Mateo Trujillo

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Mateo Trujillo was a soldier, native of New Mexico, who gave his age as thirty in 1694, forty in 1704, and fifty-four in 1714. He was too young, apparently, to be the Mateo of the 1680-81 Revolt lists, yet might be the same man. In 1694 he received a grant of land south of Santa Clara Pueblo, and in 1703 bought additional property at Santa Fe while soldiering in Santa Fe; he also sold a Santa Fe house and lot in 1722.

In the Indian Uprising of 1696, a corpse found with those of the martyred Padres at San Ildefonso was thought to be his; however, he reached Santa Fe, shoeless and almost naked, after what was termed a miraculous escape. He belonged to the Conquistadora Confraternity.

Mateo's wife was María de Tapia, widow of Alonso Romero, by whom he had a daughter, Juana, married to Pedro Montes Vigil. There were also two sons: Francisco, father of José and Maríano Trujillo, who made his last will in 1754; and Agustín, father of Manuela, Manuel, and Antonio Trujillo.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 298

Mateo Trujillo and María de Tapia had a son Agustín who married Micaela Martín of Santa Cruz, widow of Cristóbal Olguín, in 1696; the boy had been born in the Rio Abajo but was a soldier of Santa Fe at this time (DM, 1696, no. 27).

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 16934-16937.

• Background Information:
"Mateo Trujillo was identified as an uncle of Lorenzo Trujillo; Spanish Archives of New Mexico, I: 1034, Matheo Truxillo through power of attorney from Lorenzo Truxillo, conveyance of a rancho in Santa Cruz to Pedro Vigil, executed in Santa Fe, 1724. Lorenzo Trujillo was a son of Bartolomé Trujillo and a grandson of Cristóbal Trujillo and María de Sandoval y Manzanares. In September 1706, Mateo Trujillo gave his age as 50, indicating he was born circa 1656. Fray Angélico Chávez, Fray Angélico Chávez, New Mexico Roots, Ltd, An Addendum, Part II," in New Mexico Genealogist, 49:2 (June 2010),75\endash 76, DM 1706, September 30, Santa Fe, Juan García de la Riva and Feliciana Rael de Aguilar."

Beyond Origins - Trujillo.

• Census: Spanish Colonial, between 22 Dec 1692 and 2 Jan 1693, in El Paso del Norte, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁸⁷
Mateo Trujillo, married to María de Tapia, children: Agustín (12), Antonio (6), Francisco (2), Lucía (10), Juana (5), Juana de Trujillo (1); stepchildren: Diego Romero (14), José Romero (15) & Jacinta Romero (14)

To The Royal Crown Restored, the Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, Pages 33 - 99.

Mateo married María de Tapia.²⁵² (María de Tapia was born about 1648 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died before Jun 1735 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)