Baltasar Trujillo

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Baltazar Trujillo resided at Pojoaque in 1710 when he declared himself to be a native of New Mexico and forty years old. He belonged to the Conquistadora Confraternity. He purchased lands in Taos which he sold back to the original owner around the year 1725.

His known children by his wife Nicolasa de la Cruz Espinosa were:
María, born 29 Dec 1704
Pablo Manuel, 31 Jan1709, who married Francisca Márquez at Pojoaque in Sep 1728.

As a "widower of Pojoaque," Baltasar married "Ynez, widow of Albuquerque," on May 8 May 1728. He and this Ynez González Bas were sponsors together in 1739. He died at Pojoaque, 17 Jun 1740.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 297

Ynez Gonzales Bas, born in 1703, married Cristóbal (or Juan Antonio) Varela Jaramillo in 1718, and then Baltasar Trujillo in 1728 (DM, 1718, no. 16; 1728, no. 11).

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 360

• Background Information:
In records of a land dispute between San Ildefonso Pueblo and Spanish settlers, Baltazar de Trujillo [ONMF: 297, 396], husband of Ynéz González Bas [ONMF: 189, 297, 396] was identified as the son-in-law of Capitán Juan González [ONMF: 189]

Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel

Source: SANM I: 1351, p. 42.

• Background Information: ¹⁵⁶⁷
On 13 Mar 1706, Baltasar Trujillo gave testimony in Santa Fé about the allegations of bigamy against Diego Arias de Quirós. Baltasar Truijillo said he was forty years of age, a mestizo, married to Nicolasa de Espinosa and the legitimate son of Juan Truijillo, mestizo, and Elvira Jiménez, mestiza [AGN, Inquisición, t. 735. ff. 467r-467r, Declaration of Baltasar Trujillo, 13 Mar 1706, Villa de Santa Fé).

"Revised Trujillo Family Genealogy," Herencia, 19:2, p.2

Baltasar married María Nicolasa de la Cruz Espinosa. ²⁵² (María Nicolasa de la Cruz Espinosa was born about 1670 in Río Arriba, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

Baltasar next married Ynez González Bas, daughter of Juan González Bas Capitán and María Micaela López del Castillo, on 18 May 1728 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.^,287 (Ynez González Bas was born in 1703 in Bernalillo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵² and was baptized on 31 Jan 1703 in Nuestro Padre San Francisco, Bernalillo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ³²⁴.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
26 Apr 1728, Alburquerque. Captain Baltasar Trujillo (55) of Pojoaque, idowed of Nicolasa Espinosa buried in Santa Cruz, son of Juan Trujillo and Elvira Jimenez, natives of New Mexico, both deceased, and Ynez Gonzales Bas (30), widow of Juan Antonio Jaramillo buried in Alburquerque, daughter of Captain Juan Gonzales Bas and María López del Castillo living in Alameda.

~ Witnesses: Juan Manuel Chirinos, notary in Nambe; Tomás de Vaargas Machuca (60), Martín Fernandez (47), both married. In Alburquerque: Juan Varela (60), Martín Hurtado (56), both married.

Pair married 8 May 1728.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1930