The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912 Page: 127
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Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico in 1680 127
in the events as related in the Spanish documents of 1680, since
it was too far away to successfully co-operate with the valley
pueblos. Otermin, however, learned from the Indian besiegers of
Santa FP that all the Spaniards there were dead.' Vetancur says
the padre there in 1680 was Father Lucas Maldonado.2
(6) Th.e Number of Spaniards Escaping from these Pueblos.
-As to the number of Spaniards who escaped from this jurisdic-
tion, it is almost impossible to make an estimate. The only ones
mentioned are those who were able to do so through the aid of
Garcia and Granillo, who spent the whole night of August 10
after their meeting, and the next day, in assisting refugees to a
place of safety, though their activities were confined chiefly to the
district of Rio Abajo." It is very improbable, therefore, that
many of the Spaniards who assembled at Isleta were settlers liv-
ing outside of the Rio Abajo jurisdiction.
5. The Revolt of the Tigua Pueblos of Rio Abajo
(1) Location and Population of these Pueblos.-In 1680 the
Tigua Indians were divided into two geographic groups, one occu-
pying, as has already been noted, the pueblos of Taos and Picuris,
the most northerly of the New Mexican pueblos, and the other
located further south on the Rio Grande, and occupying the
pueblos of Puaray, Sandia, Alameda, and Isleta. The largest of
these latter pueblos was Sandia, with three thousand inhabitants,
while only one league north was the small pueblo of Puaray with
two hundred Indians, and about the same distance south was the
pueblo of Alameda, with about three hundred inhabitants.4 Eight
leagues south of Alameda, where a small stream, with the Rio
Grande, enclosed a fertile tract containing seven Spanish ranchos,
was the pueblo and Spanish convent of Isleta, .containing a native
population of two thousand Indians. It was in this latter pueblo, as
we shall see, that the Spanish inhabitants of Rio Abajo assembled
after the revolt under the Lieutenant-General, Alonzo Garcia, and
1"Auto (de Otermfin)," in Auttos tocantes, 32-33.
2Vetancur, Chronica de la Provincia del Santo Evangelio de Mexico, 101.
Auttos tocantes, 28.
'Vetancur, Chronica de la Provincia del Santo Evangelio de Mexico, 99.
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