In the Origins of New Mexico Families , Fray Angélico Chávez stated that Isabel Olguín was the daughter of Juan López Olguín and Catalina...

Catalina Bernal and Juana López came forward in May to denounce themselves and others for practicing witchcraft. Catalina testified...

Several women accused others or denounced themselves to the Inquisition for engaging in superstitious activities, often involving plants...

Juan Gómez de Luna, an interpreter of the Tewa language and encomendero  of the pueblo of San Lázaro, aroused the suspicions of several...

Captain Francisco de Madrid came forward voluntarily to denounce Governor Juan de Eulate to Friar Alonso de Benavides regarding his...

Pedro Durán y Chávez appeared in several other witness statements to the Inquisition regarding the conduct of Governor Don Juan de...

Simón Pérez de Bustillo was summoned to testify before the Inquisition to corroborate Friar Ortega’s statement  denouncing Governor...

Diego de Vera, native of the Canary Islands, made three statements to Friar Alonso de Benavides: one denouncing Governor Don Juan de...

Captain Hernán Martín Serrano came forward of his own volition to denounce Governor Juan de Eulate to the Inquisition on 28 January 1626....

The priest who was serving as the notary for all of the inquisition testimony, Friar Pedro de Ortega, testified against Governor Juan de...

Captain Pedro Márquez testified against Governor Juan de Eulate to the Inquisition on 28 January 1626. He recounted an incident that took...

Matías López del Castillo made two statements to the Inquisition on 27 January 1626. The first statement concerned accusations of heresy...

Captain Francisco Pérez Granillo testified before Alonso de Benavides in Santa Fe on 27 January 1626, describing an incident that took...

Juan Frescos was a Flemish miner who accompanied the wagon-train escort that was carrying the new governor, Don Felipe Sotelo Osorio, from New Spain to Santa Fe in December 1625.

The first witness to make a statement before Friar Alonso de Benavides was Friar Esteban de Perea, on 26 January 1626, just one day after...

When Friar Alonso de Benavides arrived in New Mexico in December 1625, he carried with him two very important items that had significant impacts on New Mexico history.