[3] Mendoza traveled to the Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial México) with his wife and children, plus a maid and three servants (one woman and two man).
He issued a law to punish all men who wounded, killed or mistreated "infidel" woman and boys, fining them with 300 silver pesos and six years in exile.
Later, a group of seven Comanches traveled to Taos Pueblo to trade tobacco and they explained to Mendoza that their people would visit the valley when the snows abandoned the mountains.
When the news reached to Mendoza, he decided to establish a presidio (fort) in the north to protect the population of Taos from the possible French invasion, and did so in the Jicarilla Apache's abandoned settlement.
[4] Mendoza was replaced by Joaquín Codallos y Rabal as colonial governor of Santa Fe de Nuevo México province in 1743.
One of his daughters, Francisca Micaela, around 14 years old at that time, married Joaquín Codallos y Rabal after he assumed the governor office of the province.