Juana Micaela (Salazar) Archuleta (1752 - 1839)

Born 6 Dec 1752 in Chama, Rio Arriba, Nuevo México, Nueva España

Wife of Juan Damian Archuleta — married 29 Jan 1772 in Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, New Mexico, New Spain

Descendants

Died Jun 1839 at age 86 in Taos, Taos, Nuevo México, México

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Biography

Juana Micaela Salazar was the ninth child in the large family of Francisco Miguel Salazar and Francisca Juana de Luna. She was baptized on Dec. 6, 1752 in Santa Clara, Ria Arriba, New Mexico. This is also validated by the staff at the Great New Mexico Pedigree project. On the family profile page of the GNMPD the husband is Francisco Miguel Salazar, the mother is Francisca Juana de Luna, and the GNMPD has identified 12 children in the family.

Juana Micaela married Juan Damian Archuleta on January 29, 1772, in Holy Cross Church in Santa Cruz, New Mexico. Around 1800 Damian & Juana Micaela moved their family to Taos. They settled in the village of Arroyo Hondo, which was located within the Taos Parish boundaries. The Archuleta family were parishioners of Our Lady Of Guadalupe Church in Taos for the next 2-3 generations.

Damian and Micaela had eight (8) children during their marriage. Their children were all born near pueblos, some were baptized in pueblo mission churches. There children were daughter Antonia Rita Archuleta, son Julian Archuleta, daughter, Maria Isidora Archuleta, son Marcos Archuleta, son Manuel Antonio Archuleta,, daughter, Maria Manuela- Archuleta, son Jose Antonio Archuleta, and son Jose Honorato Archuleta.

They are recorded as the parents in Church baptism records for four more children after 1800. Micaela and Damian are in truth, these childrens grandparents. The priests in their Church for some reason (??) refused to recognize their daughter Manuela as the mother of these children. The priests gave these children 'legitimate' status by naming Damian and Micaela as their legitimate parents in their baptism and marriage records.

But years later, the Taos priests did recognize Felipe Sanchez and Manuela Archuleta as the legitimate and recognized parents of these children. The records moved Damian and Micaela to their real/true role as grandparents (Manuela's parents).

Dolores, Paula, and Francisca all married as Archuleta's. But in the baptism records of their children the Church in Taos gave legitimacy and recognition to Felipe Sanchez and Manuela Archuleta as the parents of the sisters, the maternal grandparents of each sister's children. They gave the sister's in these records, when they became mothers, their true father's name; their maiden names were recorded as Dolores Sanchez, Paula Sanchez, and Francisca Sanchez. All three woman kept the last name of Sanchez afterward.

Because the priest writen baptism records of Our Lady Of Guadalupe church record that all four (after 1800) were baptized as legitimate children of Damian & Micaela Archuleta; I have chosen to mention Juan de Jesus Archuleta, Maria Dolores Archuleta 1811-1813?, Maria Paula Archuleta in 1815. and Maria Francisca in abt. 1828 in this family profile. Any persons researching this family has to recognized what is written in the baptims and marriage records. That is appropriate integrity as to these records.

But also for genealogy integrity, it must be recognized that the Church did LATER recognized that the real parents of these children were Felipe Sanchez and Manuela Archuleta... creating a legitimate SANCHEZ family, and naming Felipe and Manuela as the maternal grandparents of their children.

These children were never illegitimate. For the first half of their lives they the legitimate children of Damian and Micaela Archuleta (grandparents). In the second half of their lives they were the legitimate children of Felipe Sanchez and Manuela Archuleta.

Juana Micaela Salazar- Archuleta died in Arroyo Hondo in 1839. Her record of burial was written by an Our Lady Of Guadalupe church priest.

Birth & Baptism

Juana Micaela Salazar was born in December 1752, in Chama, New Mexico, New Spain. She was baptized on December 6, 1752 at the Santa Clara Mission, Santa Clara Pueblo. The original Church record translates to this:  :In six days of the month of December of the year of one thousand seven hundred and fifty and two Baptized Solemnly Juana Michaela, the legitimate daughter of Miguel Salazar and of Francisca de Luna. There were Godparents: Pedro Sanches and Michaela Quintana and for the record I sign it (Priests' signature).

