DURAN Y. CHAVEZ, Fernando Don

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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 — TIME, Unknown At This. [Group Sheet]

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

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Bernardo Duran y Chavez, who signed the will of Vargas along with his father, Don Fernando Duran y Chavez, in 1704, remained with his wife and children at Bernalillo. He gave his age as twenty in a Deligencia Matrimonales done in 1695. In 1705, when playing an Indian-scare prank, he was accidentally shot and mortally wounded by a Gallegos cousin, leaving his young wife and three small children. He was buried on November 17, 1705.

Bernardo had married Francisca de Mizquia at Santa Fe in 1699. They had two boys and a girl: Jose, April 24, 1700; Maria Manuela, June 15, 1703; and Juan, February 16, 1705. In their mother's last will in 1714, the girl is mentioned as Lucia Manuela; their mother was married to Juan de Ulibarri at this time. One son, Jose, was married and living at Guadalupe del Paso in 1769, while his brother Juan resided in Santa Fe; Luisa (or Lucia) was already dead.

From the book, "The Adobe Kingdom" by Donald L. Lucero: Durán y Chavez, Bernardo (b 1675) (Buried 11-19-1705) (El Tunque) son of Fernando Durán y Chavez; husband of Francisca de Misquia (M-01-02-1699 in Santa Fe)(d1714 ?)(Origins 161) (Clan 41, 59, 61, 63, 80-82)

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According to Fray Angelico Chavez in his book "Origins of New Mexico Families". Pedro Duran y Chavez married Juana Montoya on January 27, 1703. His was one of the supposed "twelve" founding families of Albuquerque in 1706. [New Mexico Historical Review, Volume 4, No. 3, page 274]. In 1713 he was a squadron leader of the militia and conducted ex-Governor Felix Martinez back to Mexico City; but he resigned in 1716 because of illness; yet he is numbered among those who took part in the Moqui campaign of this year. [Spanish Archives, I, No. 1117; Nos. 198, 250, 297; Bancroft, New Mexico Originals, 1716-Manuscripts collected by H. H. Bancroft, and now in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. They are described in "New Mexico Historical Review", Vol. XXV, No. 3, pp. 248-252 - Also "Libros de Entradas y Recepciones", etc., three manuscript volumes in "Mexican MSS" section, Nos. 216, 217, 218.]

In March, 1735, his estate was probated due to the fact that he was dying, having been out of his senses for some time. But he rallied enough to draw up his will, and died on December 7, 1735. After Bernardo's death he had come into possession of his father's will, but due to his illness it had passed into the hands of the next brother, Antonio, who was absent from "the Kingdom" at this time. [Spanish Archives, I, No. 177].

Pedro had ten children by Juana Montoya, name in the will as follows: Manuela, wife of Sebastian Marcelino; Monica, wife of Antonio Baca; Josefa, married to Francisco Sanchez; Efigenia, wife of Jacinto Sanchez; Francisco Xavier; Quiteria; Juana; and three minors who had been placed with their uncle, Francisco Duran y Chavez, when Pedro married a second time. These minors were; Diego Antonio, twelve; Maria Luisa, ten, and Eusebio, eight. [Spanish Archives, I, No. 177].

Pedro's second wife was Gertrudis Sanchez by whom he had five children, one of them dead, but none are mentioned by name in the will. This marriage took place on January 12, 1728. [AASF M-3, Albq]. The four living children are found elsewhere as follows: Salvador Manuel, born on June 9, 1731; Jose, born on June 1, 1733, [AASF, both in B-2, Albuq.], who married twice, lived in Bernalillo, had many children [Spanish Archives, I, No. 250], and was the Jose Chavez of New Mexico killed by Apaches near El Paso, December 9, 1772 [Buried, Guadalupe del Paso ]; a daughter, not named, who was married to Antonio Gutierrez, [Spanish Archives, loc.cit.]; and a Pedro II, referred to years later as a son of old Pedro, [AASF, DM 1766, in Albuq, no. number; evidently the man who became Pedro Otero], who was therefore the fourth living child of this marriage.

