Diego Vasquez Borrego

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Diego Vásquez Borrego was in New Mexico as early as 1733. The following year he bought some land south of Isleta Pueblo. He had a wife in New Spain, and also a son, Manuel Borrego; this son married in Mexico City, where he had six children, and later moved up to Chihuahua. During his first New Mexico sojourn, around 1733 and some years following, old Diego first sired two natural sons, Francisco and Diego, both of whom lived in Bernalillo and herded their father's flocks from the year 1745 (when he came to New Mexico "a second time") until his death in 1753. Also during his first stay in New Mexico, Diego had married a New Mexican woman, Rosa de Tafoya Altamirano, who bore him two boys, one of whom died. The sole surviving legitimate son was Juan Diego Borrego. Old Diego died in Santa Fe on 10 May 1753.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations , p. 149

• Web Reference: Dates and Events.
Don Diego Vásquez Borrego: Adventuer and Prominent Rancher of Belen, 1733-1753

Diego Vásquez Borrego, along with doña Antonia Baca were padrinos for a child of Pedro Romero and Gregoria Baca on 27 Dec 1733.

In Jan 1734, Diego had land south of Ysleta Pueblo given to him by Diego Padilla. He also purchased land from the heirs of Joaquín Sedillo.

Diego was among the early settlers of Belén

• Census: Spanish Colonial, in 1750, in Belén, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Household #2
Don Diego Vásques Borrego, widower; sons: Francisco & Diego; servant: Antonia.

Spanish and Mexican Censuses, 1750-1830, p. 95

Diego married María Rosa Tafoya Altamirano, daughter of Antonio Tafoya Altamirano and María Lucía de Villavicencio y Godines, before 1723 in Valle de Toluca, Nueva España.²⁵² (María Rosa Tafoya Altamirano was born in Nueva España and died before 1737 in Nueva España.)

Diego next married.

Diego had a relationship with Catalina Gutiérrez.