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https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/new-mexico
New Mexico began as unnamed land in North America.
The British Colonies of America obtained statehood following the Revolutionary war. The project of US Southern Colonies ends with :The American Revolution (1776). Western colonies were still being colonized for many years. See US History Project.
The Early Indian groups of New Mexico were Anasazi, Mogollon, Hohokam. These groups were ancestors of Indian Groups to move into this area. The earliest peoples most probably migrated from northern areas of North America most probably travieling from Siberia over the Bering Land Bridge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_Mexico http://newmexicohistory.org/historical-events-and-timeline/precontact The Anasazi culture then became the more recent Chaco. https://www.crowcanyon.org/EducationProducts/peoples_mesa_verde/pueblo_II_overview.asp The Ancestral Pueblo culture were located in the Four corners area (geographically land which four state regions meet each other - Arizona region, New Mexico region, Utah region, and Colorado region). They lived in stone and adobe dwellings, the Cliff dwellings, and the Great Houses, called by the Spanish "the Pueblos". http://newmexicohistory.org/timeline/anasazi-people-settle-jemez-mountains/ https://www.npca.org/trips/22-puebloan-mystery-mesa-verde-chaco-canyon-and-canyon-de-chelly
  • 1200-1500 CE The people had abandoned the ancient sites, and moved along the Rio Grande, Acoma and Zuni regions of western New Mexico. Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde Pueblos were deserted. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416585710100 The Hopi persisted in farming the ancestral Anasazi homeland, with no permanent rivers. After this the Navajos, Apaches, and Athabascan -speaking groups arrived in the Southwest areas; Timeline of New Mexico
  • c. 1510–1554 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado led an exploratory expedition, searching for "the Seven Cities of Cibola - Cities of Gold". The unsuccessful expedition traveled as far as the Kansas area. After Francisco Coronada de Vaca explored New Mexico, the land was almost forgotten for a few years. The Franciscan missionaries in Chihuahua, learned the Native American Indians traded with other Indian groups in the north and traded with others who farmed large fields.
  • 1581 Fray Agustin Rodrigues and other missionaries explored there with a small military escort, led by Francisco Sanchez Chamuscado from Mexico in 1581. [1] Later New Mexilco became became a Colony of Spain with colonies inhabited by citizens from the area.
nearby colonies/territories
  • March 11, 1583 Antonio de Espejo provided the first historical record of El Morro and El Estanque de Penol (the pool at the great rock) when he explored New Mexico. El Morro Monument
  • 1598 - Spanish Colonization of "The Kingdom of New Mexico" -- Juan de Oñate led the first colonists, consisting of approximately 130 Spanish soldiers with their families and servants from New Spain, into the province of New Mexico, establishing the first capital in San Juan de los Caballeros at confluence of Rio Grande and Rio Chama. Timeline of New Mexico, Wikipedia
  • 1598-1693 - Of more than 200 families named on the Oñate lists, less than 40 stayed to make homes there.[2] Newly arrived soldiers married daughters and grand-daughters of the first colonists and stayed. [2]
  • 1600 - Eighty soldiers and some of their families arrived to supplement the original (130 ConquestadorsOñate original (130 conquistadors) arrived to supplement the colony. [2]
  • 1641 – Governor Luis de Rosas’ assassination by Nicolas Ortiz. Rosas’ fight with the Franciscan priests and the Spanish residents who supported them had caused chaos. In 1641, the Santa Fe city council removed him from office and put him under house arrest. Ortiz with his five accomplices murdered him, claiming that he had had an affair with Ortiz’s wife. When the new governor arrived, he arrested and beheaded eight of Rosas’ worst enemies in order to restore power to the Royal Spanish government. Don Luis de Rosas, Dossier concerning the abuses of Luis de Rosas, governor of New Mexico (1637-1641). English version begins on page 203.
  • 10 August 1680, the Pueblo Revolt (Popé's Rebellion). The indigenous Pueblo peoples in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México had an uprising against the Spanish, killing about 400 colonists and priests and driving the rest out of New Mexico for twelve years. The rebellion was sparked primarily by the natives' anger at the priests for taking away their religion and forcing them to become Catholics. Pueblo Revolt, Pueblo Rebellion, Britannica Pueblo Rebellion
  • 1692-1693 - After a 12 year exile in the El Paso del Norte region, Diego de Vargas led soldiers back into New Mexico in a ceremonial reconquest of New Mexico. This seemed to last one year as the first group of colonists arrived in 1693. Some natives continued to attack the colonists for many years. Timeline of New Mexico.
  • 1693-1695 - Colonist families settled near Guadalupe del Paso. The 2nd group, the "Españoles Mexicanos"arrived from New Spain with artisans from Mexico City and farmers from the Valley of Mexico. The 3rd group, recruited mainly from Zacatecas, New Spain, arrived in 1695.[2]
  • 1706 - Founding of Alburquerque by Interim Gov. F. Cuervo y Valdé.
  • 1786 - Official peace between Spaniards and Comanches - Gov. Bautista de Anza and Ecueracapa, spokesman of Cuchanec band of Comanches, established a (35 a year peace treaty until Mexican independence, 1821).
Buffalo hunting
  • 1807 - Zebulon M Pike explored New Mexico from the USA, mapping the Red River. His was captured in northern New Mexico and taken to Santa Fe and Chihuahua before being released.
  • Aug 1821 Mexico won its independence from Spain. The colony became a Colony of Mexico. Provincia de Nuevo México, Nueva España (New Mexico Colony, New Spain). According to Wikipedia, Hispanos in New Mexico occupied the northern part of New Mexico and the Southern part of Colorado. These Hispanos of New Mexico descended from the original Spanish-speaking settlers of the historical region of Santa Fe de Nuevo México. The descendants of the early settlers in northern New Mexico compose >340,000 population ethnic community in New Mexico. The Neomexicanos identify strongly with their Spanish heritage and most are also mestizos of mixed American Indian heritage.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanos_of_New_Mexico
  • 1837 - Chimayó Rebellion - Northern New Mexicans in Chimayó area revolted against the Mexican government, protesting the unfair taxation, and poor military protection.
  • 1846 - U.S. invasion of New Mexico - Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny led United States forces to occupy New Mexico. The Battle of Brazilto, Dec 25, 1846 was a clash with the Mexican troops, routing them at Battle of Brazito on Dec 25, 1846
  • Jan. 1847 Taos Rebellion New Mexico resisted U.S. military occupation in Taos, killing Gov. Bent and others. Col. Sterling Price led the US forces against rebels, defeating them at the Taos Pueblo.
  • 1848 The Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Mexico lost almost half of its territory: parts of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. Other colonies became Mexican territories after the Mexican-American War,1848 Treaty of Hidalgo Wikipedia Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • The Military District of New Mexico overlapped the Mexican-American war. New Mexico State Historian states the New Mexico Military District of USA was between August 18, 1846 and September 8, 1850.” [3]

