The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912 Page: 125
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Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico in 1680 125
to revolt, and had set the night of August 10 to execute it.'
About mid-day of the 10th of August an ambassador2 of the
enemy rode up to the pueblo singing of victory and announcing to
the Indians there that already the Governor and all the Spaniards,
including the missionaries, women, and children from Taos to
Santo Domingo were dead; that their houses and fields had all
been robbed; that only the Rio Abajo country was yet to be de-
vastated; and that even that district was at that very moment be-
ing sacked by the Indians." "Since none of the Spaniards will
remain alive," he said, "because the number of their enemies, com-
posed of the heathen Apaches, as well as the Christian Indians, is
greater, seize, therefore, your arms and kill the Spaniards and
friars who are here."4 The brief and terse statement of Granillo,
"and this in fact the said Jemez Indians did,"5 suggests all too
plainly with what receptiveness the message was received by these
people who for a number of years had longed and planned to
revolt.6
In view of the manifest danger in which they were, leaving one
of the missionaries dead in the pueblo,7 Granillo, in company with
the father preacher, Fray Francisco Mufioz, and three" other sol-
diers attempted to escape. The Indians, however, who had already
'Auto of Garcia, in Auttos tocantes, 18. Musa was evidently confused
in his dates, for as has been seen the outbreak was planned for August 11.
2This was doubtles, the bearer of the news sent out from Tesuque the
evening before, following the arrest of Catua and Omtua in that pueblo.
8This statement of the messenger in regard to the death of the Gov-
ernor and all the people of the northern districts was of course untrue.
It is interesting, however, in showing the confidence which the Indians
had in the undertaking, for according to his own statement, this Indian
believed that the northern pueblos had by that time already carried out
their part of the general plans, and that those in Rio Abajo, to whom the
message had come later, were also fulfilling their part.
'Auttos tocantes, 27.
'Ibid.
*"Declaracion de un Yndio Xptiano de los alsados que se cojio en el
Camino," in Auttos tocantes, 13.
7"Notificasion y Prision," in Auttos tocantes, 14.
8According to the statement of Garcia (notificasion y Prision," in
Auttos tocantes, 14) there was only one soldier, named Joaquin de
Bonilla, with Granillo at the time that Garcia 'met him, though in a
subsequent auto (Auttos tocan.tes, page 17) he says there were three
soldiers. This latter statement of Garcia's agrees with Granillo's own
account (Ibid., 27).
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