María de Torres

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Antonio de Salazar, son of Agustín de Salazar and Felipa de Gamboa, married María de Torres in Santa Fe, 27 Nov 1708. In 1714, he asked for lands west of the Río del Norte that had belonged to his grandfather, Captain Alonso Martín Barba. The Governor ordered that the grant be made.

~The Origins of New México Families, p. 279

Antonio de Salazar (son of Augustín Salazar and Felipa de Gamboa) and María de Torres had these known children at Santa Cruz: Juan Antonio, Sept. 23, 1714; and Nicolás, Sept. 17, 1721

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 16708-16711

• Census: Spanish, 1750, Belén, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Household #13
Antonio Salazar and his wife María Torres with son Nicolás and granddaughter Rita. Servants: María with son Santiago; Juana, Josef, Dorothea, Manuel, Vicente and Juan Antonio. Orphans: Rosa, Febronia and Juan Antonio.

Family in nearby households:

Household #7
Son and daughter-in-law Pablo Salazar with wife Manuela Tafoya; Children: Antonia, Baptista; Juan Antonio; Toribio-infant; sister-in-law, Maria Tafoya

Household #8
Son-in-law and daughter Juachín de Luna; wife, Angela Zalazar; Children: Miguel, Bernardo, María (infant); brother Felipe de Luna.

Household #9
Brother Diego Torres & his 3rd wife, Rafaela Baca with Diego's children: Cayetano, Juan Domingo, Martin, Nicolas, Bartholome, Manuel, Catharina Romana, Maria, Josepha de la Luz, Lugarda

Household #10
Nephew Cristóbal Torres, wife Juana Benevides and their children Anna María and Alejandro

Household #11
Mother of sister-in-law, Rafaela Baca, Petrona García, widow (of Juan Antonio Baca) and her children Juan Felipe and Miguel as well as servants: Antonia with her two children, Venancio and Ysidro.

Household #12
Juan Baca (son of Petrona García and Juan Antonio Baca) and his wife Francisca de (Sandoval Martínez) with servants Juliana and Felipe de Neri.

Spanish & Mexican Colonial Census, p. 95-96

María married Antonio de Salazar, son of Agustín María de Salazar and Felipa Teresa de Gamboa, on 27 Nov 1708 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ^248,252.^,327 (Antonio de Salazar was born about 1688 in El Paso del Norte, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died in 1768 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ³²⁷.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
Nov 1708, Santa Cruz. Antonio Salazar, native of El Paso del Norte living here, son of Agustín Salazar and Felipa Gamboa, natives of New Mexico, and María Torres of Santa Fé, daughter of Alferez Cristóbal Torres and Agela Leyva, natives of New Mexico. ~ Witnesses: Tomás Jiron de Tejeda and Pedro Martín (signed Martines), native of Puebla, married and living in Santa Fé; Baltasar Romero, Lorenzo Madrid. Pair married 27 Nov 1708, with witnesses Sebastian de Vargas and María de Leyva.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1672