Antonio Baca

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Will of Antonio Baca ~ 1755 from 1598 Bew New Mexico.
Antonio Baca names his parents, Manuel Baca and María Salazar, his wife María de Aragón, ad his chidren: Ana María Baca, deceased wife of Andrés Montoya; María Francisca, wife of Manuel de Armijol; Ines Baca, wife of Antonio Montoya; Gregoria Baca, wife of Mateo Roybal; Rosa Baca wife of Antonio Ortega; Pablo Baca husband of Lorenza Juan rivera; and María, deceased.

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Antonio Baca married María de Aragón at Bernalillo on June 12, 1706, but later moved up to Santa Fe. Not only was Antonio accused of mistreating the Indians with his father, but his wife also. She died on September 1, 1751, and he followed ten years later, on December 4, 1761, being then "more than eighty years old." Antonio had made his will in 1755, in which he gave the names of his parents and his wife, and those of his son and seven daughters with their respective husbands:

• Ana (Antonia) María, deceased, wife of Antonio Montoya


• María Francisca, wife of Manuel de Armijo


• Juana, married to Francisco Montoya


• Gregoria, wife of Mateo Roybal


• Ynez, wife of another Antonio Montoya


• Rosa, married to Antonio Ortega


• María, deceased


• Pablo, married to Lorenza Juana de Ribera.

Three of the girls had been born in Bernalillo before the parents moved to Santa Fe: María, July 19, 1707, María Antonia, December 2, 1710; and María Francisca, August 17, 1712. Their brother, Pablo (Antonio), married Lorenza, daughter of Felipe de Ribera and María Estela Palomino, on May 27, 1743.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 6091-6114

Antonio married María Gertrudis Aragón, daughter of Ygnacio de Aragón and Sebastiana Ortiz, on 10 Jun 1706 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁵² (María Gertrudis Aragón was born on 11 Nov 1685 in Ciudád de Méjico, Nueva España, died in 1751 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and was buried on 1 Sep 1751 in La Castrense, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)