Historical Note on Antonio Montoya family
<p>&quot; Antonio Montoya and his wife , Maria Hurtado , were witnesses for the wedding of Andres Hurtado (her brother ) and Antonia Dominguez at Guadalupe del Paso in 1689 . They returned home with Vargas ( Don Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponce de Leon , the great Reconquistador of Nuevo Mexico ) four years later with a large increase over the three children of 1680 . In 1707 , by then a Captain , Antonio gave his age as sixty , and sixty six in 1715 . In 1716 , he took part in the Moqui campaign with the Santa Fe Malitia . A 1704 suit shows that his father had owned land in Santa Fe before the  Pueblo Rebellion . Antonio died before 1725 , the year his widow made her last will . He had been Mayordomo , in Vargas' name , of the Confraternity of La Conquistadora in 1696.</p><p>In her last testament , Maria Hurtado declared that she and Antonio had been married for forty - six years , and then named their children : Juan Antonio , Andres , Angela , Juana , Antonia , Nicolasa , Antonio , Manuela , Tomasa , and Maria . She also mentioned a grandson , Miguel Ortiz . She died on March 22 , 1726 , and was buried in the Conquistadora Chapel of Santa Fe .</p><p>Of these children , Andres married Antonia Lucero , and then Maria Sisneros ; Antonio is very likely the man of this name  whose young wife , Catalina Ribera , died early in June , 1727 . Of the girls , Juana married Francisco Palomino Rendon in 1693 , and then Juan Manuel Chirinos in 1710 ; and Maria became the wife of Miguel de la Vega y Coca in 1699 .</p><p>Andres Montoya , son of Antonio Montoya and Maria Hurtado , lived in Santa Fe until his death , where he acquired considerable property. He also was Alcalde Mayor of the three north Queres Pueblos in 1731-32 . He appears to be the man who furnished the vigas and other lumber for the Santa Fe parish church in 1714 and the church of San Miguel in 1710 . </p><p>Andres made his last will in 1740. After giving the names of his parents , he declared that he had ten children by his first wife , Antonia Lucero de Godoy , and none by the second , Maria Sisneros .</p><p>These children were : Josefa , wife of Jose Santisteban ; Manuela , late wife of Joaquin Sanchez ; Andres , married to Ana Baca ; Isidro , husband of Manuela Silva ; Jose , married to Juana Quintana ; Francisco , Husband of Juana Baca ; Antonio , husband of Ynez Baca ; Christobal (dead) ; Nicolas and Diego , both single . Of the children just mentioned , Josefa had married Manuel Silva in 1717 , and then Sansisteban in 1720 ; Francisco married Juana Baca , on June 14 1733 .</p><p>Captain Andres Montoya died on August 31st 1740 ; his first wife had died on Dec 6, 1736 .</p><p>Diego Montoya went to live in the Indian - occupied city of Santa Fe as soon as the colonists arrived there in 1693 . But , warned beforehand of the impending rebellion , December 27 , he left to join the others in the camp outside the walls . Two or three years later he moved down to Bernalillo with other old settlers who preferred the Rio Abajo . </p><p>Diego and his wife , Josefa de Hinojos , had at least five children . Salvador , who married Manuella Garcia de la Riva , Juana , first wife of Pedro Duran y Chaves , Antonio , who married Bernarda Baca ; Isabel , wife of Miguel De San Juan ; and another girl , name not known , who was the second wife of Baltasar Romero .</p><p>Salvador Montoya married Manuela Garcia de la Riva in Bernalillo on April 25 , 1700 , where he had gone to live with his parents after the Reconquest , and in 1715 he was a Regent of the &quot;Kingdom&quot; . He was a member of the Confraternity of La Conquistadora .</p><p>He made his last will in 1727 , while residing in Santa Fe as &quot; Regidor&quot;. After naming his parents and his wife , he declared the following three sons and two daughters as his children : Jose Francisco , Miguel , Jose Manuel , Francisca , and Josefa . </p><p>Of the sons, Jose (Francisco) was born on July 30, 1701, and was living in Valle de San Buenaventura in Nueva Vizcaya as late as 1733.  Miguel married Rosa Baca in 1729, and then Lucia de Chavez in 1734.  One of the girls , Josefa , became the wife of Jose Antonio Benzvides .</p><p>Antonio Montoya , brother of Salvador, married Bernarda Baca , May 20, 1707.  In 1731 he was the Captain in charge of the distribution of alms from church tithes , and of the sheep of the church used for relief of the needy .  The following year he was Alcalde of Santa Fe , on January 22 , 1736 , at the age of forty.  Antonio also belonged to the Conquistadora Confraternity.  </p><p>The known children by Bernarda Baca were : Maria Francisco , born September 15, 1708 ; Juan Manuel , May 11 , 1710 ; Miguel ,  October 8, 1711; and Bernardo Baltasar, mentioned with his two brothers as grantees of the Old Pueblo of Abiquiu in 1741.</p><p>Antonio married again, this time a widow, Jacinta Pelaez, in 1736 .  He then bought property in Santa Fe , but by 1745 he was living at Santa Rosa de Lima , Abiquiu , as a stockman and farmer , being then fifty-five years of age .  There he died on August 8 , 1745 .  </p><p>Filipe Montoya and his wife Maria de Paredes also came to Bernalillo after the Reconquest battles were over.  There two known children were married : Maria became the wife of Cristobal Martin of Santa Cruz in 1699 , and Clemente married Josefa de Herrera (Lujan) at Santa Cruz , September 19, 1701.  Their parents were dead in this latter year.  </p><p>Clemente Montoya made his last will in 1753 , in which he lists his seventeen children by two wives. &quot;</p><p>Source of above  genealogical material : &quot; Origin of New Mexico Families , A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period &quot;,</p><p>Fray Angelico Chavez , Revised Edition , 1992</p><p>Pages 235- 238</p>

Diego de Montoya

1657 - 1717

When Diego de Montoya was born in 1657 in Bernalillo, New Mexico, his father, Diego, was 68 and his mother, Maria, was 34. He married Maria Josefa de Hinojos in 1680. They had seven children in 22 years. He died in 1717 at the age of 60.

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