Pedro Gomez "Períco" Durán y Chávez

  General Notes:

Also knoa as Pedro Chaves "el Mozo" meaning the younger. - Chavez, A Distinctive American Clan of New Mexico, p. 141 ³¹²

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Pedro Gómez Durán y Chaves, although he had an elder brother named "Pedro," this last child of Fernando Durán y Chaves received the full name of don Fernando's grandfather, "Pedro Gómez Durán," as his baptismal name. Later he was referred to also as "Pedro de Chaves el Menor" or by the nickname of "Períco" (little Pedro), when living with the family at Atrisco. He was still there in 1732 when he sold the lands of his inheritance to Bernabé Baca and to the widow of his brother Antonio. But three years later he was living in the Rio Arriba country.

On July 6, 1737, Pedro Gómez de Chaves married Petrona Martín. They were still living in Ojo Caliente of Rio Arriba in 1742. He is the only son of Don Fernando who settled in the country north of Santa Fe, but so far it is not known who his children were.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p.163

• Census: Spanish Colonial, in 1750, in San Clemente, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
#5 Pedro Gomes married to Petronia Martín and their children, Rosalío and Andrés.

Spanish and Mexican Census of New Mexico, 1750-1830, p. 94

Pedro married Patrona Martín Serrano, daughter of Francisco Martín Serrano and Juana García, on 6 Jul 1737 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.¹⁵⁶¹ (Patrona Martín Serrano was born in 1708 in Río Arriba, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Marriage Notes:

Santa Cruz de la Cañada, One-Hundred Years of Marraige, p. 7

Pedro Gómez de Chabes married Petrona Martín
Witnesses: Diego Martín and Teresa de Herrera ¹⁵⁶¹