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Cristóbal Baca
(Abt 1635-1697)
Ana Moreno de Lara Trujillo
(Abt 1639-After 1693)
Juana Francisca "la vieja" Baca
(Abt 1662-Bef 1718)
Miguel de San Juan
(1692-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Ysabel Montoya

Miguel de San Juan

  • Born: 1692, Guadalupe del Paso, Nuevo Méjico. Nueva España 248
  • Marriage: Ysabel Montoya on 5 May 1710 in Bernalillo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España 191,248,324
  • Died: Río Abajo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España 191

bullet  General Notes:

Miguel did not use the surname Baca, he chose San Juan. Some of his children did not use the name he chose, but used Luna or their mother's name Montoya.

Margaret Buxton also shows clear evidence that Francisco Xavier de Sotomayor can not be the father of Miguel de San Juan and either of Juana's other daughters. She questions the possibility of a link between Juana Baca's mother, Ana Moreno de Lara and Captain Diego de Luna. Ana Moreno de Lara was listed as living in Isleta del Paso with Captain Luna's family in the 1692 Census. Juana Baca, 18 and her sister, Luisa Baca, 17, are in their father, Captain Critóbal Baca's house in Pasaxe in 1692. Miguel de San Juan was born in 1692. Captain Baca was most likely serving at the Presidio of Nuestra Senora de la Limpia Concepción del Pasaxe, Nueva Viscaya.

~ The Other Luna Family

Sources:
Bernalillo Marriages 1755-1955
Bernalillo, Baptisms, Marriages & Deaths 1700-1712 p. 7
ONMF p. 283 and 236

"Excerpt from the Town of Artrisco Land Grant, Reel 17, Case 45, Frame 758 (old UNM Series: ... appeared Doña Ysabel Montoya, widow of the standard bearer Miguel de San Juan ... Doña Ysabel Montoya stated, to wit: that she gave and did give by royal sale to said Dona Josefa Baca a suerta of land that she has which she obtained as a gift from his (her husband, Miguel de San Juan) mother, Doña Juana Baca, and her brother Antonio de Luna. ..."

The Other Luna Family, p. 15 191

bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. 252
Miguel de San Juan was born in Guadalupe del Paso, and was living in Bermalillo whe he married Isabel Montoya in 1710. In 1716 Miguel took part in the Moqui campaign of that year. Their daughter Margarita de Luna married Esteban Durán.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 383

• Education. 191
Miguel de San Juan shows up as a notary on prenuptial investigations which show that he could read and write.

• Military Service. 191
After Coronado by Alfred B Thomas, p. 91

28 Aug 1715, Settlers who went with General Don Juan Paez Hurtado on a capaign against the Apaches has Miguel de San Juan of Bernalillo listed second on the list.

30 Aug 1715 at Pueblo San Lorenzo de Picuris: Review of soldiers, Militia Men, Presidials under General Juan Paez Hurtado, Copmmanding Officer of the Expedition to the Plains. Settlers from Alburquerque:

#2 Sublieutenant Miguel de San Juan, fully armed, 4 horses, 1 mule, lacking leather jacket.

• Background Information. 191,250,438
Additional information confirms that the famous Juana Baca [ONMF: 144] was actually a daughter of Cristóbal Baca and doña Ana Moreno de Lara and not a daughter of Manual Baca and María de Salazar as previously presumed. This Juana Baca was also the progenitor of the Luna family of New Mexico. Her age was given as 18 when she was listed in her mother's household in the December 1692-January 1693 census of families at El Paso willing to return to northern New Mexico. In contrast, there is no listing for a daughter named Juana in the household of Manuel Baca and María de Salazar. This census, and that of 1697, are usefuls in identifying additional children of the Baca family.

The follwowing lineage documents the 4th degree of consanguinity between Eusebio de Luna and María de la Luz Lucero:
1st degree: Miguel de San Juan de Luna Juana Baca (the younger)
2nd degree: Joaquín de Luna Antonia Chaves
3rd degree: Bernardo de Luna Rosalía Abeytia
4th degree: Eusebio de Luna María de la Luz Lucero

Juana Baca, "the younger," was married with Francisco Durán y Cháves [ONMF: 162]. She was known as a daughter of Juana Baca "the elder" [ONMF: 144 & 162].

Miguel de San Juan de Luna finds mention in ONMF: 283 as the husband of Isabel Montoya and the father of Margarita de Luna. From the above information it is clear that Juaquín de Luna was a son of Miguel de San Juan de Luna, and thus not a son of Antonio de Luna (ONMF: 214).

A valuable work to consult regarding this branch of the Luna family is The Other Luna Family by Margaret Buxton.

Researchers: Margaret Buxton and José Antonio Esquibel

Sources: Chávez, "New Mexico Roots, Ltd.": 1279, DM 1766 (no. 21), Albuquerque; Hendricks and Colligan, New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Historicos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1760-1799, Rio Grande Historical Collections, New Mexico State University Library, 1996: 128 (AHAD-98, f. 598-601, 1766, Albuquerque); Margaret Buxton, The Other Luna Family (18pp. + appendices and charts; copy available at the Albuquerque Public Library Special Collections/Genealogy Library).

• Background Information. 1507
According to an article by Patricia Sánchez Rau in Herencia, Volume 18 #1, page 21, a possible father for Miguel de San Juan is a priest who accompanied Diego de Vargas and was in El Paso as early as 1691. This priest was named Miguel Muñiz de Luna. He was not only in the right place at the right time, the name Miguel Luna also fits since Miguel de San Juan's children used the name Luna. Father Miguel Muñiz served in New Mexico from 1691 until 1718. He was at Zia and San Felipe from 1697 until 1699, the same time when Juana Baca was having her other children.


Miguel married Ysabel Montoya, daughter of Diego de Montoya and María Josefa de Hinojos, on 5 May 1710 in Bernalillo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España 191,248.,324 (Ysabel Montoya was born in 1695 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España 248 and died in Bernalillo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

bullet  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial, 28 Apr 1710, Bernalillo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. 248
28 Apr 1710, Bernalillo. Miguel de San Juan (17-19), native of El Paso del Norte, of unknown parentage and living here, and Doña Isabel Montoya (15), daughter of Capitán Diego Montoya and Doña Josefa de Hinojos. ~ Witnesses: Jose de Quintana, notary, Ygnacio Aragón (50), Capitán Juan Gonzales Bas (40), José López (60). all of Bernalillo. Pair married 5 May 1710, with witnesses Manuel Baca and Doña Josefa Baca.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1775


bullet  Marriage Notes:

New Mexico Baptisms, Marriage and Deaths, Bernalillo, 1700-1711, Padrinos: Mauel Baca y Josefa Baca. Testigos: Juan González, José de Quintana y Josefa López. 324

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