Of the unmarried daughters by the first wife mentioned in Pedro's will, Quiteria finally married a Bernardo Padilla after some trouble; [Spanish Archives, I, No. 196]; Maria Luisa (Lucia) reared by her Uncle Francisco, could very well be the woman who married Miguel Montoya as Francisco's daughter; Juana seems to be the one who married Domingo Baca.

Of the sons by the first wife, Francisco Xavier, the eldest son among many girls, was considered a wastrel by his sisters; [Spanish Archives, I, No. 196]; Diego Antonio, the next son but very much younger, among the minors of his father's will, married his third cousin, Juana Silva, December 14, 1740 [AASF, M-11, Isleta]. If his elder brother was the wastrel that his sisters accused him of being, it explains how Diego Antonio could have inherited the original Chavez document and signet-ring later inherited by Colonel Manuel Antonio Chavez of Civil War fame. Eusebio, the youngest son, married Vibiana Martin Serrano on August 19, 1752 [AASF, M-3, Albuq.]; he vainly tried to get grants and honors on the merits of his ancestors for himself and sons, Blas and Juan Miguel, in 1774, and is said to have voyaged to Spain for the purpose [Spanish Archives, II, Nos. 675, 686; Twitchell's note, Ibid., pp. 254-5-For more details on this family, see "El Palacio, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 154-160.].[Thomas Robert Chavez Ancestors.FTW]

According to Fray Angelico Chavez in his book "Origins of New Mexico Families". Pedro Duran y Chavez married Juana Montoya on January 27, 1703. His was one of the supposed "twelve" founding families of Albuquerque in 1706. [New Mexico Historical Review, Volume 4, No. 3, page 274]. In 1713 he was a squadron leader of the militia and conducted ex-Governor Felix Martinez back to Mexico City; but he resigned in 1716 because of illness; yet he is numbered among those who took part in the Moqui campaign of this year. [Spanish Archives, I, No. 1117; Nos. 198, 250, 297; Bancroft, New Mexico Originals, 1716-Manuscripts collected by H. H. Bancroft, and now in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. They are described in "New Mexico Historical Review", Vol. XXV, No. 3, pp. 248-252 - Also "Libros de Entradas y Recepciones", etc., three manuscript volumes in "Mexican MSS" section, Nos. 216, 217, 218.]

In March, 1735, his estate was probated due to the fact that he was dying, having been out of his senses for some time. But he rallied enough to draw up his will, and died on December 7, 1735. After Bernardo's death he had come into possession of his father's will, but due to his illness it had passed into the hands of the next brother, Antonio, who was absent from "the Kingdom" at this time. [Spanish Archives, I, No. 177].

Pedro had ten children by Juana Montoya, name in the will as follows: Manuela, wife of Sebastian Marcelino; Monica, wife of Antonio Baca; Josefa, married to Francisco Sanchez; Efigenia, wife of Jacinto Sanchez; Francisco Xavier; Quiteria; Juana; and three minors who had been placed with their uncle, Francisco Duran y Chavez, when Pedro married a second time. These minors were; Diego Antonio, twelve; Maria Luisa, ten, and Eusebio, eight. [Spanish Archives, I, No. 177].

Pedro's second wife was Gertrudis Sanchez by whom he had five children, one of them dead, but none are mentioned by name in the will. This marriage took place on January 12, 1728. [AASF M-3, Albq]. The four living children are found elsewhere as follows: Salvador Manuel, born on June 9, 1731; Jose, born on June 1, 1733, [AASF, both in B-2, Albuq.], who married twice, lived in Bernalillo, had many children [Spanish Archives, I, No. 250], and was the Jose Chavez of New Mexico killed by Apaches near El Paso, December 9, 1772 [Buried, Guadalupe del Paso ]; a daughter, not named, who was married to Antonio Gutierrez, [Spanish Archives, loc.cit.]; and a Pedro II, referred to years later as a son of old Pedro, [AASF, DM 1766, in Albuq, no. number; evidently the man who became Pedro Otero], who was therefore the fourth living child of this marriage.

