↑ "New Mexico Births and Christenings, 1726-1918", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V24G-TGC : 20 January 2020), Maria Alberta Maese, baptized 15 May 1748, Santa Fe, New Mexico; FHL microfilm #16,903, image 9.
↑ "New Mexico Marriages, 1751-1918", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FD53-PX4 : 20 January 2020), Nicolas Ortiz and Maria Alverta Maese, married 23 Oct 1765, Santa Fe, New Mexico; FHL microfilm #16,905, image 60.
↑ 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. 267; Maria Alberta Maese, buried 27 Oct 1827, widow of soldier Nicolas Ortiz.