Oñate and Ponce de León, 1596 
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[Statement of what Don Juan de Oñate and Don Pedro Ponce de León 
offer for the exploration, pacification, and settlement of New Mexico, 
1596n 
What Don Juan de Oñate offers: 
Two hundred men and over, 
equipped with everything necessary 
and provisions sufficient to reach 
the settlements, at his own expense 
and that of the said soldiers, with¬ 
out his Majesty being obliged to 
pay them any salary beyond what 
he [Donjuán] will voluntarily give 
them from his own funds. 
1500 pesos in flour and maize. 
500 pesos in wheat for planting. 
500 pesos in jerked beef. 
1000 head of cattle. 
3000 sheep for wool. 
1000 sheep for mutton. 
1000 goats. 
100 head of black cattle. 
150 colts. 
150 mares. 
Two pairs of bellows with their 
equipment of irons. 
Four pairs of bellows for mines. 
2000 pesos in iron for horse shoes 
with nails. 
500 pesos in footgear. 
500 pesos in medicine. 
600 pesos in iron tools. 19 
500 pesos of things for trading 
gifts to the Indians. 
200 pesos of paper. 
500 pesos of frieze and sackcloth. 
20 ox carts provided with every¬ 
thing necessary. 
All the above he offers to take, 
over and above the supplies and 
food for the soldiers until they 
reach the settlements, for the above- 
mentioned is not to be touched be¬ 
fore then. 
What Don Pedro Ponce de León 
offers more than Don Juan is as 
follows: 
One hundred men more, all 
mounted. 
10000 reales more. 
7000 reales more. 
2400 reales more. 
1000 more. 
2000 more. 
2000 more. 
2000 more. 
300 more. 
100 more. 
100 more. 
Four more. 
Four more. 
6000 reales more. 
4000 reales more. 
8000 reales more. 
6000 reales more. 
8000 reales more. 
1000 reales more. 
8000 reales more. 
10 more. 
Don Pedro offers the same. 
