Blas de Valencia

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ^252,274
Blas de Valencia came to New Mexico with Don Juan de Oñate in 1598 at the age of 26 years. He was a soldier and described as having a round face and a light beard. He appears later in Governor Zevallo's escort to Santa Fe in 1613. He is most likely the father of Franciso de Valencia.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 109

Blas de Valencia was among the Loyalists who stayed in New Mexico.

~NM's First Colonists, p. 78