Juan Páez Hurtado

  Noted events in his life and other information:

• Padrinos: ⁴²⁴
His baptismal padrion was Juan Moreno Bernal.

• Dates & Events: ⁴²⁴
On the death of Don Diego de Vargas, 20 Apr 1704, Juan Páez Hurtado wrote to Vargas's son-in-law. He wrote that he had been in New Spain for seventeen years. Juan was as at Tlapujahua with Vargas, and Juan's daughter, Rosa María López in 1699, that she was born there. She stated that her parents were Jan Páez Hurtado and Pascuala, gave her age as fourteen or fifteen.

In 1692, he went to El Paso, and was the aléfrez. He arrived with colonists at Santa Fé on 9 May 1695, and Governor Vargas gave him the responsibility of overseeing the settlement of Villa Nueva de Santa Cruz de los Españoles Mexicanos del Rey Nuestro Señor do Carlos Segundo.

From October 1696 through January 1698, members of the Páez Hurtado expedition gave damning testimony concerning how their leader had contrived family units and enriched himself by taking allowances for persons who never took part in the expedition, which led to his arrest on 20 October 1697, but a trial never followed.

Vargas granted Páez Hurtado lands between Pojoaque and Nambe pueblos on 2 March 1704. Vargas made his last will in 1704 and made Páez Hurtado his attorney and executor in New México. Vargas died on 8 April 1704, and Páez Hurtado said he had benne at the head of the dying man's bed until he expired. He called Vargas the "father to all residents, and even more so to me."

Juan Páez Hurtado acted as interim governor after the death of Vargas, until 10 March 1705, when Governor Francisco y Cuervo y Valdéz reached Santa Fé. Cuervo y Valdéz named Páez Hurtado as lieutenant governor. Páez Hurtado again acted as interim governor in 1713, 1714-1715, and again in January 1717. In 1724 he was named lieutenant general and lieutenant governor. He was recorded as being in charge of the Rio Abajo area in 1734 and 1736.
Juan Páez Hurtado Expedition, 1695, pgs. 3-11

Juan married Pascuala Antonia López Vera. (Pascuala Antonia López Vera died in 1693 in El Paso del Norte, Nuevo Méjico. Nueva España ⁴²⁴ and was buried in Convento de San Francisco, El Paso del Norte, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴²⁴.)

Juan next married Teodora García de la Riva, daughter of Miguel García de la Riva and Micaela de Velasco, on 30 Jun 1704. (Teodora García de la Riva was born about 1688 in Xochimilco, Nueva España, died in 1736 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴²⁴ and was buried on 17 Nov 1736 in La Castrense. Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴²⁴.)