DURÃN Y. CHAVEZ, Francisco

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Francisco Chavez, the youngest son of Nicolas Duran y Chavez, married María Gertrudis Alvarez del Castillo, born February 12, 1743, a daughter of Juan Miguel Alvarez del Castillo, mentioned previously as being of unknown origin and his first wife Barbara Baca, sister of the Capitan Baltasar Baca. Three known children of this Francisco Chavez were the following:

1) Doña Maria Barbara Duran y Chavez, española of San Clemente, the daughter of Don Francisco Duran y Chavez and Doña Gertrudis Alvarez del Castillo, who in 1775 married a Jose Francisco Pino, español and twenty-five, but of parents unknown; five years later she was dead when Pino remarried in 1780, naming a Barbara Sanchez as his natural Mother.
2) María de la Luz Chavez, sixteen, of El Rancho de Guadalupe (in Los Chavez), daughter of Don Francisco Duran y Chavez and Doña Gertrudis Alvarez del Castillo, deceased, married Felipe de Jesús Varela in 1780; an español and twenty-six, he was the son of Pedro Varela and Casilda Gonzalez, deceased.
3) Baltasar de los Reyes Durán y Chavez, español of Los Chavez, the son of Francisco Durán y Chavez and María Gertrudis Alvarez del Castillo, deceased, in 1783 married María Gertrudis Romero of the same place, the daughter of Andres Romero and Antonia Jaramillo, after they were duly dispensed as second and third cousins on both their parents' sides.

Francisco married ÃLVAREZ DEL CASTILLO, MarÃa Gertrudis 6 Apr 1756, San Augustin de la Isleta Church, Isleta, Province of New Mexico. MarÃa (daughter of ÃLVAREZ DEL CASTILLO, Juan Miguel and BACA, Barbara) was born 12/12 Feb 1742/1743; died Bef 15 May 1782, Los Chavez, New Mexico. [Group Sheet]

1. DURÃN Y. CHAVEZ, MarÃabarbara DoÃa
2. CHÃVEZ, Francisco Antonio
3. CHAVEZ, Margarita
4. DURÃN Y. CHAVEZ, Josebaltasar De Los Reyes was born 1763; died 3 May 1823.
5. DURAN Y. CHAVEZ, MarÃadelaluz was born 1764; died Yes, date unknown.
6. CHÃVEZ, Jacinta was born 1773; died Yes, date unknown.

Francisco married ROMERO, Josefa 15 May 1782, San Augustin de la Isleta Church, Isleta, Province of New Mexico. [Group Sheet]

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Nicolas Duran y Chavez was twenty-four and a resident of Atrisco when he had at least one natural child, already four years old in 1714, when he decided to marry its mother, Juana Montano, of Santa Fe. The wedding took place on July 20, 1714. She was the sister of two other Montano girls, Magdalena and Leonore, who had married his brothers Antonio and Luis. The men were second cousins of the women. Nicolas acquired much property south of Isleta and appears in several land litigations.

He made his last will on May 19, 1768, in which he gave the names of his parents and of his wife, followed by his eight sons and five daughters: Jose, Gertrudis, Bernardo, Luis, Fernando, Isabel, Antonio, Maria Francisca, Maria Antonia, Juan, Vicente, Maria and Francisco. Of the girls, Gertrudis married Francisco Silva and Maria Antonia married Tadeo Romero and later a Domingo Baca.

The sons are as follows: Jose married Luisa de Aragon, February 3, 1732; Bernardo married an apacha, Maria Benavides, and then his first cousin's widow, Maria Josefa Nunez; Luis married Eduarda Yturrieta, April 20, 1747; Fernando married Antonia Sanchez and Francisco married Maria Gertrudis Alvarez de Castillo, April 6, 1756.