Marriage & Family

• Juan Damian Archuleta and Juana Micaela Salazar were married on January 29, 1772, in Holy Cross Catholic Church, Santa Cruz, Nueva Mexico, Nueva Spain. The Original Church marrige record translates to this:

" On the twenty-ninth of January of one thousand seven hundred seventy- two years, having presided over the necessary proceedings that the sacred Council of Trent mandates and this not resulting in any impediments I married and veiled in front of the congregation Juan Damian Archuleta with Juana Michaela Salazar. The Godparents were Joseph Miguel Lucero and Josepha Salazar; and for the record I sign ut supra [latin: as also above/ as previously] Fray Andres Garcia

Residences

• Places/residences where children were born:
• Chama and Santa Clara, New Mexico
• Abiqui, New Mexico
• Arroyo Hondo, Taos, New Mexico

Juana Micaela and her family lived in Arroyo Hondo, a village close enough to Taos to be part of its parish.

Death & Burial

Juana Micaela passed away in 1839, likely in Arroyo Hondo. Her church record of death was written by a priest of Our Lady Of Guadalupe Church in Taos. This is the translation of her church death record:

"In this parish of Taos on the 1st day of the month of July of the year 1839. I, (the priest) "Don" Antonio José Martinez buried the body of the deceased Juana Micaela Salasar in the cemetery of the chapel of "Nuestra Señora de los Dolores" (Our Lady of the Sorrows), the widow of the deceased Damian Archuleta. To the deceased, I gave, to help in her illness, the saint sacraments of penance and extreme unction. She had nothing to make a will, she left four living children and to certify I sign.

António Jozé Martinez

The Chapel of Our Lady of Dolores

Research Notes

• Her death place was likely in Rio Hondo where her home was in the parish of Taos, which would now be Taos, Taos, New Mexico, United States. The parish of Taos was not officially incorporated until 1934. The county of Taos was not formed until 1852 (as one of the original nine counties of New Mexico Territory). In 1824 New Mexico became a Mexican Territory (after Mexican Independence). The state before that time was a colony named New Mexico (named in 1563) belonging to New Spain.

Sources

• Juana Micaela Salazar Church Baptism Record. Spanish Handwritten. Santa Clara Mission, Santa Clara Pueblo. ^[1]

• Juana Micaela Salazar Second Baptism Record Source. The Great New Mexico Pedigree Project Profile Id: I87151 Original Church document with translation.[1]

• Damian Archuleta and Juana Michaela Salasar Marriage Record, 29 Jan 1772; Holy Cross Church, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, New Mexico ^[2]

• Juana Salazar, Mother. Mentioned in the record birth & baptism record of Antonia Rita Archuleta. 24 May 1776 Santa Clara Mission, Santa Clara, NM.

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• Micaela Salazar, Mother. Mentioned in the baptism record of María Manuela Archuleta. 06 Oct 1787; Holy Cross Church, Santa Clara, Rio Arriba, NM [2]

• Micaela Salazar, Mother of the bride. Mentioned in the Marriage Record of Jose Candelaria Garcia and Antonia Rita Archuleta. 05 May 1794. Santo Tomás Apóstol, Abiquiu, Rio Arriba, New Mexico ^[4]

• Juana Mecaela Salazar. Mother Of the bride. Mentioned in the record of Julian Archuleta and Maria Manuela Varela. 12 Oct 1799 Santo Tomás Apóstol, Abiquiu, Rio Arriba, New Mexico.^[5]

• Juana Micaela Salarzar-Archuleta Church Record Of Death-Burial . July 1, 1839. Our Lady Of Guadalupe Church Records, Taos, New Mexico. Buried July 1, 1839, Our Lady Of Sorrows Church Cemetery Taos, Taos, New Mexico. ^[6]

See Also:

• Pueblo Public Library New Mexico Reference-Culture-Genealogy [3]