Of the unmarried daughters by the first wife mentioned in Pedro's will, Quiteria finally married a Bernardo Padilla after some trouble; [Spanish Archives, I, No. 196]; Maria Luisa (Lucia) reared by her Uncle Francisco, could very well be the woman who married Miguel Montoya as Francisco's daughter; Juana seems to be the one who married Domingo Baca.

Of the sons by the first wife, Francisco Xavier, the eldest son among many girls, was considered a wastrel by his sisters; [Spanish Archives, I, No. 196]; Diego Antonio, the next son but very much younger, among the minors of his father's will, married his third cousin, Juana Silva, December 14, 1740 [AASF, M-11, Isleta]. If his elder brother was the wastrel that his sisters accused him of being, it explains how Diego Antonio could have inherited the original Chavez document and signet-ring later inherited by Colonel Manuel Antonio Chavez of Civil War fame. Eusebio, the youngest son, married Vibiana Martin Serrano on August 19, 1752 [AASF, M-3, Albuq.]; he vainly tried to get grants and honors on the merits of his ancestors for himself and sons, Blas and Juan Miguel, in 1774, and is said to have voyaged to Spain for the purpose [Spanish Archives, II, Nos. 675, 686; Twitchell's note, Ibid., pp. 254-5-For more details on this family, see "El Palacio, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 154-160.].

Pedro married MONTOYA, Juana 27/27 Jan 1702/1703, Bernalillo, Kingdom of New Mexico. (daughter of MONTOYA, Diego and DE HINOJOS, Josefa) [Group Sheet]

Pedro married SANCHEZ, Gertrudis 12/12 Jan 1727/1728, Alburquerque, Kingdom of New Mexico. [Group Sheet]

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Antonio Duran y Chavez was ailing in 1705 when his father, Don Fernando, asked for his position as commander of the soldiers at Atrisco but in 1712 he was perfectly healthy when engaged in fights with his father and brother Francisco again a certain individual.

He was first married to Magdalena Montano, by who he had a least two children: Maria, born in 1707 and Fernando, in 1708.

On March 23, 1718, after complicated dispensations were granted, Antonio, widowed of his first wife, married a cousin, Antonia Baca. As previously stated, Antonio was in possession of his famous father's last will,which in the nineteenth century was in the family of General Jose Maria Chavez. Antonio died on May 12, 1738. His widow died many years after at the age of seventy-five, on February 15, 1770.

No wills by Antonio or his wife Antonia Baca are extant. Some of their sons, gathered from different sources, are as follows: Cristobal, Miguel, Jose, Juan Antonio, Tomas, Francisco, and Santiago. Three known girls were: Feliciana, who married Manuel Baca; Lucia Ana, wife of Felipe Romero and Maria, who drowned in the Rio del Norte at the age of eleven in 1742.

Of the sons, Cristobal, on a trip to Mexico City brought a bride, Maria Josefa Nunez and they had their velacion at Laguna, where his sister Feliciana's husband was Alcalde Mayor, on June 30, 1756.

Miguel, mentioned as brother of Cristobal, perhaps his twin, and a sponsor with his mother, married Gertrudis Santisteban of Santa Fe, October 20, 1754.

Jose married Juana Baca on October 15, 1758.

Juan Antonio, who appeared as a sponsor with his mother and with his sister Feliciana, married Tomasa Padilla, December 3, 1742.

Francisco appeared once as a sponsor with his mother.

Santiago, born in 1733, married Maria Luisa Paez, daughter of Ramon Paez and Manuela Velarde, at Guadalupe del Paso in 1761, and brought her back home; his mother and brother Juan Antonio were sponsors for a child of theirs in 1768.

