Salas-García

Status: The paternal lineage of this Salas family that traces to Bernardo de Salas and Josefa de Morales, goes back to the mid-1600s in the City of Sevilla. It is not known if this couple came to Nueva España, but their son, Sebastián de Salas, made his way to Puebla de Los Ángeles where he married María García Canales before he and María came to New Mexico in 1694.

To date, no additional information about the Salas-Morales family of Sevilla has been uncovered.

The marriage record of Sebastián de Salas (ONMF: 278), native of the City of Sevilla and son of Bernardo de Salas and Josepha de Morales, with María García, a native of Puebla de los Ángeles and a daughter of Nicolás García and Josepha Barriento, dated February 9, 1687, Sagrario Metropolitano, Puebla de los Ángeles:

[Margin] Sebastian de Salas y maria Garcia

En La Ciudad de los Ang^s en nuebe del febrero de mil seisientos y ochenta y siete años haviendose leido las tres amonetaciones que asi pone el S^to Consilio de trento en tres dias festivos inter missarum solemnia y no haviendo resultado impedimento canonico Yo el B^r Alonso Gil teniente de Cura desta Cathedral Casse a Sebastian de Salas español natural de la ciudad de Sevilla de los reinos de Castilla y v^zo desta de los Ang^s de tres años a esta Parte hijo lex^mo. De Bernardo de Salas y de Josepha de Morales = con Maria Garcia española natural desta dicha Ciudad hija lex^ma. De Nicolas Garsia difunto y de Josepha de Barriento su muger siendo testigos, el B^r. Juo Perez, Presbytero y Nicolas de Rivas y lo firme Br. Alonso Gil

Transcription by José Antonio Esquibel

Source: Matrimonios, Sagrario Metropolitano, Puebla de los Ángeles, Puebla, Mexico, LDS microfilm # 0227703.

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María García, wife of Sebastián de Salas (ONMF: 278) was baptized January 18, 1666, Sagrario, Puebla de los Ángeles, Nueva España, a daughter of Nicolás García and Josefa de Barrientos.

Nicolás García, also knwn as Nicolás García Canales, and Josefa Barrientos were the parents of these other chidren baptized in the sagrario chapel of the Catedral de Puebla e los Ángeles:

• Estefania Garcia Barrientos, baptized September 1668. Padrino: Esteban Alonso.

• Felipe García Barrientos, baptized May 9, 1670. Madrina: María de Rosales.

• Ignacio, baptized August 2, 1673. Padrino: Pedro García Canales (apparently a relative).

• Juan, baptized May 30, 1679. Madrina: María de Trujillo.

• Sebastián, baptized February 15, 1682. Padrino: Joseph de los Reyes.

Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel

Sources: Sagrario Metropolitano, Puebla de Zaragosa, Puebla, México—Matrimonios, LDS microfilm #00227703; Bautismos 1663-1670, LDS microfilm #0227526; Bautismos, 1663-1670, LDS microfilm #00227526; Bautismos, 1670-1676, LDS microfilm # 00227527; and Bautismos, 1676-1684, LDS microfilm # 00227528.

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Records have come to light that detail enough evidence that Sebastián de Salas and Sebastián Canseco were two distinct individuals. Both men were in New Mexico during the same time period and often crossed paths.

Sebastián was described as having a medium build, swarthy, with large eyes, and a scar from a wound on his head. He identified himself as a son of Bernardo de Salas and gave his age as 25, indicating he was born circa 1668. His wife, María García, was described as able-bodied, white, with a small nose, rather deep-set eyes, the daughter of Nicolás, and a native of Pueblo, age 23 (b.ca. 1670).

This couple completed the nine month journey from Mexico City to New Mexico, arriving at the Villa de Santa Fe in late June 1694. When the Nueva Villa de Santa Cruz de los Españoles Mexcanos was found in April 1695, Sebastián was one of four squadron leaders and a town official.

Sebastián de Salas was charged and tried for robbery in 1697. He owned land in the area of Pojoaque that he either purchased or was granted by the governor and he sold in 1701. He also sold land of his that he owned in the area of Santa Cruz in 1703. In 1708 he was serving as s solider of the presidio at the Villa de Santa Fe and was still serving as such in 1712. In 1718, Sebastián gave his age as 45.

Sebastián de Salas may have been the father of a man named José Salas, but there is no record that confirms this relationship.

Sebastián and María García were the parents of a son named Sebastián Ygino (Higinio) who was baptized at the Villa de Alburquerue on January 18, 1707. His padrinos were Tomás García and Juana Hurtado. Through this son, Sebastián de Salas and María García have numerous descendants living today.

Researchers: John B. Colligan

Source: José Antonio Esquibel and John B. Colligan, The Spanish Recolonization of new Mexico: An Account of Families Recruited in 1693 at Mxico City, Albuquerque: Hispanic Genealogival Research Center of New MExico, 1999), 45-46

Sebastián de Salas and Sebastián Canseco

Records have come to light that detail enough evidence that Sebastián de Salas and Sebastián Canseco were two distinct individuals. Both men were in New Mexico during the same time period and often crossed paths.

The first man, Sebastián de Salas (ONMF: 278) was a native of Sevilla, Spain, born around 1668, and a soldier. He married María García on February 9, 1687 in Puebla, Mexico, and came to New Mexico with the Velasco-Farfán group in 1694. This Sebastián baptized his son Sebastián in Albuquerque in 1707, but apparently he and his family lived elsewhere, possibly Santa Fe, near the presidio. Sebastián de Salas sold land in Pojoaque in 1701, and he can be found in the musters of soldiers of the presidio of Santa Fe as late as 1713. Other documents show he was still living in 1716. This man was the progenitor of many Salas descendants in New Mexico.

Sebastián Canseco, the second man, whom fray Angélico Chávez suggested may have been the same person as Sebastián de Salas (ONMF: 278), was born about 1677 in Sombrerete, New Spain, and married a woman named María Gutiérrez sometime around 1697. Canseco and his wife came to New Mexico as settlers in 1695, listed as “Sebastián Canseco, coyote, by nation, a native of the real and mines of Sombrerete, black hair, a little younger than 20 and fat; and Maria Gutierrez, mestiza, 18, whom they say Sebastián Canseco is to marry. He received 300 pesos.” Canseco and his wife were among the first settlers of Santa Cruz in April 1695.

Sebastián Canseco was prosecuted and fined for robbery in 1697 and jailed until he paid the fine. He and his wife were listed in the livestock distribution of May 1697. He gave testimony against Governor Vargas in August 1697, sold some land in 1702 in Pojoaque, and was also a soldier who mustered in 1705 and 1707. On March 12, 1716 he requested a passport to leave New Mexico, and was granted license, bound for Chihuahua. He may have stayed in Mexico since further documents have failed to surface of his remaining in New Mexico. No known children have been found for Sebastián Canseco and María Gutiérrez.

Researcher: Henrietta Martínez Christmas

Sources: Beyond Origins of New Mexico Families website; Fray Angélico Chávez, “New Mexico Roots, Ltd.”; Spanish Archives of New Mexico I (SANM I) #927; Kessell, Hendricks, and Dodge, To the Royal Crown Restored, 247, 269, 294, 313, 247, 269, 327; New Mexico Genealogist 35:3, Pg. 80 #53, 54; Kessell, Hendricks, and Dodge, Blood on the Boulders, 494, 1148; Kessell, Hendricks, and Dodge, That Disturbances Cease, 103-105; SANM II, #64; John B. Colligan, The Juan Páez Hurtado Expedition of 1695, 34-35.