Gómez & Rosales Family of El Paso, Texas

Cristoval Enrriquez was one of the military leaders in New Mexico at the time of the Indian Revolt in 1680. Cristoval's name appears in various official records and he was a personal witness to the destruction and military decisions made on the escape to the south. An example follows.

La Isleta, August 14, 1680. Writ of Alonso Garcia [fol. 321r/17r/299r/1r]

These writs were presented on September 6, 1680, before His Lordship, the Lord governor and captain general. In the pueblo of La Isleta on the fourteenth day of August, 1680, Field Commander Alonso Garcia, lieutenant governor and captain general of the jurisdictions of Rio del Norte Abajo by appointment of Lord Don Antonio de Otermin, governor and captain general of these provinces of New Mexico.

I, said Lieutenant General of said jurisdictions, say that on Sunday, the eleventh of said month, general word reached us regarding the residents of the jurisdiction of Sandia. [They] were retreating with their families from the general convocation that all the Christian Indians had made to annihilate said provinces by killing all the priests and residents of them – as in effect they have achieved – since in the pueblo of Santo Domingo on the day of the glorious Saint Lawrence, they killed the Christians of said pueblo ... And the following day they killed Captain Agustin de Carbajal and Doña Damiana de Mendoza, his wife, and all his family; and likewise Sergeant Major Cristobal de Anaya and Doña Lenor de Mendoza,... continued in the pueblo of Jemez. Yet miraculously the reverend father preacher, Friar Francisco Muñoz, 7 escaped from them, together with Sergeant Major Luis Granillo, royal magistrate of the said pueblo, and three soldiers who were in his company. The whole community of the said pueblo followed them, fighting, as far as the pueblo of Zia. And had I, the said lieutenant general, not gone out to meet said ambuscade with four soldiers whom I brought with me, they could have killed said father preacher, Friar Francisco Muñoz, and Sergeant Major Luis Granillo, ... mocking us, said Christians rang the bells, with great shrieks. After I withdrew with the said two reverend fathers, the uprising grew, and it was generally said that the Lord governor and captain general, Don Antonio de Otermin, was dead,... and he signed it. Antonio de Salas14 [rubric].

Sergeant Major Luis Granillo said that, being chief bailiff of the jurisdiction of the Jemez, he was advised by an Indian named Muza, a native [fol. 322v] of said pueblo, of how all the natives of the kingdom wished to rise up, to take place on August 10 of this year at night... [He said] it is known for certain that it is a general uprising, and there are no forces to surpress it, for which reason he agrees with the preceding opinions, and he signed it. Luis Granillo [rubric].

Sergeant Major Cristobal Enriquez said that he agrees with the rest of the above opinions and gave this as his opinion, and he signed it. Cristobal Enriquez [rubric].