DURAN Y. CHAVEZ, Pedro Don

1627 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	DURAN Y. CHAVEZ, Pedro  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Suffix	Don
  Born	1627	Santa Fe, Kingdom of Nuevo Mexico   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I10425	Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	DURAN Y. CHAVEZ, Pedro Don,   b. 1550, Valverde de Llerena, Spain ,   d. Bef Apr 1669, Kingdom of New Mexico  (Age < 119 years)
  Mother	DE BOHÃRQUEZ, Isabel,   b. Abt 1586,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F3518	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  [Chavez.FTW] Don Pedro Duran y Chavez II was the second son of the original Chavez and younger brother of Don Fernando I. Still much alive in 1680, he gave his age as seventy. Those who testified against him at Guadalupe del Paso for taking an undue share of the refugees' rations deposed that in 1637 he was still a boy in his mother's care, which also shows that his father was dead by this time. But by 1642 he was already married. As a youth he went on three campaigns, one of them with his uncle, Antonio Baca. In the Governor Rosas affair, he was one of the four masked men who accompanied the assassin, Nicholas Ortiz, and for this complicity he was later banished from New Mexico by Governor Guzman. His arrest, not a political one but over a question of livestock, in the Santo Domingo Church, at which time he held the rank of Sargento Mayor. His estancia lay four leagues north of Isleta Pueblo on the Rio del Norte. In 1667 he gave his age as forty, giving Santa Fe as his birth place. His wife was Elena Dominguez de Mendoza, the daughter of Captain Tome Dominguez. In 1680, his family joined the Rio Abajo settlers in their flight to Guadalupe del Paso. He gave his age as seventy, declaring a son already bearing arms, ten minor children and thirty servants. In 1681 he complained of his poverty, the fact of having serve the King without salary or an encomienda, boasting that his grandparents (the Bacas) had been among "the first conquistadores and pacifiers" of the Kingdom, and that his father, Don Pedro I, and "those others ended their lives there in the royal service". But the other refugees contradicted him by proving that he had not only deprived some families of their rations by taking an undue share, but was also profiteering in stock and textiles; they agreed that his forebears had done great things, but that he himself had been a military slacker as well as a commercial profiteer all his life. In the years following, he secretly did his best to impede the return of the colonists for the Reconquest and resettlement of New Mexico, and finally the intermarried families of Pedro de Chavez and tome Dominguez were allowed to leave the Guadalupe del Paso district and move south into New Spain. This is how the greater portion of the Chavez family failed to repopulate New Mexico after the Reconquest. However, they are the progenitors of old families named Chavez in what is now northern Mexico.

  
  

• Sources

  [S366] Origins of New Mexico Families (A Genealogy of the Spanish ColonialPeriod), 19. His known children were Fernando, Pedro II, and most likely, a daughterIsabel, wife of Juan Dominguez de Mendoza. [S371] The Chavez Family, 2. A. Pedro Duran y Chavez married Isabela Baca, this union produced atleast four children. The were: Isabela Duran y Chavez, who married JuanDominiquez de Mendoza; Al. Fernando Duran y Chavez, who married aCaravaja; A2. Pedro Duray y Chavez, who married Elena Dominquez deMendoza; A3. Fernando Duran y Chavez II, who married Lucia Hurtado deSalas. [S371] The Chavez Family, 3. Second Generation in New Mexico A1. Fernando Duran y Chavez, who married a Carvajal. This union producedat least three children. They were: Cristobal Duran y Chavez, who was born in 1639, married Juana CatalinaDominquez de Mendoza. Fernando Duran y Chavez, who married Elena Ruiz de Caceras. Pedro Duran y Chavez, married Elena Dominquez de Mendoza. This unionproduced at least two children: Joseph Duran y Chavez, who married AnaMaria Carvajal; Tomas Duran y Chavez married Melchora Carvajal. This union produced atleast one child. He was Antonio Duran y Chavez. [S396] "From Duran y Chavez to Martinez", 19. Don Pedro (Gomez) Duran y Chavez and doña Isabel Baca had the followingchildren: 1. Don Fernando duran y Chavez 91) who was born circa 1609. On 17 August1644 he testified that he was thirty-five years old and was born in NewMexico. His wife Ana, was a daughter of Don Juan de Victoria Carvajaland Doña Isabel Holguin. Don Fernando inherited lands in the SandiaJurisdiction of New Mexico, extending from the border okf San FelipePueblo down through Bernalillo to Atrisco. DonFernando was referred toas deceased by April 1669. 2. Don Pedro Duran y Chavez (II) who, in 1668, gave his age as forty,giving Santa Fe, New Mexico, as hs birthplace. His wife ws ElenaDominguez de Mendoza. In 1680 he fled New Mexico with his family to NewSpain (Mexico) and never returned. 3. Doña Isabel Duran y Chavez who married Don Juan Dominguez de Mendoza.They had one known son, Baltazar, and one known daughter, Maria, whomarried Diego Lucero de Godoy on 15 February 1681 at Guadalupe del Paso. [S402] The New Mexico Chronicles, Los Lunas-Los Chavez, 39. Pedro Duran y Chavez born in 1566 in Llerena, Spain married Isabel deBohoroques Baca. Isabel was the daughter of Cristobal Baca and Doña AnaOrtiz. Pedro and Isabel had two sons. 1. Pedro Duran y Chavez II born in 1611 married Elana Domingo de Mendoza 2. Fernando Duran y Chavez born in 1609 married Maria de Carabajal.This union produced three sons.