The Spanish Recolonization of
by José Antonio Esquibel and John B. Colligan
(Published by the Hispanic Genealogical
Research Center of New Mexico, 1998)
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The two
volumes of this work provide the first in-depth historical and genealogical
account of the families recruited as colonists for New Mexico at Mexico City in
1693. 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 after its
restoration to the Spanish crown (1692-93) and left numerous descendants.
Volume 1
addresses the history of the Velasco-Farfán colonizing expedition, providing
background information about the events leading up to the recruitment of
volunteer colonists to help resettle New Mexico, the formation of the
colonizing expedition, 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 of this volume gives 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.
Content of
Volume 1 (approx. 150pp):
The Velasco-Farfán Colonists: The Expedition to Assist in
resettling New Mexico, 1693-1694
1. Request for Colonists
2. The Tumult of Mexico
City in 1692
3. Leaders of the
Expedition
4. Organizing the
Expedition
5. About the Muster Rolls
6. The Velaso-Farfán
Muster Rolls Analyzed Alphabetically by Family Group
7. The Frenchmen: Jean L’Archiveque,
Jacques Grollet and Pierre Munier
Volume 2
provides a comprehensive and in-depth historical and genealogical account of
the families recruited at Mexico City. This volume contains a wealth of new
genealogical information on more than fifty families, much of it never before
published. The ancestry of many families has been extended from one to five
generations and pertinent records of marriage and baptisms are transcribed.
Also, numerous lines of descent from these families are traced into the early
1800s to better assist people in making their genealogical connections.
Contents
of Volume 2 (approx. 600pp)
Mexico City and Puebla Roots
1. Mexico City and Puebla
de los Ángeles Church Records
2. Historical and
Genealogical Account of the Families Recruited at Mexico City
(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) endnotes.)
Families dealt with 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, Ortoz, Porras, Quintana, Ramírez de Espinosa,
Rincón de Guemes, Rodríguez, Rosa, Ruiz Cordero, Sandoval Martínez, Sena,
Sayago-Mora-Arroya, Silva, Valdés, Vallejo González, and Vega y Coca.
A complete
bibliography of sources, including primary church records, appears at the end
of Volume 2.
