In the name of Almighty
God, Know all who shall see this will that I, Tomas Madrid, retired Lieutenant
of his royal garrison of the villa of Santa Fe, finding myself sick but of
sound of judgment and in case God remembers me, I order my will.
I commend my soul to God,
who created and redeemed it with His most precious blood. I commit my body to the earth and order that
it be shrouded with the habit of my Father Saint Francis and interred in the parochial
church of my seraphic father, as a son of his third Order, in the transept.
My funeral is to be with
Mass and vigils. I order the celebration
of one hundred Masses for my soul.
I order the payment of four
pesos to the obligatory bequest; one silver peso for each.
I declare to have been
married according to the rites of our Holy Mother Church in first nuptials to Tomasa
Pineda, for four years, from this matrimony we had one son, Tomas who died.
I declare that I have been
married a second time to Josefa Micaela Mestas for the period of forty-nine
years. During this matrimony we had and
reared five children: three girls,
Gregoria, Getrudis and Maria; two boys, Christoval, deceased and Ygnacio.
I declare that I have in
this villa a house and a small portion of land described in a deed; it is my
will to leave it all to my daughter Gregoria.
I declare that I have in
the locality of Pojoaque a ranch with house and lands which I purchased as per
deed. It is my will that said house and
land be divided between my wife and my sons; half of the house to my wife and
half to my two last children; half of the land to my wife, and the other half
to my three children in equal parts.
I declare that I have
twenty-eight heads of cattle in oxen, cows and bulls and small cattle; it is my
will that they remain in my wife's possession for her maintenance and that of
her children, excepting two cows to be assigned to two youths whom I have
raised; One Jose Antonio and the other Juan Jose, both orphans. It is my will to give one to each.
I order that all furniture
and utensils within the doors of the house is my wife's for her maintenance and
that of her children.
I declare that I have a
gun, two pistols, a sword, cartridge belt.
In case the King needs them they are at his disposal; if not, it is my
will they be given to the orphan Juan Jose.
I declare that I have five
horses which remain with the bulk of the estate in my wife's possession for the
said purpose, of use for her maintenance.
I declare that I owe the
Father Chaplain eighteen silver pesos; I order they be paid.
I declare that Juan de
Urioste owes a Villa Alta blanket.
I declare that Francisco
Xavier Fragoso, resident of this villa, owes me twenty-five silver pesos; I
order them collected.
I declare as my executors
and trustees of my estate, in the first place my wife, and in the second my son
Ignacio, in order that they may keep and fulfill this last will, revoking, I do
revoke, any memorandum, testament or codicil that may have been or still is in
existence, and for is due compliance I request the First Ensign of this company
to enforce it. And I, the aforesaid, by
virtue of the faculties conferred upon me the Lt. Colonel Governor and Captain
of this Kindom, the Señor don Juan
Baptista de Anza, did interpose it, acting with two assisting witnesses for
lack of a scribe of any kind, not found in this government, on the 28th day of
March 1781, the grantor signing with me and undersigned assisting
witnesses. In testimony, Thomas Madrid
(rubric), witnesses: Jose Maldonado
(rubric), Antonio Guerrero (rubric), and Pablo Sandoval, (rubric).
References: Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Series I,
Twitchell 595, Reel 3, Frames 1271-1278.
©Henrietta M. Christmas
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