Hurtado

Status

As of January 2016, there is still no records uncovered that identifies the names of the parents of Andrés Hurtado (ONMF: 49). A promising lead was posted on the original BONMF web site. More research is required.

Promising Lead

Andrés Hurtado (ONMF: 49) was a native of Zacatecas, born circa 1628. There is a record of veiling found in the Zacatecas marriage book for Pedro Hurtado and Catalina de Salazar dated 17 July 1617. The record reads:

En diez y seis de Jullio del año de seiscientos y diez y siete as^o velo El Lic^do Di^o de herr^a y Atriaga [Diego de Herrera y Arteaga] cura bn^do. a p^ot hurtado y a catalina de salazar, fueron sus padrinos Ju^o co--cais [illegible] y Juana maria su mujer vs^o [vecino] de esta ciudad.

If it can be proven that Andrés Hurtado, native of Zacatecas and a settler of New Mexico in the seventeenth century, was a son of Pedro Hurtado and Catalina de Salazar, this would offer an explanation for the use of the Salazar surname by his daughters (Lucía de Salazar, Isabel de Salazar, María de Salazar —ONMF: 49).

Further research into land records and civil records of Zacatecas may produce some promising results regarding the Hurtado family.

Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel

Source: LDS microfilm #0283371 (Marriage Investigations, Sagrario, Zacatecas) —this microfilm contains an early book of marriages dating from 14 February 1606 - 7 November 1619).

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HURTADO - SALAS y TRUJILLO

Andrés Hurtado (ONMF: 49) held a grievance against Governor don Bernardo López de Mendizábal for having been recalled as an official of the Moqui province and compelled under penalty of death to appear before the governor in Santa Fe within ten days of the summons, being forced to travel in the extreme cold of winter during January 1661 with his wife [Bernardina de Salas y Trujillo] and five children, ages nine and younger. In this year he held the position of a regidor (town councilman) of the Villa de Santa Fe, and his house where he resided with his wife and children was sixteen leagues from Santa Fe in the area of the Pueblo of Zia. The governor contended that as an encomendero, Hurtado was required to maintain a house in the Villa de Santa Fe. In addition, Hurtado lived at the Pueblo of Santa Ana and this was prohibited by law.

Hurtado received the governor’s order on 29 January 1661 while in the Moqui Province, a distance of 100 leagues from the Villa de Santa Fe. He left the Moqui area in the company of the friar who was the visitador of the province to travel to his home. From his home he then traveled to the Pueblo of Zia with his wife and five children, the oldest being nine years of age. Despite the extreme winter weather, which he referred to as “tan rigoroso y de tantas niebas“ (“very harsh and with much snow”), they traveled sixteen leagues (approximately 39 miles) on “el camino” and along the way his youngest daughter, just over four months of age, suffered frostbite of one of her feet, and the trip caused his wife ill health.

Andrés Hurtado further mentioned that he had come to New Mexico twelve years earlier, “en dose años q^e estoy en esta reyno” (circa 1649), and that he always remained “querido y estimado de todos los becinos y religiosos desta reyno como es publica vos y fama” (“loved and esteemed by all the vecinos and religious of this kingdom, as is well known publicly”). He stated he did not have a house in Santa Fe because he was unable to sustain and support himself and his family in the villa. He lost livestock due to severe winter weather and had to move himself and his family into the house of Sargento Mayor Francisco de Madrid for two months. He mentioned he lost 84 head of livestock and was robbed of 80 fanegas of wheat. Andrés Hurtado signed his declaration, which was dated 17 October 1661, Santa Fe.

His wife has been identified by fray Angélico Chávez as Bernardina de Salas y Trujillo (also known as Bernardina de Salas y Orozco). Chávez indicated that Andrés Hurtado was referred to as a son-in-law of Diego Trujillo (ONMF: 10). The original source (AGN Tierras, t. 3268, f. 94) refers to Capitán Diego de Trujillo as an encomendero and then mentions “su hijo Capⁿ Franco de Truj^o y sus yernos Capⁿ Xptoval Vaca y Capⁿ Andres Hurtado.” This record clearly indicates that the wives of Cristóbal Baca and Andrés Hurtado (Ana Moreno de Lara and Bernardina de Salas y Trujillo, respectively) were daughters of Capitán Diego de Trujillo, and thus they were sisters of Francisco de Trujillo.

Fray Angélico Chávez referred to Bernardina de Salas y Trujillo as a daughter of Francisco de Trujillo, but did not provide a specific source citation for this statement. It appears that there may have been some confusion that resulted in the inconsistency with his previous statement about Andrés Hurtado being his son-in-law. Chávez also mentioned that Bernardina de Salas was a “granddaughter of María de Vera,” but once again did not give a specific source citation for the statement.

Based on the declaration of Andrés Hurtado that he arrived in New Mexico in 1649 and was married and had a family of five children in 1661, the eldest of which was nine years of age (born circa 1652), we can estimate the year of marriage with Bernardina de Salas y Trujillo as circa 1649-1651. As such Bernardina de Salas y Trujillo was a contemporary of Francisco de Trujillo, rather than his daughter. This further supports the statement that Andrés Hurtado was a son-in-law of Diego de Trujillo.

Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel

Source: AGN, Tierras, t. 3268, f. 60vff.