Gregorio Anselmo Quintana
(1748 - after 1822)
Maria Concepcion Valdes
(1759 - after 1822)
Gregorio Anselmo Quintana and María
Concepción Valdés were the parents of Francisco Estevan Quintana
[1801-1880]. We know this from
Estevan’s baptismal record at Santo
Tomás
Apostole Church
in Abiquiu, Rio Arriba County, New
Mexico.
Concepción
was born in 1759 in Abiquiú, Rio Arriba County,
New Mexico and was baptized there at the
Santo
Tomás Apostole
Church
on 20 December 1759. Her parents were Ignacio Luis Valdés and Juana
Martín [Martín Serrano].
Gregorio
was a son of Nicolás Quintana [1712-after
1790] and María Antonia Herrera. We know this from his baptismal record. He
was born in Santa Cruz,
Rio
Arriba County, New Mexico, and
was baptized in the church there on 14
May 1748. His godparents were Juan Bustos and Teresa Sanchez.
Somehow
Gregorio was in Abiquiú, in the Chama
River Valley,
and met María Concepción Valdés. Perhaps he was there to visit the
children of his uncle, Francisco Quintana, who lived there. The couple was
married on 27 March 1781 in
the Santo Tomás Apostól Catholic Church in Abiquiú. At the time of their marriage Gregorio was
not yet a resident of the Chama
Valley. In the marriage record it stated that he was
“de otra villa.” They seem to have lived
in the Chama after the marriage, however
Gregorio
seems to have been close to two others of his cousins who lived in the
Chama: Gabriel and Maria Manuela Quintana, both children of his uncle, José Quintana, who had been killed by
Indians in 1748, and of Lujarda Herrera.
On 13 March 1783, María de los Dolores
Naranjo was baptized in Abiquiú with
Anselmo Quintana and María Concepción Valdés as godparents. Later that year, on 6 September, Concepcíon
was the godmother and Juan Antonio Velasquez the godfather at the baptism of
Rafael, a seven-year-old Moqui Indian boy of unknown parentage. Rafael was a slave/servant probably belonging
to the Quintanas.
The
Quintanas were again godparents on 28
October 1784 for Juan Domingo Trujillo, age two days, son of Juan
Domingo Trujillo, Sr. and María Ygnacia Martín.
Also
baptized at Santo Tomás
Apostole Church
on 17 December 1784 was María de la Luz Quintana, daughter of
Gregorio Anselmo and Concepción.
Another
daughter, María Feliciana Quintana,
was born about 1786. We do not have a
baptismal record for her, however.
Concepción was the godmother at the baptism of María de la Trinidad
Marquez with Pablo Velasquez as the godfather on 7 June 1787. The
parents of Trinidad were José Santos Marquez and María
Mónica Tafoya.
A son, Nicolás
Quintana, named for his grandfather,
was baptized 25 January 1788
in Abiquiú. The godparents were Juan Batista Valdés and María de las Nieves Martín.
These may have been Concepción’s parents; if not, a brother and
sister-in-law.
On 16 March 1789, Concepción was the
godmother at the baptism of José Miguel Chacón, son of José Antonio Chacón and
María Juana Guadalupe Archuleta. The
godfather was Pedro Ygnacio Gallegos.
Later
that same year the Quintanas had a daughter, named for her mother, María Concepción Quintana, who was
baptized on 12 December 1789,
at Abiquiú with Manuel Martín and María
Manuela Quintana as godparents.
The
Spanish Census of 1790 shows the family living in the Plaza de San Iñacio in
Abiquiú. Gregorio Quintana, Spanish, was erroneously listed as age 30; and Concepción Baldés was listed as Spanish
and as age 28. They had one daughter age
3 and one son aged 1. It appears as if
their daughter Luz had died by this time.
[The b and v in Spanish are interchanged by most persons in those days.
The sounds are almost identical in Spanish.]
The
records are bare for the next five years.
Then, on 3 January 1795,
María Josefa Quintana, daughter of
Gregorio and Concepción, was baptized at Santo
Tomás Apostole
Church
in Abiquiú.
On 1 April 1796, Teodora, a two year old
Ute Indian girl, a servant/slave of
Gregorio and Concepción, was baptized at Abiquiú. Her godparents were Francisco Trujillo and
Josefa Jirón.
On 11 April 1799, Gregorio and
Concepción were godparents for Juan Julián Martín, the son of José Ignacio
Martín and María Paula Salazar.
Interestingly,
on 13 October 1799, Cayetano Hipolito de Jesus Serrano,
then about twelve years old, who would become the father of Miguel Serrano
[c.1816-1899], was the godfather at the baptism of María Dolores, an Indian servant/slave
belonging to Gabriel Quintana, a
first cousin of Gregorio Anselmo
Quintana. As early as 1799 we have a
documented connection between the Quintana and Serrano families. Miguel
Serrano would marry Gregorio and Concepción’s granddaughter, Prudencia Quintana, in California
in 1847. Another daughter, María Inés Quintana, was baptized at
Abiquiú on 23 February 1800. Godparents were Severino Martín and María
Paula Salazar.
