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García Rodríguez, 1618 
Proofs. 
Witness, Luís Pacheco de Figuera. 
Fourth question : This witness said that he is a grandson of a conqueror 
of New Spain, and that he has heard his fathers and other old men who 
were conquerors thereof say that García Rodriguez was an old settler, 
that he had been one of the conquerors of Cibola, and that the fact was 
common and public knowledge in the old times when many of the con¬ 
querors themselves were living. 
Gabriel Carrillo de Guzmán, witness. 
To the fourth question this witness said that he is a son and grandson 
of a conqueror, and that as such, ofttimes when all those who were con¬ 
querors but are now dead met with his fathers and grandfathers, he fre¬ 
quently heard it said that García Rodriguez had been one of the first 
settlers of New Spain, and a conqueror of the cities of Cibola and of 
California. In these activities he did at his own cost, etc. 
Petition. 
Very powerful lord: I, the bachiller Juan Nieto de Avalos, a lawyer 
before this royal Audiencia, do, in the best legal manner and form, say 
that it is within my right to attest to the qualities and services of my 
fathers, my grandfathers, and of myself, in order to come before your 
royal person and your royal Council of the Indies with a request to be 
employed in one of your royal audiencias of the Indies or in one of the 
judicial offices in one of them, or to be presented to a prebend or canon- 
ship in the cathedral church of this City of Mexico, or in that of Los 
Angeles, 39 or in whatever position you may be pleased to bestow, inasmuch 
as I am a single man, ready and capable to discharge any of these 
offices. ... 
Question V. Also, whether they know that García Rodriguez my great¬ 
grandfather was one of the first settlers of this City of Mexico in New 
Spain, and a conqueror of the Seven Cities of Cibola, where he served his 
Majesty with his arms, horses and servants. . . . 
Proof of the Merits of García Rodríguez, Great-Grandfather 
of the Bachiller Juan Nieto de Avalos. 
In the City of Mexico on the seventeenth day of the month of Novem¬ 
ber, 1578, the president and oidores of the royal Audiencia of New Spain 
being met in acuerdo in the presence of myself, Sancho López de Agurto, 
clerk of the chamber thereof, there was presented this petition and inter¬ 
rogatory containing the following questions: 
Petition. 
Very powerful lord: I, García Rodriguez, priest and presbyter in the 
benefice of the town of Tasco and the town of Tagamasapa, which is 
under the jurisdiction of your royal crown, and of the town of Camistla, 
which is under the encomienda of Alonzo Pérez, say that I am under 
necessity to present a report to your Majesty upon my personal merits 
