[5] Gervasio Cruzat y Góngora became a Colonel in the army, and in the spring of 1730 was dispatched to America to take over the government of the Province of New Mexico.
[4] Gervasio Cruzat y Gongora took office as Governor of New Mexico in 1731, succeeding Juan Domingo de Bustamante.
Records from Cruzat's term as governor include many cases dealing with questions of cattle and land, indicating that the economy of New Mexico was prospering.
[7] Cruzat reluctantly permitted Fray José de Irigoyen of San Ildefonso to build a new church in Santa Cruz, using Indian laborers, as a public works project for the benefit of the colony.
[7] The Pueblo leaders had become sophisticated in working within Spanish laws and dealing with officials, and Cruzat often gave them his support.
[12] Cruzat issued a Bando to the alcades mayores of New Mexico asking them to notify their people of an expedition that would leave Galisteo on 30 March 1732 for the salt lakes.
[14] Fray Juan Mirabel, who took charge of the mission, considered that since the Jicarillas were Christians they could rightfully make war on the Comanches, who had not been converted.
[15] In 1733 Cruzat received a petition by a group of Plains Indians who called themselves "Los Genízaros" asking for a grant of land at the abandoned Sandia Pueblo.