From "Chavez, A Distinctive American Clan in New Mexico by Fray Angelico Chavez:

1. Another Fruitful Brother

In 1719 Nicolás acted as a pre -nuptial witness giving his age as twenty -six,
hence born at El Paso del None around the year 1686. He was the sixth son of Don
Fernando, and also residing with the family in Atrisco when he took the third one
of the Montaño sisters to wife. Her name was Juana Montaño. This took place on
July 20, 1714, when they already had at least one boy who was four years old. It
had taken her that much more time to get her Chavez man. It could also have
been a turbulent union for a time, since once, after he gave her a beating, she
tried walking all the way to her own folks in Santa Fe before Nicolás caught up
with her at Bernalillo. Yet they managed to produce a very large family of which
we have a complete list, thanks to the extant will which he drew up on May 19,
1768. In it he stated the names of his parents, his wife, and the following eight
sons and four daughters according to their ages: Jose, Gertrudis, Bernardo, Luis,
Fernando, Isabel, Antonio, Maria Francisca, Maria Antonia, Juan, Vicente,
Maria, and Francisco.

Of the four girls, there is further record only of the first three named in the will.
The eldest one, as Doña Gertrudis Duran y Chavez, and fifteen in 1729, the daughter of Don Nicolás Chavez and Doña Juana Montaño, natives of New Mexico living in Atrisco, married Francisco Silva, thirty, a New Mexico native and the son of Antonio de Silva and Gregoria Ruiz, both natives of Mexico City. This latter couple had come with the Mexico Valley colonists of 1694. The next daughter, Isabel Chavez, as we learn from the 1798 pre-nuptial investigation of a grandson, Jose Lugardo Padilla, had married a certain Padilla, and was there identified as a daughter of Nicolás Chavez, the brother of Antonio Chavez. The third one, Maria Antonia Chavez had three husbands, the first two having an interesting historical background.

On March 20, 1751, this Maria Antonia married Tadeo Romero, the son of
Mara Romero and Angela Teresa Vallejo. He was descended in a direct line from
Bartolome Romero and Luisa Robledo, a married couple from Toledo which had
arrived in 1598; Bartolome was Oñates artillery captain who made the conquest
of Acoma possible in that year, and both were the parents of that Doña Ana
Robledo, wife of Francisco Gómez, who in 1622 had invited Governor Sotelo and
Doña Isabel de Bohórques, wife of Don Pedro de Chavez, to act as godparents for
their first child, Francisco Gómez Robledo. On the other hand, Angela Teresa
Vallejo had come from Mexico City in 1694 as a little orphan girl with her Vallejo
father, her mother having died during the long journey; she had first married a
Miguel Lucero by whom she had some children, and then Matías Romero by
whom she had this Tadeo Romero.

Finally, in 1768, Doña María Antonia Chavez, forty and the widow of Tadeo
Romero, daughter of Don Nicolás de Chavez and Doña Juana Montaño, married a Domingo Baca, thirty, an español of San Gabriel de las Nutrias whose parents were not given. A witness was her youngest brother Francisco who lived in El Rancho de Guadalupe (Los Chavez) in the Isleta district.

1. GENEALOGY: Gertrudis D. y Chavez, Agustina Silva, Lugarda Tafoya, Pablo Baca, Tomás Baca, Nicanora Baca, Fabián Chavez, Fr. A. Chávez

From the book "Rio Abajo Heritage" page 13:
After the re-conquest of New Mexico by Don Diego de Vargas in 1692, the struggle was on for the acquisition of land; land, land more pasture land.

In 1738 Don Nicolas Duran y Chavez, son of Don Fernando Duran y Chavez, petitioned the Crown for a Spanish Land Grant in the area now known as the Community of Los Chavez.

In his petition, Don Nicolas went on to state that he was a descendant of the original Chavez family and a son of Fernando Duran y Chavez, who was a captain with Governor De Vargas during the Reconquest of New Mexico.

His petition went on to state that he had a large family of nine sons and that he had sheep and cattle and no place to pasture them where he lived (Atrisco) except in the region of Isleta and that this would infringe on the pasture of Isleta Indians.
"The lands I petition for" he said in his request "are vacant and unsettled lands and I caused a small front to be built in the area to protect my family and sheepherders from the wild marauding Indians".

The following years, 1739, Don Nicolas Duran y Chavez was awarded the land grant known as Los Chavez Land Grant on the west side of the Rio Grande, and just opposite the Tome Land Grant.

The new grant was bordered by a site called "Los Esteros de San Pablo" now known as Los Lecos to the south; the north boundary was even with the old home of Tome Dominguez; the west boundary was open domain.

Hence Don Nicolas Duran de Chavez (sic) is considered to be the founder of the community known as Los Chavez.