Antoniorosalido — MONTAÃO, MarÃa Magdalena. MarÃa (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 Bef 23/23 Mar 1717/1718. [Group Sheet]

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Francisco Duran y Chavez married Juana Baca, "the younger", daughter of Juana Baca, "the Elder". In his brother Pedro's will he is mentioned as having adopted Pedro's three minor children by his first wife.

He and Juana Baca had at least eight children: Miguel Antonio, born November 26, 1735, who married Francisca Baca, August 28, 1781; Jose Vicente, born February 14, 1730; Agustine, who died young on January 7, 741; Ignacio, who married Gregoria Maese, and then Ursula Sanchez in 1770; Margarita, born January 3, 1734, who married Salvador Garcia in 1761; Juana, born January 10, 1744; Maria, who died young on May 9, 1744; and Lucia, very likely the child of his brother, Pedro, who became the wife of Miguel Montoya.

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Luis Duran y Chavez married Leonar Montano, by whom he had a daughter, Antonia. He died relatively young prior to 1716, when his widow remarried in Santa Fe. His brother Antonio bought his Atrisco inheritance from his widow.

Luis married MONTAÃO, Leonor 13 Jun 1708. Leonor (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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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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Pedro Gomez Duran y Chavez was born when aging Don Fernando must have been pre-occupied with the past. for, although he had an elder brother name Pedro, this last child receive the full name of Don Fernando's grandfather, "Pedro Gomez Duran" as his baptismal name. Later he was referred to also as "Pedro de Chavez el Meno" or by the nickname of "Perico" (little Pedro), when living with the famiy at Atrisco. He was still there in 1732 when he sold the lands of his inheritance to Bernabe Baca and to the widow of his brother Antonio. But three years later he was living in the Rio Arriba country.

On July 6, 1737, Pedro Gomes de Chavez married Petrona Martin. There were still living in Ojo Caliente of Rio Arriba in 1742. He is the only son of Don Fernando who settled in the country north of Santa Fe, but so far, it is not known who his children were.

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From "Origins of New Mexico Families" by Fray Angelico Chavez, "Of the sons by the first wife, Francisco Xavier was considered a wastrel by his sisters; [Spanish Archives, I, No. 177], he was the man of this name who married Manuela Padilla on September 29, 1735. . [AASF, M-11, Isleta]

From the Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe: Isleta Marriages 1726-1846 #37
29 Sept 1735 - Francisco Xavier Duran y Chabes m. Manuela Padilla. Pad: Bernabe Baca and Margarita Mata.

From the Prenuptial Investigation of Joaquín García Villegas and María Josefa de Baca, Parral, January 14, February 1781, AHAD-92, f. 115-30:
Joaquín García Villegas, more than 20, a native of Parral jurisdiction, was the legitimate son of Joaquín García Villegas and (illegible), María Josefa de Baca, 15, a citizen of the Parral jurisdiction, was the legitimate daughter of Francisco Baca and Paula Rubí. Fray Jose Francisco de Frías, conducted the proceedings at Parral before the notary, Felix Mariano de Bajarano.

Witness: Melchor Rodríguez, 40, married, citizen of the Parral jurisdiction, had known the couple since they were children.

Santiago Muñoz, 49, widower, citizen of the Parral jurisdiction.

Jose Rodríguez, 35, signle, citizen of the Parral jurisdiction.

The banns were ordered published. On 27 January 1781, Father Frías noted that the widow Ana de Enríquez, 54, citizen of the Parral jurisdiction, had heard the second reading and come forward with an impediment based on a relationship in the fourth degree equally of consanguinity. This was because Francisco Javier Chavez, the natural son of Tome Domínguez, used the surname Chavez because he was an orphan raised in the home of Pedro Chavez. Tome was the brother of Francisco Domínguez, great-grandfather of the petitioning couple, which produced the impediment.