“According to our New Mexico State Historian the New Mexico Military District of USA was between August 18, 1846 and September 8, 1850.”

I am adding this information to complete the ‘citation’ history for NMex genealogy research and profiles including years during the war with Mexico:

This information from the New Mexico State Historian indicates that the Military District of the USA overlaps the years of the Mexican-American War [April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848]. The Territory of New Mexico existed from September 9, 1850, until January 5th, 1912. New Mexico was added as the 47th State to the Union on January 6, 1912.


Colony Origin/History

Santa Fe de Nuevo México, (English: Holy Faith of New Mexico) (shortened as Nuevo México or Nuevo Méjico, translated: New Mexico), was a province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and after 1821, a territory of independent Mexico. It existed from late 16th century to 1848.Santa Fe New Mexico

Evolution of Government Structure

1503 The Encomienda system began in the New Mexico area.. The crown in Spain, granted to a conquistador, soldier, official or others a specific amount of "indios" (Native Americans) living in an area. The Encomenderos (receiver of grant) would receive tribute in "indios" in gold or labor. An encomienda (from Spanish encomendar, “to entrust”) consisted of a grant by the crown to a conquistador, a soldier, an official, or others of a specified number of “Indios” (Native Americans} The encomendero, could exact tribute from the “Indios” in gold, or in labour. In return the Encomenderos was supposed to protect the “Indios” and teach them Christianity. The Encomenderos gained control of lands from the "Indios", but did not fulfill their end of this system. https://www.britannica.com/topic/encomienda

