There seems to have been some subdividing of original lots. During the governorship of Hita Salazar, Sergeant Major Pedro de Aranda y Avellaneda bought a lot within the compound of the government houses close to the governor’s mansion, although he had applied for a different one in the compound of the treasury and royal warehouse. The royal officials not only sold it to him but supplied him with the materials to build a house next to the governor’s. The next governor, Marques Cabrera, managed to block Aranda’s building there, but not on the lot beside the treasury. Displeased with what he called the deterioration of the neighborhood, the governor turned the gubernatorial mansion into a public inn and requisitioned for his residence the house of Ana Ruiz, a widow, two blocks away. [Note 72: Gov. Marques Cabrera 1/25/1682 and 6/28/1683; Int. Gov. Aranda y Avellaneda 6/22/1687; Ana Ruiz 8/16/1685; Alonso de Leturiondo 4/18/1687] (Bushnell KC)