To my secretary of government and war,
also, for the love I bear him, I make him the gift of what he may owe me, and
more, I leave him cloth of England enough for a suit of four yards, with its
listed linings and buttons, so, that with due care and legality he may assist
my said lieutenant-general, by these presents appointed my testamentary
executor.
To the accounts which I have with the
soldiers, corporals and officers of war of this garrison, paid in full their
year in advance, and to the others, owing small sums, to pay them in full to
their satisfaction upon the settlement of their accounts.
There shall also be made an inventory of
all of my property, assigning first to my said Lieutenant-general and compadre,
Don Juan Paez Hurtado, the testamentary executor and administrator, my black
hat embellished with blue and white feathers and my silver-laced cloak line
with blue plush, and a new jerkin with grogram and silk lace and my gold case.
To my said sons I leave my mourning suit
and to the said Don Antonio Maldonado Zapata, in consideration of relationship
and friendship, I leave to him all that he may owe me on account of salary and
furthermore. I give him a pair of stockings of yellow color, embroidered with
silver, and one pair of socks.
Out of the inventory of my property when
made, there will be paid the parochial fee for the nine masses over the corpse,
to the Rev. Fr. Guardian, giving one hundred candles for the bier and fifty for
the altars and those Religious present; I believe there is chocolate of my
liking in two baskets amounting to about two hundred and twenty-five pounds,
and the balance in what he may ask to be paid in goods which may be left.
Relative to the great quantities of
supplies with which I have been supplied by the government and appear to have
come into the Villa of Santa Fe during the last year1703. I submit the bill of
exchange which I have drawn in favor of said persons. To Don Francisco Diaz
Tagle, resident of the City of Mexico, I may be indebted as to that which may
not have been paid on the salary of one hundred soldiers of the garrison of the
Villa of Santa Fe, and their year paid in advance began on the 16th
day of December of last year1703, and will end in the present year, 1704. And
for the payment of said balance I assign to said chief officer the goods of
said inventory and also 550 head of cattle. Furnishing the said soldiers as
usual from said stock and grain which are in my warehouse and in the house of
Captain Diego Arias. The portion which appears in the book of accounts, and at
La Cañada in possession of Sylvestre Pacheco, and from the one as well as from
the others said soldiers shall be supplied all of which will be administered by
my lieutenant promptly, the soldiers making to him their obligation to pay out
of their salaries, and the new Governor who shall make the payment for said
soldiers out of their salaries in the first payment to be made in the present
year 1704, in order that the said soldiers may not be in need of the necessary
support in their aid to the Royal service. For which and in compliance with
which the said soldiers shall give to my said lieutenant the notes required by
him for what may be given to them and also giving to them thirty head of cattle
each month at the pleasure of my said lieutenant.
In the same manner I declare that I am
indebted in the City of Mexico to the Captain Don Juan de Bazoco in the sum 2,189
pesos, payable at the end of the month of May of the present year. Furthermore,
I am indebted to the Count of Fresno de la Fuente as evidenced by a note of
seven hundred and some odd dollars. For the amount of my account which his
predecessor, Don Mathias de Lunaris did not collect, and for the payment of
which I ask the Captain Don Antonio de Valverde to pay the same on account of
what he owes me and to remit a bill of exchange to my said testamentary
executor to be by him enclosed with notice of my death to the said Count de
Fresno de la Fuente.
In the same manner will Don Antonio de Valverde
pay to the Captain Don Francisco Sanches de Tagle the balance due on account of
three boxes of gun-powder which was gotten on my account in Mexico from the
general contractor and the lead which I gave no ammunition for the journey,
which he will pay at the rate of one dollar and a half for gun-powder and lead.
In the same manner said Captain Antonio Valverde
will pay in from convenient for himself and when agreeable. The different
accounts furnished to the soldiers of his garrison and also for one box of soap
which, at his request, I furnished him at said garrison at Paso del Norte.
I leave in full force and effect the
testament made by me on the first day of June of last year, 1703, in the City
of Mexico, before Don Juan Valdes, Notary Public for His Majesty, in which I
declared and as to this I regent and declare as the successor of my first born son
as Marquez de la Naba Brasinas my oldest grand-son as therein stated.
