Eighteenth-century items about the mission of Ácoma so far available are brief and laconic. In 1703, General Cubero was having a difficult experience with the Moquis, who were trying to incite the Zuñis to revolt, with the result that both pueblos were eventually abandoned to the aborigines. Padre Miranda wrote from Ácoma that the Indians of that pueblo and of Sía wished to go to the rescue of the priest, but that he would not allow it, fearing immediate death for the padre if the Zuñis heard of an approaching force.[91] In 1713 both Ácoma and Laguna threatened their resident priest with death because of his interference with their native rituals. In a report made by Father Menchero in 1744 we are told that The Ácoma mission is thirty-four leagues from the capital toward the west. It has one hundred and ten families. It is situated upon a large rock on which they have made reservoirs for water which they carry to the top. A priest ministers to them and applies himself to the catechizing of the Indians who come peaceably to the mission. Ten years later, from a letter by Father Trigo,[92] we glean a few more scraps of information. Five leagues from the mission of the Laguna in the same western direction is situated the mission of San Estévan, upon a large rock whose height is more than 300 _varas_, and on the top, which is very flat, is the church, the convent, and all the houses. They give the priest all the mutton which is needed, a bell ringer, a porter, two boys for the cell; the cook, and two millers for the wheat, of which they sow ... three _fanegas_[93] for the Padre and an _almud_[94] of maize at a distance of four leagues from the mission on ground belonging to temporal authority, because they have neither irrigation nor other land for this work. So with these labors and not having any tithes (_ovenciones_) the Minister always lives in want.[95] The church was more or less neglected through the years, but in 1710 it was restored and the mission was again opened, with the patron saint changed from San Estévan to San Pedro.[96] In 1776 Father Garces, on his journey from Mojave to Moqui wrote from Oraibí that there was “a padre at Ácoma and one at Laguna.”[97]