In the short span of five decades, Los Chavez was listed under six different plazas, which again were constructed in the Spanish style of rectangular forts for protection from the enemy Indians.

One of the original "Plazas" was the plaza de los Gabaldones where the Gabaldon family lived. This is know known as El Dorado Estates.

From the book, "The Place Names of New Mexico" by Robert Julyan: "In 1738 Don Nicolás Durán y Chávez applied to the Spanish crown for a land grant in the area now known as Los Chavez, saying in his petition that he was a descendant of the original Chávez family and a son of Fernando Durán y Chávez, who was a captain with Vargas during the reconquest in 1692. A year later his request was granted. This inhabited community still bears his familys' name.

NicolÃs married MONTAÃO, Juana DoÃa 20 Jul 1714, Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Juana (daughter of DE SOTO-MAYOR, Juan Antonio Montano and DE VERA, Isabel Jorge) was born Bef 1693, Guadalupe del Paso, Kingdom of New Mexico; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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Don Nicolas Duran y Chavez was the sixth son of Don Fernando, and also residing with the family in Atrisco when he took the third on of the Montaño sisters to wife. Her name was Juana Montaño. This took place on July 20, 1714, when they already had at least one boy who was four years old. It had taken her that much more time to get her Chavez man. It could also have been a turbulent union for a time, since once, after he gave her a beating, she tried walking all the way to her own folks in Santa Fe before Nicolás caught up with her at Bernalillo. Yet they managed to produce a very large family of which we have a complete list, thanks to the extant will which he drew up on May 19, 1768. In it he stated the names of his parents, his wife, and the following eight sons and four daughters according to their ages: Jose, Gertrudis, Bernardo, Luis, Fernanado, Isabel, Antonio, María Antonia, Juan, Vicente, María and Francisco. [Chavez, A Distinctive American Clan in New Mexico by Fray Angelico Chavez]

From "Beyond Origins of New Mexico Families, Volume 2: Gertrudis Chavez (ONMF: 163) wife of Francisco Silva (ONMF: 289) was not a daughter of Nicolás Durán y Chavez as documented in Origins of New Mexico Families by Fray Angelico Chavez. Prior to marriage, Nicolás had a son, Juan Jose by Juana Montaño. While (he) was traveling out of New Mexico, Juana Montaño had given birth to a boy christened Nicolás and was pregnant with her third child, Gertrudis, when Nicolás returnedto New Mexico. Nicolás, the younger, and Gertrudis, natural children of Juana Montaño, were said to have been fathered by "a decent man named Urbán". Nicolás Durán y Chavez was forced to marry Juana Montaño.

This information comes from the testimony of Antonio Chavez, half-brother of Gertrudis Chavez, given during the pre-marital investigation of Jose Manuel Silva and Mara Josefa Silveria Sánchez.

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Don Fernando Duran y Chavez (II) also identified as "the capitan, was to all appearances, the third son of Don Fernando and his heir in New Mexico. He was mentioned as an Alferez and "youth of good repute" by Father Bernal in 1670.

A captain by 1680, he fled the Indian Rebellion with the Rio Abajo people, but was the only one among the leaders who voted to turn back and help the Santa Fe colonist. Unlike the reset of the Chavez family, his uncle Pedro's family, and his first cousin, Fernando (the Sargento Mayor) of Taos, he did not try to impede the resettlement of New Mexico, nor did he ask to return to New Spain.

He passed muster in September, 1680, as a married man with four small children and two servants, and was described in 1681 as a settler willing to return, thirty years old, married, and having a good stature with a fair and ruddy complexion. He must have been somewhat older that this, for he later testified at Guadalupe del Paso that he had witnessed the beheading of eight men in 1643. Or else, wary of signing a paper against the Governor, he was referring to his father's experience in that year.

His wife, as learned from post-Reconquest sources, was Lucia Hurtado de Salas, who fled with him and their four little children in 1680. They returned with a much increased family in 1693. This is the most important Chavez family, being the only one to return with Vargas, and is thus the parent stem of succeeding generations in New Mexico. (Origins of New Mexico Families, pages 20-21].

