Juan Manuel Salazar was born about 1746[1] to Juan Antonio Salazar and María Barbara de San Juan. He was first married to María Antonia Garcia de Noriega in 1768, Santa Clara Pueblo,[2] and they had one daughter, Ana Salazar, born in 1769 when they were living in Chama. María Antonia died sometime before he married his second wife, Rosa de los Reyes Martín, in 1774.[3] They lived in Abiquiú Pueblo and had 12 children:
In 1794 a lawsuit was lodged against Juan Manuel and his brothers by some of his sisters and their husbands (mainly their husbands) with a complaint regarding the distribution of their mother's estate after her death. The brothers-in-law had many accusations and complaints but apparently failed to back them up with evidence or witness statements for support. Eventually the judge found for the brothers.[4]
Rosa de los Reyes died in 1800 and Juan Manuel married for the third time to Antonia Josefa Quintana later that same year.[5] They had three children:
Francisco Antonio, born in 1801
José Gabriel, born about 1804
María Carmen, born about 1805, died in 1806
Sometime after Francisco Antonio was born, Juan Manuel and many, if not most, of his children moved to Taos. He was still living when his daughter María Isabela was married in 1823.[6]
Research Notes
There is a lot of confusion over the name Juan Manuel Salazar because there were at least 3, possibly 4, men about the same age living in Santa Clara at this time. Two of them, including this profile, were first cousins. There isn't enough information on the marriage record to determine which cousin was the husband of María Antonia Garcia de Noriega but there is one tiny clue. The witnesses to the marriage were Cristóbal Salazar and Teresa Salazar. Both men share an uncle named Cristóbal but only this profile has a sister named Teresa and she is the only one I have found in the Santa Clara records.
Sources
↑ Olmsted, Virginia Langham. Spanish and Mexican Censuses of New Mexico, 1750-1830. (Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico Genealogical Society, 1981), 7; 1790 Abiquiú Pueblo Census, Plaza de Santa Rosa Capia, household 1, Ensign Juan Manuel Salazar, age 44; wife, Relles Martin, age 30; 3 sons: 11, 4, 3; 2 daughters: 3, 2.
↑ "New Mexico Marriages, 1751-1918", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDPW-MZB : 20 January 2020), Juan Manuel Salazar and María Antonia García de Noriega, 13 Feb 1768, Santa Clara, New Mexico; FHL microfilm 16,795, image 340.
↑ Arellanes, M. Eloise, Extracted, New Mexico Marriages, Church of Santo Thomas de Abiquíu, 1756-1826 (Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico Genealogical Society, 1997), 7; 20 Mar 1774, Miguel Salazar married Rosa Martín.
↑ Rau, Patricia Sanchez, “The Estate of Barbara de San Juan Luna.” Herencia, Vol. 28 (April 2020): 21-41, specifically 27.
↑ "New Mexico Marriages, 1751-1918", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDP7-L6J : 20 January 2020), Juan Manuel Salazar and Antonia Juana Quintana, married 19 Nov 1800, Santa Cruz Pueblo, New Mexico; FHL microfilm #16,972, image 183.
↑ "New Mexico Marriages, 1751-1918", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDPW-BDB : 20 January 2020), Francisco Estevan Gomes and Maria Isabel Salazar, married 24 May 1823, Abiquiu, New Mexico; FHL microfilm #16,621, image 603.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Juan Manuel by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Juan Manuel: