Coat of Arms of the City of Guadalajara. at Nochistlan; but in 1533 the town was removed to the Jacotlan Valley, near Cuquio, and finally in 1541 placed south of the river, in Tonalá. Even in 1533 the transfer was talked of, the latter place being deemed more convenient, but Guzman objected, preferring to hold that region for himself.[1]
During this time La Purificacion on the Colima frontier was also founded by Guzman, all with an eye to defeating his archenemy in case of open rupture.[2]
While thus engaged in establishing his authority in the south of New Galicia, Guzman was beset with serious difficulties from the first. The second audiencia had come with instructions to proceed with the residencia against the former president and oidores, and while hastening to seize the property of the
- ↑ Mota Padilla, Conq. N. Gal., 55, 77, asserts that in 1530, when Guzman marched northward, a garrison under Juan de Oñate was left in Nochistlan, and that on December 3, 1530, Guzman issued at Culiacan a commission to organize that settlement. The latter date is evidently wrong, as Guzman was in January 1531 still at Chametla. The statements made by members of the expedition, however, agree that Guadalajara was established after the founding of Compostela. 1a Rel. Anón., 292-3; 3a Rel. Anón., 459-60; Lopez, Rel., in Pacheco and Cárdenas, xiv. 461. By a cédula of November 8, 1529, the king granted the city of Guadalajara a coat of arms, described in Tello, Hist. N. Gal., 371-3; Beaumont, Crón. Mich., iv. 176-7; Alegre, Hist. Comp. Jesus, i. 81 passim; Mota Padilla, Conq. N. Gal, 109, 188-9; Calle Mem. y Not., 90; Gonzalez Dávila, Teatro Ecles., i. 178-9. Some writers, as Beaumont, Crón. Mich., iii. 498, 557-8, and Navarrete, Hist. Jal, 59, mention another intermediate transfer of Guadalajara. Ogilby, 167, writes Guadalarra, Laet, 1633, Guadalajara; Jefferys, 1776, Kiepert, 1852, Guadalaxara. Cartog. Pac. Coast, MS., ii. 492.
- ↑ Authorities differ between 1533 and 1536 as the date. Tello, Hist. N. Gal, 360, gives a list of 21 settlers. Ogilby, 1671, gives this place as Purificatio; Dampier, 1699, Purification; Laet, 1633, Purification and Acatlan; West-Ind. Spieghel, 1624, Purificatio and east Ycatlan; Jefferys, 1776, la Purificacion; Kiepert, 1852, Purificacion. Cartog. Pac. Coast, MS., ii. 484.