As a result of this charge, Frías suspended the third reading of the banns, and the couple was told of the denunciation and called to retestify. They stated that at the time of their first testimony they had been ignorant of any fourth-degree consanguinity relationship equally on a transverse line and of the fact that Francisco Javier Chavez was the natural son of Tome Dominguez. They still wished to marry with the bishop's dispensation. García Villegas prepared a lengthy statement identifying Matiana de Chavez as his mother. She was a second cousin of Francisco Baca, Josefa's Father.

Witnesses: On 3 February 1781 Bernardo Ronquillo, 60, married citizens of the Parral jurisdiction said it was public knowledge that Tome Domínguez was the father of Francisco Javier Chavez. Francisco Javier was called Chavez because he had been raised by Pedro Chavez.

Franciscoxavier married PADILLA, Manuela 29 Sep 1755, Isleta, New Mexico. (daughter of DE PADILLA, Diego Don and DE LARA, MarÃa VÃsquez DoÃa) [Group Sheet]

MarÃaquiteria married PADILLA, Bernardo Don 1735. Bernardo (son of DE PADILLA, Diego Don and DE LARA, MarÃa VÃsquez DoÃa) was born 1724; died Bef 30 Oct 1796. [Group Sheet]

Diego married DE SILBA, Juana 1740. (daughter of DE SILBA, Anttonio and RUIZ, Gregoria) [Group Sheet]

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7. Vicente Chavez, also listed in his father's will, can be further identified as a son of Nicolas D. y Chavez, through some family connections. As a brother of Luis and Fernando Chavez previously treated, he was married to a Gertrudis Sánchez. The had a daughter named Victoria Chavez who in 1774, as an española and twenty, the daughter of Vicente Chavez and Gertrudis Sánches, was asked for in marriage by Vicente Luna, also and Español and twenty, the son of Domingo Luna and Josefa Lucero, both deceased.

But here a puzzle is posed by a certain matrimonial investigation of that same year of 1774. Vicente Luna had first asked to marry a María Barbara Chavez, daughter of Francisco D. y Chavez; but she was a first and second cousin, and for some reason the wedding did not take place. It was then that Vicenta Luna asked to marry that Victoria Chavez, daughter of Vicente Chavez, and here a matrimonial witness testified that the pair were not first cousins as in the previous case because her father Vicente Chavez was not really a son of Nicolás Chavez, brother of Francisco D. y Chavez! Whether this allegation was true or not, the marriage of Luna and Victoria seems to have taken place, with or without the required dispensations. As for Victoria Chavez herself, she later contract marriage during October of 1782 with Juan Francisco Pino of Los Lunas, the son of Don Mateo Jose Pino and Doña Teresa Sánchez, both deceased (and also treated previously in connections with Pedro Bautista Pino). Here they were dispensed from a large number of relationships, from straight second cousins to second and third oblique cousins by blood, and from first and third cousins by affinity.

There was also a son, Francisco Chavez, identified as a son of Vicente Chavez and a nephew of Luis Chavez in a pre-nuptial investigation of 1838. This was when María Serafina Chavez, daughter of this younger Don Francisco Chavez, deceased, and Doña María Antonia Montoya, in 1838 married a Jose Torres, son of Don Jose María Torres and Doña Juana Baca, the pair being related twice in various degrees as descendants of both Luis and Vicente Chavez.

Rosa — DE SILBA, Francisco. Francisco (son of DE SILBA, Anttonio and RUIZ, Gregoria) was born 1699; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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1. Jose Chavez married María Luisa Aragón on February 3, 1732, and seems to have been a normal fellow plagued by certain troubles, although we know of only one interesting episode in connection with his good wife and a grandchild of theirs. In 1766 his widow brought suit against a Don Pedro Yturrieta for trying to impede the wedding of her grand-daughter María Rita Yturrieta whom she had reared since infancy. This fellow, the son of a newcomer to New Mexico and of unknown origin, had married her daughter María Chavez on May 17, 1751; subsequently, and much against his wife's will, he had gone off to Mexico City and stayed there for more than a year. Meanwhile María Chavez had give birth to their child, this María Rita, but whom he refused to acknowledge as his upon his return. Ever since then Luisa Aragón and her late husband had brought up this their grandchild, and now, after all these years, her estranged father was trying to interfere with her wedding.

