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- [S366] Origins of New Mexico Families (A Genealogy of the Spanish ColonialPeriod), 19, 23.
he wife of Don Pedro Duran y Chavez was Dona Isabel de Bohorquez, who wasfor years old "more or less" in 1626, and knew how to write. She had asister, Juana. [Archivo General de la Nacional, Mexico, Inquisicion, t.356, f. 301.]Don Pedro was a brother-in-law of Antonio Baca; [ArchivoGeneral 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 wassome twenty years younger.
- [S384] The Adobe Kingdom, 42.
The Baca children, especially the girls who were young women when theycame to New Mexico were soon marrying and establishing families of theirown. Juan married Simón Perez de Bustillo; Isabel, don Pedro Durán yChavez I; and MarÃ, Simón de Abendaño. Neither Juana nor Isabel couldhave had the slightest inkling that within two decades, they would beinvolved in arguably the greatest family tragedy to be suffered by thecolony.
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