Don Fernando Duran y Chavez, who escaped in 1680 from the Sandia district with his wife, Lucia Hurtado, and four small children, the only member of the large Duran y Chavez clan to return with his family at the time of the Reconquest. [For more detailed treat see "El Palacio", Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 103-121. Some emendations in this present work -"Origins of New Mexico Families" are the result of more data found.]

During the 1680-1693 exile at Guadalupe del Paso he took part in the futile Otermin Expedition, and was one of the Regidores of the colony, and with the arrival of Governor Vargas he became one of his councillors. In the grand "ENTRADA" into Santa Fe, December 16, 1693, Don Fernando led with the Royal Standard as Real Alferez, but soon after moved to the ancestral lands at Bernalillo; here and at San Felipe Pueblo he maneuvered the colonists and Indians so as to forestall disaster during the uprising of 1696, though he had to disagree with Vargas as to tactics; subsequently he vanquished the Jemez Indians at San Diego Canyon, when they fled into the Navajo country. Governor Vargas, taken ill during an Apache campaign in the Sandias in 1704, was carried to Bernalillo where he made his will and die, presumably in the Chavez house, for Don Fernando and his eldest son, Bernardo, signed as official witnesses of the last will and testament.

By 1707 he and the family had moved to Atrisco, while Bernard and his young family remained at Bernalillo. At Atrisco Don Fernando made his last will on February 11, 1707, but he was still living as late as 1712. By 1716 he was referred to as dead.

His widow, Lucia Hurtado de Salas, lived with some of her sons until her death on February 3, 1729. Their ten children are named in their father's will in this order: Bernardo, Pedro, Antonio, Isabel, Francisco, Luis Nicolas, Maria, Catalina, and Pedro Gomez Duran. The four eldest had been born before 1680 in the Sandia-Bernalillo area; the rest at Guadalupe del Paso.

Before his marriage Don Fernando had a natural daughter, Clara de Chavez, mother not known, who became the wife of Juan de la Mora Pineda.

Of his three daughters, Isabel, married Jacinto Pelaez, and then Baltasar de Mata; Maria, wife of Antonio de Ulibarri, died without issue: and Catalina became the wife of Matias de Miranda.

From Carlos Lapopolo's "The New Mexico Chronicles-Los Lunas - Los Chavez": Of all the Chavez family members, only Fernado II and his family returned to New Mexico after the 1580 revolt.

From the article "From Duran y Chavez to Martinez" by Daniel E. Martinez:

Don Fernando Duran y Chavez (II) born circa 1651, was married to Doña Lucia Hurtado de Salas who fled with him and their four children to Guadalupe del Paso during the Indian Revolt of 1680 Doña Lucia was the daughter of Don Andres Hurtado and Doña Bernardina de Salas. Don Fernando was the only member of the large Duran ly Chavez clan to return to New MExico with his wife and famiy at the time of the reconquest in 1693. Circa 1694 he moved to the Chavez ancestral lands at Bernalillo, New Mexico. Don Diego de Vargas, then Governor of New Mexico, was taken gravely ill during an Indian Campaign in 1703 and died in the Chavez home. Don Fernando and his eldest son, Bernardo, signed as official witnesses okf his last will and testament. Don Fernando was dead by 1716 and Doña Lucia was buried on the third of February 1729 at Alburquerque, New Mexico.

Fernando — DE SALAS, Lucia Hurtado. Lucia died 3/03 Feb 1728/1729, New Mexico. [Group Sheet]

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Juan Antonio de Soto-Mayor Montano, or names reversed, had come to New Mexico as a convict shortly before the Indian Rebellion, although he is not listed with the 1677 group under Lazaro de Mizquia. He married after his arrival. In 1680 he passed muster as a convict with a complete set of weapons, his wife, a female servant, but no children. [Revolt, I, p. 157].

The next year he gave his age as thirty, when he was described as being of medium height, lisping in speech, and with a fair and pimply skin. [Revolt, I, pp 77, 99]. He was a native of Mexico City. [AASF, DM 1694, Nos. 19, 25, 29].

Juan Antonio Montano Soto-Mayor and his wife, Isabel Jorge de Vera, returned with Vargas in 1693 and settled in Santa Fe; after he husband's death, Isabel moved to the Rio Abajo.

