Juan de Archuleta III
(abt. 1652 - abt. 1700)
Isabel Gonzalez
(abt. 1664 - 1759)
Juan de Archuleta III and Isabel González were the
parents of our ancestors, Juan Andrés de
Archuleta [abt. 1680- abt. 1733] and María
de Archuleta [abt. 1684-after 1750].
[We are descended from two of their children.] We know this from the book, Origins of New Mexico Families, by Fray
Angélico Chávez.
Juan was the son of Juan de Archuleta II and María Luján. They and most of Juan’s siblings escaped the
Pueblo Revolt of 1680 only to be killed by the Suma Indians about 1684 at
Ojito, near El Paso. Juan III and his family had fled to
Sombrerete, Zacatecas, in the interior of Mexico,
a move that saved their lives. In 1693
Juan and Isabel and their family were among the colonists who resettled
New
Mexico under Governor Diego de Vargas.
Isabel González was the daughter of Juan Gonzáles Bernal [abt. 1627-abt.
1679] and Apolonia Varela [abt. 1628-?]. She was a mestiza, having two Indian women in her New
Mexico ancestry.
The González Bernals were ordinary folks, not as prominent as some of
our New Mexico ancestors. She
also was descended from Juan Griego, a
Greek, and Sebastián González, a
Portugese.
In
1696 Juan was involved in the quashing of the second Pueblo Revolt. He is specifically credited with leaving his
home at Santa Cruz de la Cañada to rescue the priest at San
Juan de los Caballeros Pueblo during that unrest. [p.
246, Crusaders of the Rio Grande..., by Espinosa] Juan purchased land in the Santa
Cruz area from Manuel Ballejo on 11 November 1697. The purchase was recorded in front of Miguel
Ladrón de Guebara, alcalde; and witnessed by our two ancestors, Miguel de Quintana and Joseph de Atienza. Juan also purchased
a rancho in the Santa Cruz area on 12 February 1698, from Tomás Xirón de
Texeda. The transfer was in the presence
of Roque Madrid, alcalde and
witnesses Joseph Antonio de Giltomey, and Miguel Ladrón de Guebara. [p. 98, The Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Vol. 1, Archive #293]
Besides these purchases, Juan was granted half a fanega of agricultural
land in Santa Fe by Governor Pedro Rodríguez Cubero on 27 February 1699 and
eight fanegas of wheat land near the junction of the Rio Grande and Chama
rivers adjoining San Juan Pueblo on 12 June 1699. [Same source, pp. 332,
337-338].
Juan
died soon after purchasing more land at Santa Cruz
from Pedro de la Cruz. In her own right, Isabel on 4 December 1703 purchased a rancho that had formerly
belonged to Alonzo del Rio. It was recorded in Santa
Fe. [Archive #293, p.97, The Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Vol. I, by Ralph Twitchell] In 1713 Isabel still owned the land
at San Juan. She lived about
ninety-five years.
CHILDREN OF JUAN DE ARCHULETA III AND ISABEL GONZÁLES
[1] Juan
Andrés de Archuleta, our ancestor, was born about 1680 in Sombrerete,
Zacatecas,
Mexico, to where the
family had fled during the 1680
Pueblo Revolt. About 1697 he married Josefa
Martín Serrano. He died about
1733. See their biographies elsewhere in
this work.
[2] María
de Archuleta, our ancestor, was born about 1684 at Guadalupe del Paso
[present-day El Paso]. On 18
February 1703 in Santa Cruz,
she married Miguel Martín Serrano [not to be confused with the man by that name
who married Leonor Domínguez. We have
two ancestors with the same name.] María was living in Santa
Cruz at the time of the 1750 Spanish Census. Her biography is elsewhere in this work.
[3] Diego
de Archuleta was born about 1686 at Guadalupe del Paso. He was married 8 May 1714 to Josefa
Gonzáles in Santa Cruz. On May 12, 1719, proceedings were
brought against Diego for ill-treatment of the nephew and wife of Cristóbal
Tafoya. He died 20 January 1731
at Santa Cruz. [p.187, Vol.2 The Spanish Archives of New Mexico,
Archive #298.]
[4] María Antonia de Archuleta was born
about 1688 in Guadalupe del Paso [El Paso]. She was living in Santa
Cruz in 1750 with four in her household. Nothing known of her marriage.
[5] Juana
de Archuleta was born about 1692. No other information.
[6] Luis
de Archuleta was born about 1696, probably in Santa
Cruz, New Mexico. He married María Martín Serrano at Santa
Cruz on 22
October 1718. They were
living in Santa Cruz at the time of
the 1750 Spanish Census with five children and two female servants/slaves.
Submitted by Donald Rivara, June 23, 2009.
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