Joaquín de Luna

  Noted events in his life were:

• Land Grant: San Joaquin del Nacimiento.
Joaquin de Luna, for himself and on behalf of thirty five associates, by petition addressed to Governor Pedro Fermin de Mendinueta applied for a grant covering a tract of land situated upon the headwaters of the Rio Puerco and known as San Joaquin del Nacimiento. The petition pointed out that the thirty-six petitioners had settled upon the tract three years previously and had resided upon and used the lands ever since. They assured the governor that the requested tract, which was bounded:

On the north, by a small arroyo commonly called the Arroyo de la Tortuga; on the east, by the mountain extending from Jemez to the Piedra Lumbre; on the south, by the point of a mesa through which runs an arroyo commonly called the Arroyo Hondo; and on the west, by a boundary to be fixed by the alcalde.

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Joaquín de Luna married María Torres, July 17, 1743, with Antonio Baca and wife Mónica de Chaves as witnesses. María must have died soon after, since within the next two years Joaquín began to have children by a new wife, Juana Ángela de Salazar.

These children were:
Miguel de San Juan, 10 Sept 1745
Bernardo Paulo, 9 Jul 1747
Antonio Xavier 11 May 1751
Tomás

Tomás married Margarita Antonia Sena at Bernalillo in 1773. The eldest swon, Miguel, widowed of Juana Real de Aguilar, married Maria Catalina Valdés of Jémez jurisdiction. Bernardo married Catalina García and resided at Alameda.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, pp. 214-215

• Census: Spanish, in 1750, in Belén, Nuevo 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

Joaquín married Juana Ángela de Salazar, daughter of Antonio de Salazar and María de Torres, on 16 Jun 1743 in Belén, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.³⁴ (Juana Ángela de Salazar was born in 1725 in Belén, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Marriage Notes:

~ New Mexico Marriages and Baptisms San Augustin de la Isleta, p. 5 ³⁴