CARVAJAL, Juan De Vitoria

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Carvajal, Juan de Vitoria - (b 1561-62) (Ayotepel, NS) son of Juan de Carvajal (Ayotepel); husband of Isabel Holguín. One of Oñate's original settlers, this parent was desbribed in 1598 and later in 1600, as having a medium stature and a chestnut beard, well-featured and having a mark on the right side of the face above the left eye. (Origins 14) (Clan 22-23) (Kiva 77) (Juan Holguín 258), (Adobe Kingdom 15, 19, 25, 115, Chart II).

Juan — HOLGUIN, Isabel. (daughter of HOLGUIN, Juan Lopez and DE VILLANUEVA, Catalina) [Group Sheet]

MarÃa — DURAN Y. CHAVEZ, Fernando Don. Fernando (son of DURAN Y. CHAVEZ, Pedro Don and DE BOHÃRQUEZ, Isabel) was born 1609; died Bef Apr 1669. [Group Sheet]

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Carvajal, Juana de (b 1624 ?) (d 1683) San Lorenzo; probably the daughter of Juan de Virtocia Carvajal; Juana was the first wife of Juan Lucero de Godoy (Origins 16, 60) Adobe Kingdom 77, chart II

Juana — LUCERO DE GODOY, Juan. Juan (son of LUCERO DE GODOI, Pedro and DE ZAMORA, Petronila) was born 1624; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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Carvajal, Gerónimo de - (b 1630) (d by 1680) (Lived at his estancia, Nuestra Señora de los Remedios de los Cerrillos) Gerónimo was the son of Juan de Vitoria Carvajal, husband of Margarita Márquez (B 1643) (Origins 15) (Kiva 182, 129, 206), AK 56, 63.

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Don Cristóbal Duran y Chavez was imprisoned with his father and his uncle Pedro in 1663. Still single in that year, he gave his age as twenty-four, stating that he was a resident of the Sandia district. [Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico, t. 507, pt. 2, ff. 134, 232, 271-272, 784.]

In the following year he said that he was twenty-five, still at Sandia, and married to Catalina Dominguez de Mendoza, who was a daughter of Tome Dominguez II and Catalina López Mederos. [Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico, page 239.]

In 1667 he pulled out a dagger on a friar for writing satires on certain New Mexicans. [Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico, Inquisicion, t. 610, ff. 123-124.] As he does not appear in the 1680 lists, it is presumed that he was dead or had left New Mexico

From "To the Royal Crown Restored, The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico 1692-1694" by John L. Kessell, Rick Hendricks and Meredith Dodge, editors:

34. Cristóbal Durán was born in New Mexico around 1665 to Sgto. mayor Fernando Durán y Chavez and was first cousin to another Cristóbal Durán. He and his father enlisted as settlers for New Mexico on 26 September 1681 in El Paso. Both passed muster at the Ancón de Fray García in November of the same year.
NMF, 21-22. RPI, 2:71, 108, 200.

Author's Note: This is the first instance of the use of the surname "Duran" only instead of "Chavez y Durn or just "Chavez". This usage of the name "Durán" by the son of Fernando Durán y Chavez supports the theory first suggested to me by historian Emma Moya that the Durán surname came from a branch of the Durán y Chavez family in New Mexico.

From the article in "Herencia" - the journal of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico, "From Duran y Chavez to Martinez" by Daniel E. Martinez:

Don Cristobal Duran y Chavez was born circa 1639. He married Doña Catalina Dominguez de Mendoza, daughter of Don Tome Dominguez (ii) and Doña Catalina Lopez Mederos.

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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.