The
many persons surnamed Martín who
served as godparents on these pages were probably members of the family that
went by two surnames: Martín Serrano and were relatives of
Cayetano Hipolito Serrano and his son Miguel Serrano. Many of this family chose to use only one of
their two surnames, and some even converted to Martinez.
José
Bernardino Martín was baptized at Abiquiú on 22 June 1800 with the Quintanas as his godparents. His parents were Pedro Martín and María
Manuela Cisneros.
On
the 10 August 1800, José
Antonio Quintana, a five-year-old Comanche boy, who was a servant/slave of the
Quintanas was baptized at the church in Abiquiú. His godparents were Rafael Trujillo and María
Santa Ana. This Genízaro boy later
married Ana María Coris and named one of his sons José Gregorio in 1824 and
another Francisco Estevan Quintanain 1836.
Because no children are shown for José Antonio between 1824 to 1835 in
Abiquiú, it is believed that José Antonio may
have been with Francisco Estevan Quintana [1801-1880] in the
Taos
Valley or just living elsewhere.
On 12 February 1801, the Quintanas were
godparents for Juan de Jesús Maita, son of Pablo Maita and Ana María
Martín. The baptism took place at
Abiquiú.
What
appears to have been the Quintanas’ final child was a son, Francisco Estevan Quintana, born 1 August 1801 in the Chama
Valley and baptized at
Santo
Tomas Apostole
Church
in Abiquiú. Godparents were Manuel Martín and Ana María Larrañaga. The boy was boy from the Ute Indians. The boy was baptized on 22 September, 1822, at Abiquiu. At that time Gregorio was seventy-six and
Concepcion about sixty. Concepción was
the godmother and her son, Francisco Estevan Quintana, was the godfather. They, no doubt, died in the
Chama
Valley.
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Children of Gregorio Anselmo
Quintana and
María
Concepción Valdés
Maria de la Luz Quintana was baptized 17 December 1784, in Santo
Tomás Apostole Church in Abiquiú, Río Arriba County, New Mexico. She apparently died before 1790
because she does not appear in the Spanish Census of that year in her parents’
family.
María Feliciana Quintana was born about 1787 in the
Chama
Valley. On 2
December 1813, she married Juan Bautista Trujillo at the
Santo
Tomás Apostole
Church
at Abiquiú, Rio Arriba County, New
Mexico. We
have a few records of her family abstracted from Abiquiú Baptisms 1754-1870, compiled by Thomas Martinez. On 1
April 1825, her son José Ygnacio Trujillo, 4, was baptized and buried. The family resided at that time
on the Plaza de San Francisco in
Abiquiú. On 14 February 1826, a daughter, María Candelaria
Trujillo, 13 days old, was baptized and buried at Abiquiú. On 16
June 1833, another daughter, Juana Gertrudis Trujillo, age 1 day,
was baptized. Her godparents were José
María Trujillo and María Josefa Martín.
Nicolás Quintana, named for his paternal grandfather, Nicolás
Quintana [1712-after 1790], was baptized on 25 January 1788.
His godparents were Juan Batista Valdés and María de las Nieves
Martín. It is believed that Nicolás did
not live to adulthood. There are no
children baptized with him as their father and no other records of him.
María Concepción Quintana was named for her mother. She was baptized at the
Santo
Tomás Apostole
Church
in Abiquiú on 12 December 1789. Her godparents were Manuel Martín and María
Manuela Quintana, Gregorio’s cousin.
Concepción may have died young because no marriage was found for her in
Abiquiú.
María Josefa Quintana was baptized 3 January 1795, which means that she may have been born in
December of 1794. Her godparents were Gabriel Quintana, her father’s cousin,
and María Antonia Vigil [Gabriel’s wife whom he married 23 Sept. 1762 in Santa Cruz]. Josefa married Merced Romo. On 8 June 1823,
she was the godmother and Juan de Diós Trujillo
the godfather of José Eugenio Espinosa, the son of Francisco Espinosa and María
Guadalupe Archuleta. On an unrecorded date, María Rosalia Romero, one day old, was baptized at
Santo
Tomás Apostole
Church
in Abiquiú. Her godparents were Gabriel
Romero and Rosalia Trujillo.
María Inés Quintana was baptized 23 February 1800, at the Santo
Tomás Apostole
Church
in Abiquiú. Her Her godparents were
Severino Martín and María Paula Salazar. Nothing else is known of her. No marriage record was found for her in
Abiquiú, which may indicate an early death.
Francisco Estevan Quintana, born 1 August 1801, the youngest child,
was baptized in the Santo
Tomás
Apostole Church
with Manuel Martín and Ana María Larrañaga as godparents. Estevan later moved his family to California
in 1843 and died in San Luis Obispo
in 1880.
Submitted by Donald Rivara, June 23, 2009.
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