I do appoint in my place my Lieutenant
general, that as soon as I may die he may govern this kingdom, the political as
well as the military, who shall give immediate notice to the Viceroy, the Duke
of Albuquerque. And in the same manner, for the discharge of this my testament
and its contents, I appoint my said Lieutenant, Juan Paez Hurtado, my
testamentary executor and the keeper of my goods. And after the discharging of
the provisions of my will, having paid and satisfied all as in the same stated,
it is my will that the remainder be remitter to my said administrators Don
Miguel de Ubilla and Don Diego Suazo y Cojales, and this I sign. While on the
campaign, in the town of Bernalillo, with the Captain Alonzo Rael de Aguilar,
my secretary of government and war, and I, the said secretary say that in my
presence it was made by the Marquez de la Naba Brazinas, present governor and
captain general of this Kingdom, and I do certify and know that His Excellency
is in his entire judgment and natural understanding which God Our Lord had been
pleased to give him, and while His Excellency is in the field, and there not
being any royal or public notary in this Kingdom and much less there acknowledge
this testament, for said reason. It was being in this place an Alcalde who
could acknowledge me, the said secretary of government to give it full faith according
to law; His Excellency signing it before me said secretary of government and
war and signing me as witnesses Lieutenant Juan De Urribarri. Don Antonio
Maldonado, Adjutant, and the Captain Feliz Martinez, who were present and duly
signed as stated. Made in the Town of Bernalillo on the seventh day of the
month of April, in the year 1704, and written upon ordinary plain paper as
there is none which is sealed at this place. Holding of no value persons and
seventy head of cattle.
And in the same manner I desire and it
is my will that, whereas, I have furnished the Captain Don Feliz Martinez what
my account books show, that my said administrator do not collect anything from
him for I give it to him for the great service and love which he has rendered
me, and this clause shall be complied with as all the others, and I sign it
before said secretary and witnesses on said day, month and year.
Moreover, I declare that I have another
mulatto slave by the name of Jose de la Cruz, whom also, on account of the time
he has served me, lovingly and willingly, I do give him his liberty, with the
understanding that he will serve my said sons Don Juan and Don Alonzo de Vargas
five years, and at the end of which time he will be at liberty. As appears by
this clause and the declaration made before a notary by my said sons that said
Jose de la Cruz has served the five years. I sign it with said secretary of
government and war and the witnesses.
The Marques de la Naba de Brazinas
(rubric)
Witnesses: Juan de Ulibarri (rubric)
Antonio Machario Maldonado Zapata
(rubric)
Felix Martinez (rubric)
Before me:
Alfonso Rael de
Aguilar (rubric) Secretary Of Government And War.
On
said day, month and year, I, the said Governor and Captain general, Marquez de
la Naba Brazinas, do say; that notwithstanding the long time since I came from
New Spain, I have ordered a great number of masses to be said for the repose of
my soul. And not withstanding this testament is closed, I desire and it is my
will to have five hundred masses, two hundred applied to the Holy Virgin of Remedies,
my protector, for the benefit of my soul, and three hundred for the souls of
the poor who died in the conquest of this kingdom and may have died up to the
present day, for which I order my testamentary executor to pay the necessary
fees out of my property, requiring a receipt for the payment of ease, and being
oppressed with the sickness which his Divine Majesty has been pleased to
afflict me. Although in my entire judgment and understanding, and not being
able to sign this clause it is done for me by the Lieutenant Juan de Uribarri,
there being present my secretary of government and war, whom I ask to certify,
and I the said secretary, being present, do say that the said Marques is in his
complete judgment and understanding and declares this clause and order for
masses. And I sign it with said Lieutenant Don Juan de Uribarri. The witnesses
being the Captain Don Fernando Duran y Chaves, Thomas Olguin and Don Bernardo
Duran y Chaves, all present.
By request of The Marques de la Naba de
Brazinas (rubric)
Juan de Uribarri
(rubric)
Fernando Duran y Chaves (rubric); Bernardo
de Chaves (rubric); Before me: Alfonso
Rael de Aguilar (rubric), Secretary Of Government And War.
Reference: Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Series I,
Twitchell 1027, Reel 5, Frames 1150-1191.
This is a copy of Twitchell's Translations of the Spanish Archives of
New Mexico.
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