Antonio de Anza

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Mission 2000 - A Searchable Database of Spanish Mission Record.
Juan Bautisata de Anaza was the son of Juan Bautista de Anaza and María Rosa Becerra Nieto of Fronteras, Nueva Navarra, Nueva España. His paternal grandparents were Antonio de Anaza, a pharmacist, and Lucía de Sassoeta of Hernani, Guipuzcoa, España. His maternal grandparents were Antonio Becerra Nieto and Gregoria Gómez de Silva of Janos, Nueva España. His father, of the same name, was killed by Apaches 9 May 1740, when Juan Bautista was only three years of age.

• Information:
Antonio was a pharmacist, buinessman and local officholder who had lived his whole life in Hernani, Guipuzcoa, España.

John L. Kessell, "Juan Bautista de Anaza, Father and Son - Pillars of New Spain's Far North."

Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American West, 2004, UNM Press, p. 34

• Background Information: ¹⁵⁸⁷
Antonio had been an apprentice of Dr. Agustín Zabala, and he became good friends with the Agustín and his wife, Catalina de Sasoeta. Itis through this couple that Antonio met his wife, Lucía Sasoeta who was Catalina's cousin. Lucía's parents were Juanes de Sasoeta and Josefa Barcaiztegui. Lucía and Antonio married on 8 Feb 1691, along with four other couples. Lucía was 32 years old at the time.

Antonio was elected to the office of regidor, "alderman" or "town councilman" for three different times (1695, 1715, 1721). He was chosen to be mayordomo y juez ordinario, or city manager and ordinary judge (1713). He was also chosen as mayordomo tesorero de haber y rentas, or "administrative treasure of property and revenues," (1699, 1701).

Juan Bautista de Anza: Basque Explorer in the New World, 1693-1740, pp. 22, 26-29

Antonio married Lucía de Sassoeta, daughter of Juanes de Sassoeta and Josefa de Barcaiztegui.¹⁵⁸⁷ (Lucía de Sassoeta was born in 1658 in Hernani, Guipuzcoa, España ¹⁵⁸⁷ and died in Hernani, Guipuzcoa, España.)