There are two known wills of Juan Montes Vigil III, native of Mexico City, the son of Juan Montes Vigil II and Catalina de Herrera Cantillana. He made the first one on 1 October 1682 in Zacatecas. In it, he named his parents, both natives of Spain (Castile), his sister María de Herrera Cantillana, and his “natural” son (born out of wedlock), Francisco Montes Vigil. He also named Carlos Vigil, a two-year-old orphan child who he and his sister cared for and raised in their hous

In our article in the June 2024 edition  of the New Mexico Genealogist, Karen Bowman, Damien Aragon and I pieced together the genealogy...

Leonor Díaz de Benavides was the mother of Alonso de Benavides, conquistador of Mexico City, and Cristóbal de Benavente, fiscal of the royal audiencia of Mexico

Captain Don Juan Joseph Moreno, a native of Seville, Spain arrived in New Mexico by way of El Paso del Norte sometime in the early...

Diego Vásquez Borrego, a vecino  of Rio Abajo, made his will in Santa Fe, at the home of Vicente Martín, on the 5th of May 1753. It is a...

María Francisca de la Trinidad Gutiérrez (c. 26 May 1771, Sandia Pueblo), wife of José Antonio García de Noriega, who was one of the...

Francisca Varela Jaramillo (b. about 1692), wife of José Antonio Lucero de Godoy, made her last will and testament in the Cañada de...