The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912 Page: 136
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136 Texas Historical Association Quarterly
that he and his soldiers captured an Indian revolter whom they
admonished many times "to surrender himself in peace," to which
the apostate replied that he had rather die and go to Ynficrno
than do such a thing. Accordingly the Spaniards killed him.
On the same day that G6mez returned with the report of the
revolt of the Tewa Indians the inhabitants of Los Cerrillos, who
were defending themselves in the house of the sarjento mayor,
Vernabe Marquez, near the pueblo of San Marcos,1 appealed to
Otermin for aid, which was granted them that night,2 thus mak-
ing it possible for them to join the main body of the people at
Santa Fe.s About the same time that this appeal came to Oter-
min, the news of the revolt of the Tanos, Pecos, San Marcos, and
La Cienega Indians was received.' This must have come as a
severe shock to, the Spaniards, for only a few days previous the
chiefs of these pueblos had voluntarily come to Santa F6 to make
known the plans of the Indians, and they more than any other
would naturally have been regarded as friendly to the Spanish
cause. Still later in the same day, as a fitting climax to the news
that had already been received, came the first recorded intimation
that the Indians of the whole province, having already wreaked
their vengeance on the inhabitants in the other jurisdictions, were
now making preparations to lay siege to the villa.5
The situation was now known to be critical in the extreme, and
the most energetic measures were deemed necessary in the light of
all this new information. Realizing for the first time that the
revolt was general; that the Indians had already possessed them-
selves of the property and munitions of many murdered Span-
iards, whose numbers he could not estimate, through not having
been able to receive any replies to the dispatches that he had sent
to the alcaldes in the neighboring jurisdictions; and conscious
that the churches all over the province had been profaned, and
that similar outrages were likely to occur in the church and con-
vent at Santa Fe, Otermin issued orders to the Reverend Padre
Predicador Fray Francisco G6mez de la Cadena "to consummate
"'Declarasion de un indio alsado----," in Auttos tocantes, 9.
a"Auto (de Otermin)," in Auttos tocantes, 5.
8Ibid., 32.
'Ibid., 5.
5lbid.
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