María Bernal (abt. 1662 - bef. 1693)

Born about 1662 in Nuevo México, Nueva España

Wife of Sebastián Sánchez de Mondragón — married 1677 in Nuevo México, Nueva España

Descendants

Died before 1693 before about age 31 in Nuevo México, Nueva España

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Biography

María was born about 1662 to unknown parents. She was married to Sebastián Sánchez de Mondragón about 1677 and they had two known children, María and Juan Alonso. In 1680, she safely escaped from the Pueblo Revolt and made it Guadalupe del Paso with her husband and their two (or three) children.^[1] In 1684 they were still living there, surviving better than most of the colonists because Sebastian had managed to harvest 20 fanegas of corn.^[2] María died before Sebastian went back to Santa Fe in 1693.^[3]

Research Notes

1. Their oldest child María was born about 1678. Sebastian and María's marriage date is an estimate of one year before her birth. María was most likely about 15 when she married so her birth estimate is 1662. Sebastian married his second wife in 1693 so María must have died before then.

Sources

1. ↑ 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), Vol. 2, pp. 63 and 130.
2. ↑ "1684 El Paso Census." Herencia, Vol. 6 (January 1998): 23-35, specifically 33.
3. ↑ Chávez, Fray Angélico. Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period. (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, revised 1992), p. 233.