All of the witnesses who were called to testify strongly spoke in Luisa's favor and she appears to have won the case. Yet, Pedro Yturrieta and his wife María Chavez must have gotten together again following his return from Mexico City and his refusal to acknowledge the first girl as his own child. Whetehr he accepted her or not after a period of time, her Aragón grandmother had insisted on keeping her as her own ward. All this one gathers from the fact that the couple had another child who, at Belen in 1776, as Petra Vitalia Yturrieta, española and the daughter of Pedro Yturrieta and María Chavez, married a Bartolome Trujillo

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Bernardo Chavez was the real oddball among his brothers. He was already forty-two and still unmarried in 1762 when, as Don Bernardo Durán y Chavez, español of San Clemente, the son of capitán Don Nicolás Durán y Chavez and Doña Juana Montaño, also of San Clemente (Los Lunas), asked to marry none other than a woman named simply María de la Luz. She was an "india criada" of the Aá Nation, and old Don Fernando would have spun in his grave, were this possible for mere dust and ashes.

Now, ethnologists whom I (Fray Angelico Chávez] have consulted have been unable to identify this Aá tribe, often mentioned in the records. But this is most likely the solution. Far back in 1542, Coronado's men had found a lains Indian settlement called "Haxa" (pronounced "Asha"), and the early Franciscan chroniclers of New Spain then wrote that Fray Juan de Padilla, the first North American martyr, had been killed in that year by wild Indians called "Haciaëles" or aciales. Decades ago, the eminent Dr. F. W. Hodge identified all such old terms with a Wichita tribe called the Aiish, hence oldish Bernardo's bride could well have been a Wichita.

There is no record of any child Bernardo and his squaw might have had during their brief marriage, for she was dead by 1771 when the aging widower tried to marry again. In this very year, at Isleta, Don Bernardo Durán y Chavez, español and forty-four, and of El Puesto de Guadalupe (Los Chavez), the son of Don Nicolás Durán y Chavez, deceased, and Doña Juana Montaño, and widowed of María Luz Benavides (surname of her original master), asked to marry María Josefa Núñez, española and forty, the widow of Cristóbal Chavez and a native of Mexico City residing at El Puesto de San Andres. Here is where the oldish squawman Bernardo claimed that there was no need for a dispensation for him to marry his first cousin's widow, saying that Cristóbal Chavez was not the son of Antonio Chavez but an adulterous son of his wife Antonia Baca by an Eusebio Rael de Aguilar (that young swain of 1718 who had tried to marry Don Fernando's eldest daughter, Isabel!). Anyway, the marriage did not take place because of the outlandish charges he had brought up.

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From the book: "Chávez, A Distinctive American Clan in New Mexico" by Fray Angelico Chávez:

Antonio Chavez, the next son of Nicolás. From a careful investigation of others having the same name, he was in all probability this son who listed in his father's will. At Isleta on April 13, 1750, he married Barbara Padilla, the daughter of Diego de Padilla and María Vásquez Baca. Two of their children whom we know from their own respective marriages were María Gertrudis and Santiago, and both of them are here singled out and treated at some length because of particular descendants each of them had.

