Bernabé Jorge Baca Captain

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Bernabé Baca is often mentioned after the Reconquest. It is not clear who his parents are, but he is posssibly the Bernabé Jorge, not heard of after he is graned a the Pueblo Viejo at La Ciénega in 1701 by Diego de Vargas.

Bernabé married Margarita Baca (Mata) on May 28 1718. He was Alcalde Mayor of Acoma and Laguna in the 1730s, and was very unpopular with the Pueblo people and missionaries.

~The Origins of New México Families, p. 145

• Census: 1750, in San Clemente, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
San Clemente - Related families

Household #3
Bernabe Baca; wife, doña Margarita de Mata; servants: Michaela, Maria, Juana, Matheo, Dominga, Micaela.

Household #4
Don Juan Miguel Albares del Castillo; wife doña Bárbara Baca (daughter of Bernabe & Margarita in Household#3) children: Anna María, María Getrudis; José Antonio, Joachín; servants: María Rosa, Rita, Ysabel, Ursala, Anna María, Marcela, Antonia, Josepha, Francisco.

Household #9
Balthasar Baca (son of Bernabe & Margarita in Household #3): wife, doña Manuela Rael de Aguilar; Children: Franco, Joseph Miguel, Maria Ysabel - infant, servants: Antonia with son, Franco, Beatriz, Brianda.

Spanish and Mexican Census of New Mexico, 1750-1830, p. 94-95

Bernabé married Margarita Pelaez de Mata, daughter of Baltazar Salvador de Mata and Maria Ysabel Durán y Chávez, on 28 May 1718 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁵² (Margarita Pelaez de Mata was born in 1705 ²⁵², baptized on 30 Oct 1705 in Iglesia de Nuestro Santo Padre San Francisco de Bernalillo, Bernalillo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ³⁴² and died before 9 Dec 1760 in San Clemente, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
1718, May, Alburquerque. Bernabe Baca (22) and Doña Margarita de Mata (14), dispensed from unspecified degree of consanguinity. Witnesses: José de Quintana, notary (Bernalillo); Juan Dios Martín, nortary in Alburquerque, Jan Griego (34), Nicolas Lucero ... (DM was not complte.)

Diligencias Matrimoniales Vol. 1, p. 156

Bernabé next married María Josefa Sedillo in 1760 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (María Josefa Sedillo was born in 1742 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
1760, Dec. 1, Tomé. Don Bernabe Baca (60) of San Clemente, widowed of Doña Teresa Gutiérres, and María Josefa Sedillo (18), española, daughter of Captain Antonio Sedillo and Gregoria Gonzáles Bas. Witnesses: Felipe Jacobo Romero, notary; Marcial Rael (51), Martín Montoya (40).
DM, pg. 158