Juan Páez Hurtado

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ^250,424
Domingo Hurtado and doña Ana Josepha Rubio were married in the Church of Santa María la Blanca on 13 August 1662. Domingo's father was identified as Juan Páez Hurtado. His mother was Gerónima. Her surname has proven difficult to decipher. The surname looks like 'de Veiro Viscaino' or 'de Veire Viscaino,' but also has been transcribed as 'de Reina Viscaino.' Doña Ana Josepha Rubio was a daughter of Juan López Pachón and doña María Vásquez Rubio. The marriage record of Domingo Hurtado and doña Ana Josepha Rubio reads:

Desposorios de Domingo Hurtado Vizcaino y de Ana Josefa Rubio

"En trece de agosto de mil seiscientos sessenta y dos años, Yo el Licenciado Miguel Muñiz de Orellana Beneficiando y Cura de la iglesia de estas vilas de Los Palacios y Villafranca habiendo precedido las tres canonicas moniciones y lo demas despuesto por el santo concilio de Trento y las instituciones de este arzobispado y no habiendo resultado razon mi impedimiento y habiendo confesado y comulgado para se casar y sabiendo la doctrina cristiana despose y case por palabras de presente y contrajeron verdadero matrimonio a domingo hurtado viscaino hijo de Juo paes hurtado y de geronima de [veire/veira/reina?] vizcaino juntamente con doña Ana Josepha rubio hija de Juo Lopes pachon y de doña Maria basques rubio todos vesinos destas dichas villas siendo testigos al dicho despossorio Po marques y Juo paes y bre nuñes vesinos destas dichas villas de que doi fe y lo firme."

Migl muñiz de Orellana

Based on the research presented by John B. Colligan in his book, The Juan Páez Hurtado Expedition of 1695, the following genealogy of the early members of the Páez Hurtado family has been constructed:

Domingo Hurtado md. Ana Domínquez [born in the latter part of the 1500s]. Their known son:

Juan Páez Hurtado, bt. 25 April 1610, Santa María la Blanca Church, Los Palacios y Villafranca, Andalucia, Spain; md. 14 April 1636, Santa María la Blanca, with Gerónima de [Veire/Vere/Reina?] Vizcaino. Their known son:

Domingo Hurtado Vizcaino, bt. 15 February 1637, Santa María la Blanca Church, Los Palacios y Villafranca, andalucia, Spain; md. 13 August 1662, Santa María la Blanca Church, with doña Ana Josefa Rubio, daughter of Juan López Pachón and doña María Vásquez Rubio. Known children:

Juan (I) Hurtado, b. 2 February 1663, bt. 10 February 1663, Santa María la Blanca Church, Los Palacios y Villafranca. Padrino: Francisco Benítez Bohórquez. Presumbly died as a child.

María Hurtado, b. 3 November 1664, bt. 9 November 1664, Santa María la Blanca Church, Los Palacios y Villafranca. Padrino: Lázaro Parejo.

Gerónima Hurtado, b. 14 September 1666, bt. 18 September 1666, Santa María la Blanca Church, Los Palacios y Villafranca. Padrino: Andrés Martín Parejo. Presumably died as a child.

Juan Páez Hurtado, b. 14 December 1668, bt. 22 December 1668, Santa María la Blanca Church, Los Palacios y Villafranca - burial 5 May 1742, Chapel of la Conquistadora, Santa Fe, New Mexico; md. (1) Pascuala López Vera, died 1693. Known children:

Rosa María López, b.ca. 1684-85, Tlapujahua, Nueva España; md. 1699 with Alonso del Río, b.ca. 1646, Santa Fe, New Mexico, widowed of María González, son of Captain Diego del Río de Losa and María Madrid (Chávez, "New Mexico Roots," 1556-60, DM 1699, no. 10).

Ana Páez Hurtado, b.ca 1693; md. 6 January 1716, Santa Fe, New Mexico, with Pedro Ortiz Escudero, b.ca. 1693, Oaxaca, son of Pedro Ortiz Escudero and Lucía de Quiñones y Cervantes.

Juan Páez Hurtado md. (2) 30 June 1704, Santa Fe, New Mexico, with doña Teodora García de la Riva, b.ca. 1686, Mexico City, Nueva España, daughter of Mexico City natives Miguel García de la Riva and Micaela Velasco. For descendancy in New Mexico consult ONMF: 254 and Colligan, The Juan Páez Hurtado Expedition of 1695: 8-9.

Gerónima Hurtado, bt. 10 October 1676, Santa María la Blanca Church, Los Palacios y Villafranca.

