The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912 Page: 122
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No mention whatever is made of any Spaniards having visited it
after the general outbreak and prior to their departure from the
province, nor was there any Indian testimony taken that throws
any light on the events attending the revolt there, except the state-
ment of an Indian ambassador at the pueblo of Jemez on August
10 to the effect that all the Spaniards at Cochiti, Santo Domingo,
and San Felipe had been killed.1
For the outbreak at San Felipe the only other contemporary
reference is the statement of Otermin that when passed by him
on his retreat down the river, that pueblo was found deserted.2
The testimony of two natives of San Felipe who were captured
the next year by Otermin, however, is interesting not only in re-
gard to the events as they occurred there, but also for the light
that it throws on the whole situation. These two, Indians, who
were brothers, and whose names were Juan and Francisco Lorenzo,
were living at the time of the revolt on a small ranch near the
pueblo of San Felipe. Accoring to their testimony, on Saturday,
"the glorious day of San Lorenzo," they both went peaceably and
as Christians to the pueblo to hear the padre say mass. But they
were surprised on reaching San Felipe to be seized and held as
prisoners in the plaza, while a number of the natives set out for
Santo Domingo to kill, as was told them, the alcalde mayor, the
missionaries, and the rest of the people who might be there, as
indeed they did. And that same evening, near prayer time, there
arrived at the pueblo their elder brother named BartolomB Nar-
anjo, whom the Indians approached and asked if he would be on
their side in helping to kill all the Spaniards and missionaries, to
which their brother replied: "You are crazy in what you do, and
I do not wish to join you because it is not right." Thereupon the
other Indians seized him and "treacherously" killed him. And
these Indians stated further that the cause of the revolt as they
heard it was that Francisco Xavier, and the sarjentos mayores
Luis de Quintana and Diego L6pez would not let them alone, and
burned their estuf as, and that the order to revolt came to San
'Auto of Otermin, in Auttos tocactes, 18.
2It is an interesting fact that immediately after the revolt a number
of pueblos, as San Felipe, Tesuque, Sandia, and others were deserted by
the natives, who betook themselves through fear to the mountains and
mesas, where at a safe distance they made jeer of the Spaniards as they
proceeded on their retreat.122
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Texas State Historical Association. The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912, periodical, 1912; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101056/m1/127/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.