Pedro Martín Serrano y Salazar

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Pedro Martín Serrano de Salazar's wife, Juana de Argüello, returned to Santa Fé in 1693 to re-settle the ancestral La Cañada country. He was already dead, since Juana is listed as a widow on the El Paso Muster Roll of 1692-1693. Juana, seventy years old in 1718, was still living with her daughter, Josefa, the widow of Andrés Archuleta, in Santa Fé.

There know sons were: Miguel, husband of Leonor Domínguea de Mendoza; Antonio, who married Ana María Gómez, and then Magdalena Sedillo; Francisco, "El Ciego," married Casilda Contreras; and Sebastián, husband of María Luján.

Three know daughters were: María, widow of Juan Olguín, who married Tomás de Bejarano; Juana, widow of Francisco de Apodaca, who then married a different Juan Olguín in 1695, and then Felipe de Arratia; and Josefa, wife of Andrés de Archuleta.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, pp. 222-223

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁶⁵
Alférez/Capitán Pedro Martín Serrano son of Luis who was the son of the Hernán Martín Serrano who came to New Mexico with Oñate. He was born around 1635-1637, a native of New Mexico, described as "medium, thick set stature, partly gray & lame in left leg," and was dead by Sep 1691. He married Juana de Argüello, born circa 1648, New Mexico; resident of Santa Fe who died after 1718 in New Mexico.

~ Descendants of Hernán Martín Serrano in New Mexico, p. 9

Pedro married Juana Apolonia de Argüello about 1664 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.¹⁴⁶⁵ (Juana Apolonia de Argüello was born in 1648 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ¹⁴⁶⁵ and died after 1718 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ^287,1465.)