Juan Pérez de Bustillo

  General Notes:

ONMF 86-87

  Noted events in his life and other information:

• Dates & Events: ^252,274Juan and his family were a members of Don de Oñate party that came to settle New Mexico in 1598.

He was listed as 40 years old, the son of Simón Pérez and a native of Mexico City. He was described as small in stature, gray-bearded and having a wart on the left side of his face. With him came his wife, two sons and seven daughters. One son, Simón, was listed as a soldier.

Juan's wife was María de la Cruz. Both Juan and his wife were viivng in 1626. Besides Simón, they had another son named Diego. Dieg adopted the surname of Santa Crus. Their known daughters were Ana, fifty in 1631 and married to Asencio de Arechuleta; Yman, who was forty in 1631, and married to Antonio Baca; Beatriz, who was thirty-eight in 1631 and married to Alonso Varela.
~The Origins of New México Families, pg. 87

Oñate lead a party into Kansas to search for the legendary Gran Quivara. Upon his return, he found that 400 colonists had deserted San Gabriel, the Spanish colony begun by the Oñate party. Those who remained were considered loyalists, and stayed on to raise their families in New Mexico. Juan was among the Loyalists who stayed in New Mexico. ~New México's First Colonie

• Family: ²³⁹

• Simon Pérez de Bustillo
• Ana Pérez de Bustillo
• Catalina Pérez de Bustillo
• Diego de Santa Cruz
• Yumar Pérez de Bustillo
• Beatriz Pérez de Bustillo
• (Daughter #5) Pérez de Bustillo
• (Daughter #6) Pérez de Bustillo
• Daughter #7) Pérez de Bustillo

• He was described physically. ²⁵¹
He was small of stature, swarthy, gray bearded with a wart on the left side, 40 years of age.

Juan married María de la Cruz about 1575. (María de la Cruz was born about 1560 and died after 1626.)