Pacheco

In March 1632, fray Pedro Sambrano, the friar at the Pueblo of Galisteo, mentioned the name of Gerónimo Pacheco (ONMF: 83), who was described as a mestizo and a soldier (see above image from Archivo General de la Nación, Inquisición, t. 304, 190r: "pedro de la cruz+ y Jer[oni]mo pacheco soldados mestizos").

In September 1632, Luis Pacheco, a soldier, offered a statement in the investigation of the bigamy case against Juan Antón, a mulatto accused of being married first in Mapimí and then in New Mexico to a Mexican Indian women named Ana. Luis Pacheco declared he was a vecino of Santa Fe and gave his age as forty (born circa 1592). He mentioned he was at “the estancias of las güertas in the house of Juan Antón on 10 December 1631.” Pacheco referred to Las Güertas as being “junta del Pueblo de Sandia” (next to Sandia Pueblo) (Archivo General de la Nación, Inquisición, t. 304, f. 181).

This Luis Pacheco appears to be the same individual who identified as Alférez Real Luis de Zubía Pacheco, native of the Ciudad de Durango, who was one of eight soldiers that escorted Governor don Alonso Pacheco, to New Mexico between December 1641 to August 1642 (Archivo General de Indias, Contaduría, leg. 926, pliego no. 2, 51: 1-3) .

Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel

Sources: Cited in text.