Juan Váldez

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Juan Lorenzo Valdes married Josefa de Salazar at Santa Cruz on May 2, 1729. With Ignacio and Rosalia Valdes he was sued by Torres people regarding some land in Rio Arriba. This Rosalía could well be the Rosa Valdes who acted as a sponsor with her son, Juan Valdes, on January 7, 1739, and was very likely a sister to Juan Lorenzo and the others.

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Juan married María Teresa Martín Serrano, daughter of Antonio de Jesus Martín Serrano and Ana María Domínguez de Mendoza, on 16 May 1743 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.³²⁵ (María Teresa Martín Serrano was born in 1727 in Abiquiú, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)