From Carlos LoPopolo's Book, "The Chavez Family", page 38:
A3f5. Antonio Duran y Chavez, who was born in 1728, married Maria barbara Padilla in 1750. It seems that Antonio and Maria moved to the settlement of Los Chavez in the 1760's. This union produced at least three children. They were:
A3f5a. Pedro Gonzales Duran y Chavez married Antonia Rafaela Lobera
A3f5b. Santiago Duan y Chavez married Maria de la Luz Garcia Jurado
A3f5c. Juan Baptisita Duran y Chavez, who was born in 1767, married Maria Josefa Garcia Jurado
A3f5d. Alejandro Delfin Duran y Chavez was born in 1777

Antonio married PADILLA, MarÃabarbara 13 Apr 1750, San Augustin de la Isleta Church, Isleta, Province of New Mexico. MarÃabarbara (daughter of DE PADILLA, Diego Don and DE LARA, MarÃa VÃsquez DoÃa) was born Abt 27/27 Feb 1734/1735, Isleta, New Mexico; died Bef 3 Nov 1793. [Group Sheet]

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On March 20, 1751, this María Antonia married Tadeo Romero, the son of Matías Romero and Angela Teresa Vallejo. He was descended in a direct line from Bartolome Romero and Luisa Robledo, a married couple from Toldeo which had arrived in 1598; Bartolome was Oñate's artillery captain who made the conquest of Acoma possible in that year, and both were the parents of the 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 the Matías Romero by who she had this Tadeo Romero [Genealogy: María Antonia Duran y Chavez, Manuel Romero, Jose Encarnación Chavez, Jose Francisco Chavez, Eugenio Chavez, Fabian Chavez, Fray Angelico Chavez]

Finally, in 1768 Doña María Antonia Chavez, forty and the widow of Tadeo Romero, daughter of Don Nicolas de Chavez and Doña Juana Montaño, married a Domingo Baca, thirty, an español of San Gabriel de las Nutrias whose parent were not given. A witness was her youngest brother Francisco who lived in El Rancho de Guadalupe (Los Chavez) in the Isleta District. Maria Antonia Chavez had three husbands, the first two having an interesting historical background.

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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]

Francisco married ROMERO, Josefa 15 May 1782, San Augustin de la Isleta Church, Isleta, Province of New Mexico. (daughter of ROMERO, Andres and JARAMILLO, Antonia) [Group Sheet]

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Chavez (gp) Maria Simona
bap 29 Oct 1735; d/Francisco Xabier (n.s.) & Manuela (n.s.); gp/Antonio (n.s.) & Petra Chabes
Frame 39, AASF, Isleta Baptisms #5

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Plaza No. 2 of Valencia
317. Domingo Chavez, S, 28, rancher; m. Ma Gertrudis Aragon, S, 28; 3 sons: 8, 6, 5; 1 daughter: 1; 1 female orphan, S: 14.
[Spanish Archives, microfilm roll no. 12, Frame 331]

Juandomingo married PADILLA, AgustinalucÃa DoÃa 16 Jun 1764, San Augustine de la Isleta Church, Isleta, New Mexico. AgustinalucÃa (daughter of PADILLA, Francisco Don and BACA, Isabel) was born 28 Aug 1734; died Bef 23 Jun 1789, New Mexico. [Group Sheet]

Juandomingo married AGUIRRE, MarÃa Manuela DoÃa 3 May 1779, Isleta, New Mexico. MarÃa died Bef 20 Oct 1817. [Group Sheet]

Juandomingo married ARAGON, MarÃagertrudis Bef 1790. MarÃagertrudis was born 1762; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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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.

From the 1790 Spanish Census of the Province of New Mexico, From the Spanish Archives of New Mexico, microfilm Roll #12, Available at the New Mexico Records Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Page 39 in Virginia Langham Olmsted's "New Mexico Spanish and Mexican Censuses of 1790, 1823, 1845: From Frame 346, Plaza No. 5 of Los Chavez-
716 Balthazar Chavez, S, 27, rancher; m. Ma Gerts Romero, S, 21; 4 sons, 22, 13, 8; 1 male servant, I:11

Josebaltasar married ROMERO, MarÃa Gertrudis 17 Nov 1783, San Augustin de la Isleta, Isleta, Nuevo Mexico. MarÃa (daughter of ROMERO, Andres and JARAMILLO, Antonia) was born 1769; died Bef 1830. [Group Sheet]