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[Chavez.FTW]
She wife of Don Pedro Duran y Chavez was Dona Isabel de Bohórques, who was four years old "more or less" in 1626, and knew how to write. She had a sister, Juana. [Archivo General de la Nacional, Mexico, Inquisicion, t. 356, f. 301. She owned a hacienda at a place called Arroyo del Tunque in the vicinity of San Felipe Pueblo, where a mulatto servant of Chavez had married a San Felipe woman[Archivo General de la Nacional, Mexico; Inquisicion, t. 372, exp. 19, f. 17]. Don Pedro was a brother-in-law of Antonio Baca; [Archivo General Nacional, Mexico; t. 356, f. 302] hence Isabel was really a Baca, one of the three girls mentioned with their parents in 1600. She was, perhaps, a second wife of his, but his first in New Mexico, since she was some twenty years younger.
From "The Adobe Kingdom" by Donald L. Lucero:
The Baca children, especially the girls who were young women when they came to New Mexico were soon marrying and establishing families of their own. Juan married Simón Perez de Bustillo; Isabel, don Pedro Durán y Chavez I; and MarÃa, Simón de Abendaño. Neither Juana nor Isabel could have had the slightest inkling that within two decades, they would be involved in arguably the greatest family tragedy to be suffered by the colony.
The girls, especially Isabel de Bohórquez had married well. Don Pedro Durán y Chavez I, who for some unknown reason, was always referred to by the honorific "don" reserved at this time for the governor, was an encomendero and held the highest military post in the kingdom. As a much younger man he had been a captain among Peralta's tribute collectors when diverted from his course at Nambe. By 1626 he was maese de campo of all the royal troops in New Mexico with Pedro Lucero de Godoy and the Bacas, Antonio and Alonso, all serving under his command. While the Abendaños and the Perez de Bustillos probably lived on the plain of Santa Fe, the Durán y Cháveses lived on their estancia (a large tract of land for raising livestock) at Arroyo de Tunque in the vicinity of the San Felipe Pueblo. Although the exact site of his encomienda is not known, it was likely at the San Felipe Pueblo. He held extensive land in the Sandia jurisdiction "from the boundries fo the San Felipe Pueblo down through Bernalillo to Atrisco".
Pedro Durán y Chavez I rose through the ranks of sargento (Sergeant), Capitan (captain), sargento Mayor (major) on his wasy to becoming a commanding general. He and his brothers-in-law served faithfully under several governors, one of whom was don Juan de Eulate who was to pay a major role in bothe the lives of the Pueblo Indians and the Church.
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Davis Uriah I | Born 1707
Abt 1586 - Yes, date unknown
, d. Bef Apr 1669, Kingdom of New Mexico