Margarita de la Merced Velásquez

Margarita married Francisco Padilla, son of Juan Manuel Padilla and Juana Anaya, in Feb 1777 in San Agustín de la Ysleta, Ysleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España.³⁴ (Francisco Padilla was born in Feb 1751 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴⁰⁰ and was baptized on 28 Feb 1751 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
28 Sep 1777, Ysleta, Francisco Padilla (25), mulato, son of Juan Manuel Padilla and Juana Anaya, and Margarita Velasquez, mulata, daughter of Joaquín Velasquez and Juliana Benavides.

Witnesses: Manuel de Arteaga, notary in Alburquerque; Pablo Padilla (incomplete).

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, vol. 8, p. 1443