Tomás de Vargas Machuca (abt. 1686 - bef. 1737)

Born about 1686 in Nuevo México, Nueva España

Ancestors

Died before 3 Feb 1737 before about age 51 in Santa Fé, Nuevo México, Nueva España

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Biography

Tomás was born about 1682, probably to Juan de Vargas Machuca and Ana López Olguín. In about 1720 he married María de Benavides^[1] and they had two known sons, Antonio and José Patricio. He died in 1737.^[2]

Research Notes

1. Chávez thought that Tomás was most likely the son of Juan de Vargas Machuca and Ana López Olguín.^[1] This makes sense because there is no mention of Tomás in Revolt of the Pueblo Indians^[3] or any of Diego de Vargas' journals covering the Recolonization.^[4] Most likely he was either a child or not yet born. Juan and Ana were married in 1681,^[5] and Tomás could have been born soon after. He would still have been too young to be named in any musters during the Recolonization but old enough to marry a 39-year-old widow and have children by 1720. I am changing his parents but leaving it uncertain.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Chávez, Fray Angélico. Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period. (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, revised 1992), pp. 190 and 306.
2. ↑ Christmas, Henrietta M, Jeanette Gallegos, and Patricia S. Rau. New Mexico Burials, Santa Fe - St. Francis Parish and Military Chapel of Our Lady of Light (la Castrense), 1726-1834. (Albuquerque, N.M: New Mexico Genealogical Society, 2007), p. 19; Tomas de Bargas Machuca, buried 3 Feb 1737, widowed of María Benavides.
3. ↑ Hackett, Charles W, and Charmion C. Shelby. Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Otermíns's Reconquest, 1680-1682: Introduction and Annotations by Charles Wilson Hackett, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1970).
4. ↑ Kessell, John L. and Rick Hendricks, editors, By Force of Arms: The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, 1691-1693 (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1992). The set also includes To the Royal Crown Restored, Blood on the Boulders, That Disturbances Cease, and A Settling of Accounts.
5. ↑ Chávez, Angélico. New Mexico Roots Ltd: a demographic perspective from genealogical, historical and geographic data found in the diligencias matrimoniales or pre-nuptial investigations (1678-1869) of the Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. PDF image copy, UNM Digital Repository, http://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cswr_reference/5 : 1983, Vol. 11, p. 2077; 1681, El Paso del Norte, Juan de Vargas Machuca and Ana Lopez Olguin.

See also:

• Great New Mexico Pedigree Database: By the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico
• Nancy López's Genealogy Site