Serial Number
275-03561
Title
Juan de Dios Pena-to-Facundo Melgares. Concerning navajo hostilities and French or americans from Louisiana.
Author(s)
Pena, Juan de Dios (Alcalde)
Date
11-04-1818
Documentation
Taos. November 4, 1818. 2p. Letter. Original. Signed.
Summary
Reporting that 65 settlers left Taos to participate in Navajo's campaign, but that the best horses had been taken on an unauthorized buffalo hunt, and, an expedition of 20 men to the Cayguas to search for foreigners from Luciana. (R. Jackson) (1981)
Persons
Pena, Juan de Dios (Alcalde)
Melgares, Facundo (Governor)
Sanches, Manuel (Militia Sergeant)
Places
Taos (Pueblo)
Luciana
Ethnic Groups
Cayguas
Navajos
First Location
AZU Film 2182 rl. 19 fr. 0433-0434
Original Location
SANM, Santa Fe, Span.Arch. 1621-1821, rl. 019 ff. 0433-0434
Notes
Twitchell Vol. II, no. 2768.
Rights
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