Nicolás Jirón de Tejeda

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Nicolás Jirón de Tejeda, fifteen years old and son of Tomás, born in Mexico City at the Calle de los Cordobanes, had a round, fair face with some moles on it. His wife, Josefa Sedano, was only thirteen, the daughter of Pedro, and a native of Querétaro. She was of medium build, with an aquiline face, white and fair, and large eyes. Nicolás was a painter like his father. Josefa Sedano gave her age as twenty-three in 1706, and declared that her parents were Pedro Sedano and María Coronel, both of Querétaro. Her husband was still living in 1713, but it is not known if they had any children. He was dead by 1722. A sister of his wife was married to Juan Lorenzo Medina.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 201