Francisco Xavier (c. 1628 - after 1682) Graciana Griego ( - abt. 1680) Francisco Xavier and Graciana Griego were the parents of Francisco Xavier de San Juan according the Great New Mexico Surname Index. Francisco’s parents are unknown, but we know that Graciana was the daughter of Juan Griego II [c.1605-] and his wife, Juana de la Cruz [c.1610-].  The Griegos had been one of the military families who came with Juan de Oñate in 1598 to settle New Mexico.  This was nine years before the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. In Fray Angélico Chávez’s Origins of New Mexico Families, Revised Edition, page 113, there is an account of Francisco:   FRANCISCO XAVIER first appears [in New Mexico] in the wagon train escort that brought Governor Mendizábal to Santa Fe in 1658. In 1661 he said that he was thirty-three years old.  His wife, mentioned in 1663, was Graciana Griego, daughter of Juan Griego.  In 1680 Francisco was Secretary of Government and War and Alcalde Ordinario, holding the rank of Maese de Campo.  He escaped the [Pueblo] Indian massacre [of the Spanish settlers] with four daughters and two sons declaring that he had lost two mulatto slaves at Picuris, [killed in the massacre].  [Apparently these were mestizo minors, half-breed children of Indian slaves.]  The following year he passed muster as a widower, fifty-one or fifty-two years of age, with two sons and three daughters. [One of the girls had married in the meantime.]  He was a native of Sevilla [Seville] in Spain and was described as having a good build, very gray hair, and the scar of a wound on the left side of the forehead. In 1682 Francisco Xavier left Guadalupe del Paso [Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico] for New Spain [the interior of Mexico]. Permission to leave had been readily granted, for Otermín had promised the Indians the year before that he would never allow Xavier and two other men to return [to New Mexico] because of their extreme cruelty to the Pueblo Indians.  The Indians made this request to Vargas in 1692 [when negotiations were being made for the Spanish to return to New Mexico], but by this time the Xaviers were gone. Francisco Xavier II, known as Francisco Xavier San Juan, son of Francisco Xavier and Graciana Griego, did not return to New Mexico either, but some of his children did return.  Submitted by Donald Rivara, June 23, 2009. Copyright © Genealogy Trails All Rights Reserved with Full Rights Reserved for Original Contributor