Bartolomé de Montoya
- Born: 1572, Cantillana, Castilla, España 252
- Marriage: María de Zamora in Tezcoco, Nueva España
- Died: After 5 Mar 1609 252
 Noted events in his life and other information:
• Dates & Events: 274,314
Bartolome de Montoya came to New Mexico December 24, 1600
He was decribed as short of stature, black bearded and 28 years old in Dec. of 1600
Bartolomé came to San Gabriel del Yunque with his wife María, sons Francisco, Diego and José and daughters Lucia and Petonia as a member of the second wave of 65 settlers and twenty five servants with their cattle and equipment.
ONMF pgs. 54, 77
Bartolomé was among the Loyalists who stayed in New Mexico.
• Name: 314
From this family the Montoya surname was established in New Mexico.
• Information: 252
Bartolome de Montoya came with his entire family in 1600. He was a native of Cantillana (near Sevilla, {Spain}], the son of Francisco de Montoya......His wife was Maria de Zamora, born in Mexico City at San Sebastian, the daughter of Pedro de Zamora who was a resident of that city and former Alcalde Mayor of Oaxaca {Mexico}. Her mother's name was Agustina Abarca. ["Archivos General de la Nacion, Mexico: 1. Inquisicion - {Photo copies in the Coronado Library at the University of New Mexico. Some "Inquisicion" references by page, instead of foja, are transcript copies owned by Dean Scholes, to be also found in the Library of Congress and Ayer Collection}, t. 462, f. 351]. Maria had married Montoya at Texcoco, [ibid.] and by the time they joined Onate's colony they had three boys and two girls, who were all under sixteen in 1600; Francisco, Diego, Jose, Lucia and Pertronila. ["Don Juan de Onate and the Founding of New Mexico" by George P. Hammond, Santa Fe, 1927]. Bartolome was an Alferez in 1609 when he escorted a band of friars from Zacatecas to Santa Fe. ["Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla: 5. Contaduria; {transcript copies loaned to Fray Angelico Chavez by Dean France V. Scholes}, leg. 711, Data]. This is the last we hear of him.
Bartolomé married María de Zamora, daughter of Pedro de Zamora and Agustina Abarca, in Tezcoco, Nueva España. (María de Zamora was born about 1575 in Tezcoco, Cuidád de Méjico, Nuevo Espána and died after 1609.)
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