On their return to New Mexico from El Paso after the 1680 Pueblo
Revolt, the New Mexican settlers were confronted with continuous
raids by hostile Indians tribes, disease and an inhospitable
landscape. In spite of this, in the early and mid-eighteenth
century, the New Mexicans went about their daily lives as best they
could, as shown in original documents from the time. The documents
show them making deals, traveling around the countryside and to and
from El Paso and Mexico City, complaining about and arguing with
each other, holding festivals, and making plans for the future of
their children. It also shows them interacting with the presidio
soldiers, the Franciscan friars and Inquisition officials, El Paso
and Chihuahua merchants, the occasional Frenchman, and their Pueblo
Indian allies. Because many of the documents include oral
testimony, we are able to read what they had to say, sometimes
angry, asking for help, or giving excuses for their behavior, as
written down by a scribe at the time. This book includes fifty-four
original handwritten documents from the early and mid-eighteenth
century. Most of the original documents are located in the Spanish
Archives of New Mexico, although some are from the Bancroft Library
at the University of California at Berkeley, the Archivo General de
la Nacion in Mexico City, and elsewhere. They were selected for
their description of Spanish Colonial life, of interest to the many
descendants of the characters that appear in them, and because they
tell a good story. A translation and transcription of each document
is included as well as a synopsis, background notes, and
biographical notes. They can be considered a companion, in part, to
Ralph Emerson Twitchell's 1914 two volumes, "The Spanish Archives
of New Mexico," summarizing the documents of the Spanish Archives
of New Mexico, now available in new editions from Sunstone Press.
LINDA TIGGES, PhD, is a retired land planner. While working in the
City of Santa Fe in the 1980s and 1990s, she assisted in drafting
and staffing the City's Archaeological Review ordinance, prepared
and worked on State Historic Preservation grants and prepared City
publications on architectural history and Spanish Colonial Santa
Fe. She is a New Mexico certified historian with the New Mexico
Historic Preservation Division. Written material includes archival
research on historic properties, published work on the Santa Fe
presidio in "All Trails Lead to Santa Fe, An Anthology
Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Santa Fe,
New Mexico in 1610," from Sunstone Press, as well as articles for
the "New Mexico Historical Review" and the "New Mexico Genealogical
Society Journal." Her special interest is early and mid-eighteenth
century Spanish Colonial documents. She has bachelor's and master's
degrees in history from Iowa State University and the University of
North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, and a PhD in Administration from
Iowa State University. J. RICHARD SALAZAR retired from the New
Mexico State Records Center and Archives in 1996 as Director of the
Archival Services Division of that agency. Since that time he has
been conducting historical research for the various acequia
associations of northern New Mexico in their attempt to determine
their acequia priority dates. He has worked with New Mexico's
archival documents, including the land grant records, for over
forty years.
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