Manuel Miera y Pacheco

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Manuel Miera y Pacheco, "soldado distinguido" of Santa Fe, widower of Barbara Torres, and son of Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco and Doña María Estefania Domínguez de Mendoza, married María Josefa Quintana, daughter of Juan Quintana and Paula Sánchez, at Santa Cruz, 24 May 1781. He had been born at Guadalupe del Paso, and gave his age as thirty-six when he enlisted in 1779. Manuel and his first wife had been wedding sponsors at Laguna in 1774.

Two children by his second wife were: Joaquin and Ignacia. The boy married Cayetana Montoya in 1824, and the girl married Ramón Trujillo in 1818.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 10304-10314.

• He served in the military. ²⁵⁰
Manuel Miera y Pachéco+ (c 1743, El Paso del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya - ).
1a. enl 11 Jan 1779, disch 15 Jan 1817, 21:836, painter, son of Bernardo de Miera y Pachéco and Estéfana Domínguez.
1d. PSF, 1785.
3a. md (1) Bárbara Torres, and they were wedding sponsors in Laguna, 25 May 1774 (M-12). He md (2) on 24 May 1781 at Santa Cruz de la Cañada María Josefa Quintana (dau of Juan Quintana and Paula Sánchez) (AASF 31:0222). Their children include Joaquín, who in 1824 in Santa Cruz md Cayetana Montoya; and Ignacia, who in 1818 in Santa Cruz md Ramón Trujillo.

From Beyond Origins - New Mexico Colonial Patriots, 1779-1783.

• Census: Spanish Colonial, in 1790, in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ³³
Don Manuel Miera, español, 52, distinguished soldier; married to María Josefa Quintana, español, 46; with two sons, ages 8 & 2; one daughter age 6; one female servant, española, and her daughter age 1.

New Mexico Spanish & Mexican Colonial Censuses, 1790 * 1823 * 1845, p. 105.

Manuel married Bárbara Antonia Torres, daughter of Diego de Torres and Maria Rafaela Baca, on 2 May 1781 in Laguna Pueblo, Nuevo México, Nueva España.^405a (Bárbara Antonia Torres was born in Sep 1753 in Río Abajo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ³⁴ and was baptized on 23 Sep 1753 in San Augustín de la Ysleta, Ysleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España ³⁴.)

Manuel next married María Josefa Quintana, daughter of Juan Bautista Quintana and María Paula Sánchez, on 24 May 1781 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁵² (María Josefa Quintana was born in Jan 1763 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and was baptized on 23 Jan 1763 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: 2 May 1781, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁴⁸
Don Manuel Miera y Pacheco (37), soldado estinguido of the Presido, widowed of Doña Bárbara Torres, son of Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheo and Doña Estefana Domingues de Mendoze, españoles, and Doña María Josefa Quintana (17) of Santa Cruz, daughter of Don Juan Quintana and Doña Paul Sánchez Permission granted by the Sr. Teniete Coronel Don Juan Bautista de Anaza, Gobernador y Comandante ~ Witnesses: Pedro Tafoya (notary); Manuel Antonio Gallegos (28) and Antonio Roman Sánchez (29), soldiers; Juan Bautista Vigil (62) and Antonio Paiz (34) of Santa Cruz.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1237.