Miguel de San Juan

  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

  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).