José Mariano Hilario de la Peña

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
José Maríano de la Peña was born in Mexico City, the son of Juan Antonio de la Peña and María Antonia Álvarez. On 10 Mar 1783, he married María Soledad Gutiérrez. In 1785 he declared that he had been brought to New Mexico, when eight years old, by a Don Baltasar (illegible). In 1789 he was executor of the will of Clemente Gutiérrez, his father-in-law. He was living at Pajarito in 1790, when he was described as a native of Mexico City, thirty-one years old, and a merchant by profession. His Gutiérrez wife was twenty-six. With them was a brother, twenty-one, also born in Mexico City. A census in 1802-3 named him, his wife, and four children: Maríana, Lorenzo, Rafael, and Bartolomé.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 256

• He appeared on the Spanish census in 1802 in Pajarito, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Hacienda de Pajarito

Don Manuel Ruví and doña Juana Gutierres

Don Mariano de la Peña and his wife doña María Soledad Gutiérrez and their sons: Lorenzo Peña, Rafael Peña, Bartolomé Peña: daughter: Mariana Peña; and servant Rosa Gutierres.

Don Lorenzo Gutierres; doña Apolonia Baca, his mother; doña Candelaria García, his wife; sons: José Matías Gutierres, Juan José Gutierres; daughters: Juana Apolonia Gutierres; nieces: Dolores García and Francisca dela Peña; servants: María Savina, Josefa, Rosalía

Spanish & Mexican Censuses, 1750-1830, p. 143

• He appeared on the Spanish census in 1790 in Pajarito, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ³³
Doña Polonia Baca, Spanish, widow age fifty-three; one daughter age eighteen; one granddaughter, Spanish age seven; one male servant, Indios age seven; three female servants, Comanche ages thirty-one and twenty-five and one Apache age nine.

Don José Mariano de la Peña, Spanish native of Mexico City, age thirty-one, merchant; Doña Manuela de la Soledad Gutiérrez, Spanish age twenty-six; 1 brother, Spanish, native of Mexico age twenty-one; one male servant, Apache age thirteen; two female servants, Apache age thirteen and Comanche age nine.

Don Lorenzo Gutiérrez, Spanish age forty-four rancher; wife, doña María Candelaria García, Spanish age Twenty-five, native of El Paso; one daughter age four; one male orphan, Spanish age twenty-one.

Spanish and Mexican Colonial Censuses, pp. 25-26

José married María Soledad Gutiérrez, daughter of Clemente Gutiérrez and Josefa Apolonia Baca, on 10 Mar 1783 in San Agustín de la Isleta, Isleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España.

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Record: ³⁴
10 Mar 1783 - don Mariano Peña, son of don Juan Antonio Peña and María Antonia Albares of Mexico City, married doña María Soledad Gutierres, daughter of Clemente Gutierres and doña Polonia Baca, Spanish of Paxarito.

Padrinos: don Lorenzo Gutierresandhis wife donña María Candelaria García.

San Agustín de la Isleta Marriages & Baptisms, p. 33