Matías Luján (abt. 1655 - bef. 1707)

Born about 1655 in San Cristóbal, Nuevo México, Nueva España [uncertain]

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Died before 1707 before about age 52 in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo México, Nueva España [uncertain]

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Biography

Matías was born about 1655,^[1] possibly to Juan Luís Luján and an unknown mother. He was married to Francisca Romero about 1674 and they had three daughters, Catalina, Antonia, and María Juana, by the time of the Pueblo Rebellion in 1680.^[2] They survived and were living in Guadalupe del Paso in 1684 with two more children, Felipe and Juana; they were extremely poor. They had no food and barely any clothing for Matías and Francisca - the rest of the family was "naked."^[3] In 1693 they returned to New Mexico with four more children: Juan, Pascual, Miguel and Manuela.^[4] They settled in the Santa Cruz de la Cañada area.^[2] Matías died sometime before 1707 when his wife was listed as a widow in the 1707 Santa Cruz de la Cañada census.^[5]

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, p. 124.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} 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. 63, 213, and 369.
3. ↑ "1684 El Paso Census." Herencia, Vol. 6 (January 1998): 23-35, specifically 30.
4. ↑ Kessell, John L., Rick Hendricks, and Meredith Dodge, editors, To the Royal Crown Restored: The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1692-1694, (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press,1995), p. 60 and 92, note 93.
5. ↑ Esquibel, José Antonio. Early Settlers of Santa Cruz de la Cañada, 1695-1715. (No place: Self-published, 2015); PDF, Sierra Azul Monograph No. 1 (2015), Beyond Origins of NM Families, https://sites.google.com/site/beyondoriginsofnmfamilies/early-settlers-of-santa-cruz-de-la-canada-1695-1715, p. 67.

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