Twice he is referred to as a native of Mexico City, he appeared as a witness in three nuptial investigations of 1694. But he was dead by 1696 when reference was made to his widow, Isabel Jorge de Vera, as a grand-daughter of Captain Antonio Baca of pre-revolt times. She died on November 25, 1736.

Three known sons were Jose, Juan and Lucas. Three of their daughters, Leonor, Magdalena and Juana, married three Duran y Chavez brothers, Luis, Antonio and Nicolas, respectively. A fourth, Polonia, became the wife of Salvador de Santisteban. Several of the children were born at Guadalupe del Paso during the twelve-year exile. These were Jose, Lucas, another Jose, Polonia, Leonor, Magdalena and Juana. The last three became the wives of three sons of Don Fernando Duran y Chavez.

Juan married DE VERA, Isabel Jorge Aft 1677. Isabel died 25 Nov 1736. [Group Sheet]

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Don Fernando Duran y Chavez, the "eldest son of his father," and named presumably after his grandfather, Hernan Sanchez Rico, inherited Don Pedro's encomienda and lost it later during a political fracas, during the term of Governor Pacheco. He is first mentioned in contemporary documents of 1638 when, as Lieutenant Governor of the Sandia or Rio Abajo jurisdiction he testified that he had accompanied Governor Rosas in an expedition to the Apotlapihuas. [Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico loc. cit., t. 385, ff. 8-9].

Testifying many years later, in 1660, he gave his age as forty-three, [Archivo General de la Nacional, Mexico, t. 666, f. 533]. so that, if born in 1617, he was the son of Isabel de Bohórques; nevertheless, he was older than his brother Pedro II. In 1644, on August 17, he had testified, that he was born in New Mexico and was thirty-five years old. His brother Pedro was thirty-three. [Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla, Patronato, leg. 244, Ramo 7, pp. 86, 92, 102.]

Don Fernando was embroiled in two major political crises, the first around the year 1640, and the second around 1660. The first was the Governor Rosas affair when he testified against him in favor of the friars, being a captain at the time. [Archivo General de la Nacional, Mexico, Inquisicion: t. 385, ff. 8-9; t. 425, f. 641.] He got into Governor Pacheco's good graces by attending the execution of eight conspirators in Santa Fe on July 21, 1643, and was appointed an Alcalde by him. However, when Pacheco turned against the friars, he took the friars' part. ["Church and State in New Mexico, 1610-1650" by France V. Scholes, Santa Fe, 1937]. Pacheco then condemned him and thirteen others to be executed for sedition. It seems that he escaped execution by fleeing from New Mexico, thus losing his encomienda. [Twitchell Collection, No. 280, ; " Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Otermin's Attempted Reconquest, 1680-1682, volume II", by Charles Wilson Hackett pp. 148, 166, Albuquerque, 1942.] For in 1646, he and his son, Don Agustín de Chavez were in the soldier escort that brought a new governor, Don Luis de Guzman, from Mexico City to Santa Fe. [Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla; Contad., leg. 740, Data.]

The next major issue, in 1660 and after, and for the same reasons, took place under the tenures of Governors López Mendizabal and Penalosa. At this time he was a Sargento Mayor. [Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico; loc. cit., t. 507, pp. 45-46, 85-86, 126, 744.] The crowning incident took place in August, 1663, when Governor Penalosa violated the right of sanctuary by removing Fernando's brother Pedro from the Mission at Santo Domingo Pueblo, and subsequently imprisoned him in the Palace of the Governors with Fernando and the latter's son, Cristobal. [Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico; loc. cit., t. 507, pt. 2, f. 361v.]

He died some years after, for in April, 1669, he is referred to as recently deceased. [Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico; loc. cit., t. 666, f. 533.] He might have died in an Indian expedition that he led in 1668. ["Historical Documents relating to New Mexico, Nueva Viscaya, and Approaches thereto, to 1773" Volume III, by Bandelier-Hackett, page 279.]

His land holdings, as can be inferred from those of his heirs, were those inherited from his father in the Sandia Jurisdiction, from the boundaries of San Felipe Pueblo down through Bernalillo to Atrisco. His wife was a Carvajal, a sister of Agustín de Carvajal. Their known children were Agustín, Cristobal, and Fernando II.

Fernando — DE CARBAJAL, MarÃa HolguÃn. [Group Sheet]