Juan Domingo de Torres

  Noted events in his life were:

• Dates & Events, 1740. ³¹
Juan Domingo Torres was among the first settlers of Belen, New Mexico. Land Grant 1740 One of the 32 Belen Land Grantees.

• Census: Spanish Colonial, in 1750, in Belén, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Belén - Related Families

Household #7
Pablo Salazar (brother to Ángela in Household #8, child of Antonio and María in Household #13) with wife Manuela Tafoya; Children: Antonia, Bautista; Juan Antonio; Toribio-infant; sister-in-law: Maria Tafoya

Household #8
Juachín de Luna; wife, Ángela Zalazar (child of Antonio and María in Household #13); Children: Miguel, Bernardo, María (infant); brother: Phelipe de Luna.

Household #9
Diego Torres : wife, Raphaela Baca; children: Cayetano, Juan Domingo, Martin, Nicolas, Bartholomé, Manuel, Catharina Romana, María, Josepha de la Luz, Lugarda - de pecho (infant)

Household #10
Cristóbal Torres (son of Diego in Household #9); wife Juana Beavides; children: Ana María. Alexo

Household #11
Petrona García (Jurado), widow (of Juan Antonio Baca & mother of Rafael Baca)

Household #12
Juan Baca (son of Petrona in Household #11); his wife, Francisca de (Jesús Sandoval Martínez); servants Juliana & Phelipe Neri

Household #13
Antonio Zalazar; wife María Torres (sister of Diego de Torres in Houshold 9); son Nicolás; granddaughter: Rita; servants María with son, Santiago; Juana, José, Dorothea. Manuel, Vicente, Juana Antonio; orphans: Rosa, Febronia, Juan Antonio

Spanish and Mexican Census of New Mexico, 1750-1830, p. 95-96

• Census: Spanish, in 1790, in Belén, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ³³
Second Plaza of Belén
Juan Domingo Torres, 44, rancher; m. Rita Garcia, 39; 4 sons, 21, 15, 8, 6; 1 daughter, 10

New Mexico Spanish and Mexican Colonial Censuses, p. 42

Juan next married María Marta Sedillo on 18 Apr 1756 in San Felipe de Neri, Alburquerque, New México Territory.⁴¹² (María Marta Sedillo was born about 1740 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Marriage Notes:

Witnesses to Marriage: Tadeo Torres and Micaela Varela.
~San Felipe de Neri Marriages, p. 14
~New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. XXI, No. 4, p. 88 ⁴¹²

Juan next married Rita García y Romero, daughter of Nicolás Montaño García and María Quiteria Romero, on 14 Jan 1766 in San Augustín de la Isleta, Isleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España.³⁴ (Rita García y Romero was born in 1751 in Tomé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ³ and died before 1800 in, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴³.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage. ³⁴
14 Jan 1766 - Juan Torres, son of Captain Diego Torres and Maria Salasar, both deceased, married Rita Romero (Rosa in margin), daughter of Nicolas Montaño, deceased, & Quiteria of Belén.

~~New Mexico Marriages and Baptisms San Augustin de la Isleta Church, p. 15
Also found in: Herencia July, 2002 p.11