Spanish Recolonization of New Mexico

The Spanish Recolonization of New Mexico: An Account of the Families Recruited at Mexico City in 1693

by José Antonio Esquibel and John B. Colligan

Published by the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico, 1999 (447 pages)

This book is out of print. It can be requested via Inter-library loan at any local library.

SRNM provides the an in-depth historical and genealogical account of the families recruited at Mexico City in 1693 as frontier settlers to help restore New Mexico as a province of the Spanish crown. These families represent the largest group of people to traverse the entire length of El Camino Real from Mexico City to Santa Fe. As settlers they contributed significantly to the development of New Mexico and left numerous descendants.

Part I of SRNM addresses the history of the colonizing expedition, providing background information about the events leading up to the recruitment of volunteer settlers, the formation of the expedition in Mexico City, and the events of the nine-month journey on El Camino Real. All known copies of muster rolls naming the colonists are transcribed and were utilized to provide an alphabetical analysis of the family groups that were recruited. The last section Part I offers the most detailed account to date of the history of the three Frenchmen, survivors of the ill-fated La Salle expedition, who joined the colonizing expedition after their release from prison in Spain.

Part II of SRNM provides a comprehensive and in-depth historical and genealogical account of the families recruited at Mexico City, containing a wealth of genealogical information with specific source citations on more than fifty families, much of it never before published before 1999. Some of the information from this part of SRNM is frequently found on the internet today without sources cited. The ancestry of many families has been extended from one to five generations into the early 1600s and late 1500s and pertinent records of marriage and baptisms are transcribed. Also, numerous lines of descent from these families are traced from the late 1600s into the early 1800s to better assist people in making their genealogical connections.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: The Velasco-Farfán Colonists: The Expedition to Assist in resettling New Mexico, 1693-1694

1.      Restoration and Recolonization of New Mexico

·         Request for Colonists

·         The Tumult of Mexico City in 1692

·         Leaders of the Expedition 

2.      Organizing the Expedition 

3.      The Velasco-Farfán Muster Rolls Analyzed Alphabetically 

4.      The Frenchmen: Jean L’Archiveque, Jacques Grollet and Pierre Munier 

5.      Notes for Chapters 1-4

Part II: Mexico City and Puebla Roots

1.      Mexico City and Puebla de los Ángeles Church Records

·         Catedral de México

·         Santa Catalina Martir

·         Santa Vera Cruz

·         Puebal de los Ángeles

2.      Historical and Genealogical Account of the Families Recruited at Mexico City 

Note: This part of the book contains sections of varying length regarding the families listed below. Each section is divided into three parts; i) historical narrative and transcribed records, ii) detailed genealogy, and iii) end notes. 

Families dealt within this section include:

Aguila, Aguilera, Aguilera y Ysasi, Ansures, Aragón, Atienza (Atencio) de Alcalá y Escobar, Betanzos, Bustillos/Bustos, Cárdenas, Casados, Castellanos, Cortés, Cortés del Castillo, Espíndola, Fernández de Atienza y Ladrón de Guevara, Figueroa Núñez de Cháves-López de Mirabal, Gamboa, García Jurado, García de la Riva, Godines, Góngora, Herrera y Sandoval, Jaramillo Negrete, Jirón de Tejeda-González de Aragón, Jirón de Tejeda-Leyba y Mendoza, Ladrón de Guevara, Ladrón de Guevara-Góngora, Losada, Márquez de Ayala, Martínez de Cervantes (Chirinos), Martínez de Gamboa, Mascareñas, Medina Ortiz, Molina, Moreno de Trujillo, Moya, Ortiz, Porras, Quintana, Ramírez de Espinosa, Rincón de Guemes, Rodríguez, Rosa, Ruiz Cordero, Sandoval Martínez, Sena, Sayago-Mora-Arroyo, Silva, Valdés, Vallejo González, and Vega y Coca.

Appendix: Collated Transcriptions of the Six Velasco-Farfán Muster Rolls

Bibliography

Index of Surnames