Juan Alejo Gutiérrez

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Alejo Gutiérrez, a soldier in Bernalillo, married María Naranjo, or Hurtado, in 1699; six years previously she had been rescued from Indian captivity, a witness testififed. She was, therefore, the fourteen-year-old girl rescued with her mother, Juana Hurtado, by her uncle Martín Hurtado.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 194 (Kindle Locations 8509-8516)

• Background Information.
New Mexico native, Alejo Gutiérrez was the son of Roque Gutiérrez and María de Tapiz. He had a brother named Juan Roque and two sisters, Maria and Isabel. Alejo married María Hurtado in 1699. They had a daugher named Ynéz. Alejo acquired property in Santa and was still serving with the presidio as late as 1713. He died after 1727, most likely in Bernalillo.

John L. Kessel, That Disturbances Cease: The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1697-1700, UNM Press, 2000, p. 187, footnote 109

• Records and Notes. ²⁶⁹
From The Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Volume 1, p. 100:

306 Alejo Guitierres and Bentura de Candelaria. Alburquerque, 15 Aug 1715. Division of poerperty. Before Luíz Garcia, Alcalde, Antonio de Silva, Baltazar Romero.

307 Baltazar Romero to Alejo Gutierrez, Santa Fe, 11 Mar 1715. Conveyance of house and lands in Albuquerque. Before Diego Arias de Quiros, Alcalde. Antonio Alberez Catrillon, Joseph Maria Giltomey.

Alejo married Maria Hurtado Naranjo, daughter of Bartolomé Naranjo and Juana Hurtado ²⁵².^,269 (Maria Hurtado Naranjo was born in 1674 in Zia Pueblo, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)