Juana Hurtado, bt. 27 December 1678, Santa María la Blanca Church, Los Palacios y Villafranca. Padrino: Francisco Benítez Bohórquez.

Researchers: John B. Colligan, Sr. Antonio Cruzado González and C. Victor Jeter.

Sources: Baptisms, Santa María la Blanca Church, Villas de los Palacios y Villafranca, libro 5, folio 89, libro 5, folio 123, libro 6, folio 42, libro 6, folio 209v, libro 7, folio 18; Marriages, Santa María la Blanca Church, Villa de los Palacios y Villafranca, libro 5, folio 123; libro 6, folio 38v. John B. Colligan, The Juan Páez Hurtado Expedition of 1695: Fraud in Recruiting Colonists for New Mexico, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995, 3-9, 131 n18, 132 n24, n30, 133 n42; Fray Angélico Chávez, "New Mexico Roots, Ltd.," 1556-60, DM 1699, no. 10; Correspondence of C. Victor Jeter with Charles Martínez y Vigil, January 25, 1998.

• Dates & Events. ⁴²⁴
On the death of Don Diego de Vargas, 20 Apr 1704, Juan Páez Hurtado wrote to Vargas's son-in-law. He wrote that he had been in New Spain for seventeen years. Juan was as at Tlapujahua with Vargas, and Juan's daughter, Rosa María López in 1699, that she was born there. She stated that her parents were Jan Páez Hurtado and Pascuala, gave her age as fourteen or fifteen.

In 1692, he went to El Paso, and was the aléfrez. He arrived with colonists at Santa Fé on 9 May 1695, and Governor Vargas gave him the responsibility of overseeing the settlement of Villa Nueva de Santa Cruz de los Españoles Mexicanos del Rey Nuestro Señor do Carlos Segundo.

From October 1696 through January 1698, members of the Páez Hurtado expedition gave damning testimony concerning how their leader had contrived family units and enriched himself by taking allowances for persons who never took part in the expedition, which led to his arrest on 20 October 1697, but a trial never followed.

Vargas granted Páez Hurtado lands between Pojoaque and Nambe pueblos on 2 March 1704. Vargas made his last will in 1704 and made Páez Hurtado his attorney and executor in New México. Vargas died on 8 April 1704, and Páez Hurtado said he had benne at the head of the dying man's bed until he expired. He called Vargas the "father to all residents, and even more so to me."

Juan Páez Hurtado acted as interim governor after the death of Vargas, until 10 March 1705, when Governor Francisco y Cuervo y Valdéz reached Santa Fé. Cuervo y Valdéz named Páez Hurtado as lieutenant governor. Páez Hurtado again acted as interim governor in 1713, 1714-1715, and again in January 1717. In 1724 he was named lieutenant general and lieutenant governor. He was recorded as being in charge of the Rio Abajo area in 1734 and 1736.

Juan Páez Hurtado Expedition, 1695, pp. 3-11

Juan married Pascuala Antonia López Vera. (Pascuala Antonia López Vera died in 1693 in El Paso del Norte, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴²⁴ and was buried in Convento de San Francisco, El Paso del Norte, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴²⁴.)

Juan next married Teodora García de la Riva, daughter of Miguel García de la Riva and Micaela de Velasco, on 30 Jun 1704 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁷.^,250 (Teodora García de la Riva was born about 1688 in Xochimilco, Nueva España, died in 1736 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ^252,424 and was buried on 17 Nov 1736 in La Castrense, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ^252,424.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
4 May 1704, Santa Fé. Captain Juan Páez Hurtado, native of Villafranca de los Palacios near Las Cabezas in Andalucia, Teniente General of the Kingdom of New México, widowed fro 9 years, of Pascuala López de Vera, buried at El Paso del Norte, son of Domingo Hurtado and doña Ana Rubio y Vasquez, both deceased, and Teodora García de la Riva (15), daughter of Captain Miguel García de la Riva and Micaela Velasco, all natives of México City living in this kingdom. A padre had already thaken the vows, hence the banns are dispensed with.

Witnesses: Capt. Don Alfonso Rael de Aguilar (44), native of Lorca in the Realms of Castile and secretary to the Governor; Francisco Lorenzo de Casados, native of Cadiz, widower; Mateo Trujillo (40), native of New Mexico, soldier; Manuel de Cervantes (33), native of Mexico City, soldier and married.

Pair married, 30 Jun 1704, with witnesses Captain don Felix Martínez, don Francisco Lorenzo de Casados, Salvador Montoya, Captain Miguel García de la Riva and Manuela García.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, vol. 8, pp. 1467-1466