Miguel de San Juan

  General Notes:

Miguel did not use the surname Baca, he chose San Juan. Some of his children did not use the name he chose, but used Luna or their mother's name Montoya.

Margaret Buxton also shows clear evidence that Francisco Xavier de Sotomayor can not be the father of Miguel de San Juan and either of Juana's other daughters. She questions the possibility of a link between Juana Baca's mother, Ana Moreno de Lara and Captain Diego de Luna. Ana Moreno de Lara was listed as living in Isleta del Paso with Captain Luna's family in the 1692 Census. Juana Baca, 18 and her sister, Luisa Baca, 17, are in their father, Captain Critóbal Baca's house in Pasaxe in 1692. Miguel de San Juan was born in 1692. Captain Baca was most likely serving at the Presidio of Nuestra Senora de la Limpia Concepción del Pasaxe, Nueva Viscaya. ~ The Other Luna Family¹⁹¹

"Excerpt from the Town of Artrisco Land Grant, Reel 17, Case 45, Frame 758 (old UNM Series: ... appeared Doña Ysabel Montoya, widow of the standard bearer Miguel de San Juan ... Doña Ysabel Montoya stated, to wit: that she gave and did give by royal sale to said Dona Josefa Baca a suerta of land that she has which she obtained as a gift from his (her husband, Miguel de San Juan) mother, Doña Juana Baca, and her brother Antonio de Luna. ..."
The Other Luna Family, pg. 15 ¹⁹¹

  Noted events in his life and other information:

• Dates & Events: ²⁵²
Miguel de San Juan was born in Guadalupe del Paso, and was living in Bermalillo whe he married Isabel Montoya in 1710. In 1716 Miguel took part in the Moqui campaign of that year. Their daughter Margarita de Luna married Esteban Durán.
ONMF, pg. 383

• Education. ¹⁹¹
Miguel de San Juan shows up as a notary on prenuptial investigations which show that he could read and write.

• Military Service. ¹⁹¹
After Coronado by Alfred B Thomas, pg. 91

28 Aug 1715, Settlers who went with General Don Juan Paez Hurtado on a capaign against the Apaches has Miguel de San Juan of Bernalillo listed second on the list.

30 Aug 1715 at Pueblo San Lorenzo de Picuris: Review of soldiers, Militia Men, Presidials under General Juan Paez Hurtado, Copmmanding Officer of the Expedition to the Plains. Settlers from Alburquerque:
#2 Sublieutenant Miguel de San Juan, fully armed, 4 horses, 1 mule, lacking leather jacket.

Miguel married Ysabel Montoya, daughter of Diego de Montoya and María Josefa de Hinojos, on 8 May 1710 in Bernalillo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.¹⁹¹ (Ysabel Montoya was born after 1692 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁸⁷ and died in Bernalillo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial, 28 Apr 1710, Bernalillo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.