Bernabe Márquez

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Diego Márquez was accused as a major accomplice in the death of Governor Rosas, and was beheaded in Santa Fe with seven other captains in 1643. His widow, Doña Bernardina Vásquez, was still living at the estancia of Los Cerrillos in 1660 with her daughter Margarita. Their children were: Cristóbal, Pedro, Bernabé, Margarita, wife of Gerónimo Carvajal, and, perhaps, Catalina. Diego also had a natural son who was part Native American and lived as an Indian at Santo Domingo by the name of Alonso Catiti.

~Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period , p. 69, Kindle Locations 3232-3241

Bernabé Márquez was besieged by the Pueblo Indians at his ancestral place of Los Cerrillos, and was rescued on the night of 12 Aug 1680, by a force sent by Governor Otermín from Santa Fe. With him were his wife and six half-grown children, seven servants, and a brother-in-law [a Chaves] of military age. He was described in 1681 as thirty-eight or thirty-nine years old and married, a native of New Mexico, having a good, slender build, a thick beard, and chestnut hair. He was a brother of Diego Márquez. His wife was doña María de Chaves, sister of the Sargento Mayor, Don Fernando Durán y Chaves, who had escaped from Taos in 1680. Bernabé fled to Mexico City in 1683 with this brother-in-law, to get permission to abandon New Mexico for good, but turned back.

The name of his eldest son was Diego Márquez. This entire family did not return to New Mexico, presumably leaving for New Spain with the Domínguez and Pedro de Chaves clans.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 3261-3274

Bernabe married María de Chávez, daughter of Agustín Durán y Chávez and Unknown.