José de Aragón

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
José de Aragón was a native of New México and a resident of El Paso. He married Juliana Gamboa in El Paso on 26 Feb 1996. He was twenty-two and his parents were Antonio Luján and Ana de Aragón, both deceased natives of New México. José's mother was very likely the woman who had married Francisco Campusano during the 1680 exile at El Paso. José and his mother could likely be part of the López Aragón family that was in New México prior to the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 342

• Census: Spanish, 1750, Villa de Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Josefa de Quintana, Spanish, 51, widow of José Aragón, Spanish, 4 Children: Barthólome, 25; Antonio Alberto, 19; Juan, 15; María, 11; orphan, María, 7
She lives next door to her parents, José and Antonia.

~Spanish Census of 1750, p. 76

José married Juliana Gamboa on 26 Feb 1696 in El Paso del Norte, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
7 Feb 1696, El Paso del Norte, Jose Aragon (22) of New Mexico residing at Presidio del Pilar y S. Jose, son of Antonio Lujan and Ana de Aragon, settlers of New Mexico, both deceased, and Juliana Gamboa, (17), native of New Mexico living in El Paso, parents unknow. Witnesses: Tomas Gutierrez Carrera, notary; José de Apadaca (46), soldier, and José Montaño. Pair married Feb. 26, 1696, with witnesses José Montaño and Isabel Naranjo.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 63

José married Josefa Quintana, daughter of José de Quintana and Antonia Luján Domínguez. (Josefa Quintana was born about 1699 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España,²⁴⁷ died before 27 Apr 1744 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁸¹ and was buried on 27 Apr 1744 in San Felipe de Neri, Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁸¹.)