Juana de Sosa Canela

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁴²⁴
Salvador Matías de Rivera, his wife Juan de Sosa and their son, Juan Felipe de Rivera were on the Muster Roll for Juan Páez Hurtado.

~The Páez Hurtado Expedition of 1695: Fraud in Recruiting Colonists for New Mexico

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Salvador Matias de Ribera was born in Santa Maria in Spain, and was 20 years old in 1695. He was recruited at Zacatecas by Juan Paez Hurtado. He arrrived in Santa Fe in 1695 with his wife and faimily. Her name was Juana de Sosa Canela.

In 1704, he lost his Vargas grant in the center of Santa Fe through a law-suit. By 1773, his widow, Juana de Sosa Canela and son were seeking other grants in the Torreon de la Cienega section of Santa Fe. His only known child was Juan Felipe.

~The Origins of New Mexico Families, p. 267

Juana married Salvador Matías de Ribera. (Salvador Matías de Ribera was born in 1675 in Puerto de Santa Maria, España ²⁵².)