Antonio de Rivera

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Antonio de Ribera married Graciana (Prudencia) Sena on 24 Dec 1745. He bought land in Santa Fe in 1762, and both he and Graciana were very active members of the Conquistadora Confraternity. He was nineteen when he enlisted as a soldier of Santa Fe; still listed at the Presidio in 1790, he gave his age as sixty-eight, and that of his wife as forty. A son, twenty-six and single, was living with them. Antonio died 27 Feb 1794, and his wife followed, 22 Jun 1810, leaving four surviving children.

Their known children were: Matías, born 7 Mar 1750, who married Juliana de la Peña; María Josefa, born 6 Mar 1752; Viterbo, 11 Mar 1754; Manuel Antonio, 29 Jun 1756, who married Josefa Labadía, 28 Apr 1783; Antonio José, born 8 Jan 1759, and who died 30 Nov 1765; Santiago Francisco, 30 Nov 1760; Nicolasa María, 12 Sep 1748; María Rosalia, 5 Nov 1762; and Julián Rafael, 13 Apr 1765. José and Matías enlisted as soldiers in 1779.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 11953-11974

• Census: Spanish, in 1790, in Presidio de Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevol Méjico. ²⁷⁰
Household #128
Antonio Rivera, Spanish, 68 with wife, Graciana Sena, 40, a son age 26, single and a Native American servant age 16.

Spanish & Mexican Census of New Mexico, 1750-1830, p. 109

• He served in the military. ^405a
Antonio de Ribera (c 1722 - 27 Feb 1794, buried at la Castrense), enlisted 7 Mar 1741, farmer, song of Juan Felipe Rivera and María Estela Palomino Rendón of Santa Fé. Married Graciana (Prudencia) Sena ( - bured 22 Jun 1810, Parroquia) on 24 Dec 1745. Their children born and baptized in Santa Fé included:

• Nicolasa María, 12 Sep 1748
• Matías, baptized 7 Mar 1750, married Juliana de la Peña of Santa Fé
• María Josefa, baptized 6 Mar 1752
• Viterbo, 11 Mar 1754
• Manuel Antonio, 29 Jun 1756, married Josefa Labadía on 28 Apr 1783 at la Castrense
• Antonio José, Jan 1759, died young
• Santiago Francisco, 30 Nov 1760
• María Rosalía, 5 Nov 1762
• Julián Rafael, 13 Apr 1765


Spain's New Mexico Patriots in it 1779-1783 War With England During the American Revolution, p. 25
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Antonio married Graciana Prudencia Sena, daughter of Tomás Antonio de Sena and María Lucía García de Noriega, on 24 Dec 1745 in La Castrense, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ^252,392.^,509 (Graciana Prudencia Sena was born in 1725-1730 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁶²⁴ and died on 22 Jun 1810 in Río Arriba, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².)

  Marriage Notes:

Santa Fé St Francis Parish & Military Chapel of Our Lady of Light, p. 13 ³⁹²