Tomás Antonio de Sena

  Noted events in his life were:

• Dates & Events. ²⁵²
Tomás Antonio de Sena's profession was that of Blacksmith and Armorer, but he also held the post of Alcalde Mayor of Galisteo and continued in his father's footsteps as a piller of the church.

He and María Luisa García had a family of fourteen, according to his last will. These were named as: María Ynez, María Yrene, Francisco de Paula, Bernardo, María Rosa, María Ynez de la Encarnación (all deceased by the time the will was made), Graciana Prudencia, Vicente, Pablo Antonio, José María, Matías David, Francisco and Gertrudis (these seven were alive and married at the time of the will).

María Luisa García de Noriega died on 3rd Day of July 1767 & Tomas de Sena, widower, died on the 11th day of February 1781.

~Origins Of New Mexico Families, p. 287

Tomas de Sena was one of the three grantees of the Cayamungue Land Grant.

In 1763,He and two others registered a mine "Nuestra Senora De Los Dolores," south of a hill called "Turquoise,"in Bernalillo. According to his will, they had at least 14 children.

• Dates & Events. ^287,393
Tomás Antonio de Sena was Alcalde of Galisteo and Pecos Pueblos in 1749-56 and again in 1762-69 [Kessel, 1979, p. 505]. Only individuals with political power felt safe in applying for mine grants. The best New Mexico example of this is the 1742 confiscation, by a new Governor, of all the mines in the Peñasco mining district as their owners were common miners without political power in the new administration [Milford, 1991, Appendix E].

During his second alcaldeship Sena requestors for the Nuestra Señora de los Dolores Mine Grant which is probably what we call the Castilian mine on Turquoise Hill. This 1763 mine grant and a transfer of partial ownership of it in 1764 are the only mining grants that have survived for the Cerrillos Mining District after the 1709 Santa Rosa Mine Grant until the U.S. Period in the New Mexico Archives.

He and his son, Bernardo, were granted land by Governor Juan Domingo Bustamante, 22 Feb 1721, which was known as the Cuyamungue, or Bernardo de Sena Land Grant. This grant is in what is now Rio Arriba County.

• Census: Spanish, 1750, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Tomas de Zena; María Luisa; María Rossa; Rossa; Vincente; Pablo; Joseph; Joachín; Manuela; 3 Children.

Spanish and Mexican Census, p. 5

Tomás married María Luisa García de Noriega, daughter of Tomás García de Noriega and Juana Hurtado de Mendoza, in 1723 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁹ (María Luisa García de Noriega was born before 12 Aug 1708 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España, baptized on 12 Aug 1708 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴⁰ and died on 3 Jul 1767 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
22 April 1723, Santa Fé. Tomás Antonio de Sena, son of Bernardino de Sena and Tomasa Gonsáles, and María Luisa García, daughter of Tomás García of Alburquerque and Juana Hurtado, deceased. Witnesses: Jose Manuel Giltomey, notary; Pedro Mondes de Oca (50), Dieglo Lucero (29), españoles ...

New Mexico Roots Ltd, p. 1807