https://magoosh.com/hs/apush/2017/encomienda-system-apush-topics/

  • 1512 - The Laws of Burgos, signed by King Ferdinand II of Aragon, focusing upon the welfare of conquered native peoples in effect before New Mexico was colonized.
  • 1542 - Leyes Nuevas issued November 20, 1542 by King Charles I of Spain regarding colonization of the Americas, known as the "New Laws of the Indies for Good Treatment and Preservation of the Indians", and were created to prevent the exploitation of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas by Encomenderos (large enterprise landowners) and limited their power and dominion.
  • 1548 - Royal Audiencia of Guadalajara was highest tribunal of the Spanish crown in what is today northern Mexico and SW United States in the Vice royalty of New Spain. It was created by royal decree on February 13, 1548, and was originally located in Compostela and permanently seated in Guadalajara in 1560. Its president: chief executive officer, subordinated only to the viceroy of Mexico
  • 1573 - The Laws of Indies - to guide and regularize establishing of presidios (military towns), missions, and pueblos . King Phillip II developed the first version of Laws of the Indies.
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  • 1776 - Provincias Internasor Commandancy General of Internal Provinces of the North was a colonial, administrative district of Spanish Empire, created to provide more autonomy for frontier provinces in Viceroyalty of New Spain, present day New. Mexico and S.W. United States. Goal of its creation was to establish a unified government in political, military and fiscal affairs.
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  • 1821-1823 - The Mexican Empire (Imperio Mexicano) -official name of independent Mexico under a monarchical regime, Agustín de Iturbide, was proclaimed emperor of Mexico.
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  • 1824 - Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1824 (Spanish: Constitución Federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos de 1824) - enacted on October 4,1824, after the overthrow of Mexican Empire of Agustin de Iturbide. The Republic took the name of United Mexican States, and was defined as a representative federal republic. Catholicism was the official and unique religion
  • 1835 - President Santa Ana revoked the Constitution of 1824. In October 1835, Santa Ana abolished all state governments.
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Conflicts Within The Colony

  • 10 August 1680, the United Pueblo people rebelled, driving Spaniards out of New Mexico colony 82 years after settlement
  • 1786 - Peace between Spaniards and Comanches- Gov. Juan Bautista de Anza and Ecueracapa, leader of Cuchanec band, spokesman for Comanches, conclude peace treaty establishing 35 year peace until advent of Mexican independence
  • 1837 Chimayó Rebellion - North New Mexicans revolt, in Chimayó area, against Mexican government, protest of unwelcome governor, unfair taxation, and poor military protection.
  • 1846 - Mexican American War -Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny led United States forces to occupy New Mexico near Santa Fe., New Mexico colony.
  • 1847 Taos Rebellion, Jan., 1847 New Mexicans resist US military occupation, kill Gov. C. Bent and his household in Taos. Col. Sterling Price led US forces against the rebels, defeating them at the Taos Pueblo.


Settlers

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New Mexico is inland, settlers arrived here either by walking, riding horses, mules or in wagons. The Rio Grande River may have provided some access, but horses, mules, or walking would still be needed for the central and western areas of this Colony.

  • 1) Original American Indians, native to the area. See also Encomienda System under Government
  • 2) Spanish explorers and early settlers n the colony.
  • 3) Oñate Expedition Soldiers, and Families
  • 4) Other Colonists from New Spain
  • 5) Colonists from Mexico Colony, New Spain
  • 6) Colonists from the United States
  • 7 ) Colonists from Texas Colony
  • 8) European Colonists in later years.

Migrating From other Colonies

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American Indians

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  • The Dawes Rolls, (Final Rolls of the Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory) 1898-1914
  • Hohokam
  • Anasazi of NW New Mexico, SW Colorado, SE Utah, and NE Arizona
  • Arapaho of Northern New Mexico, Colorado. Running Reality Arapaho
  • Mogollon - along Arizona/New Mexico border. Branch of Mogollon: Mimbres culture, produced some of the finest examples of prehistoric pottery
  • Hopi American Indians persisted in the ancestral Anasazi homeland, continuing to farm region with no permanent rivers.
  • Athapaskan peoples along periphery of Rio Grande Valley.
  • 1000 years ago-Bison-hunting nomads (ancestors of the New Mexico Navajo and Apachean speaking tribes, began migrated from west-central Canada (ancestors of New Mexico's Navajo and Apachean-speaking tribes).
  • Chiricahua and Mescalero, migrated SW into eastern Arizona and SW New Mexico

The (19) Pueblos Indian citizens: Jicarilla Apache Nation, Mescalero Apache Tribe, Navajo Nation, Pueblos of Acoma, Taos, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, San Felipe, Jemez, Zuni, Zia, Nambe, Picuris, Ohkay Owingeh, Santo Domingo, Laguna, Isleta, Santa Ana, Sandia, Cochiti, and Pojoaque.


  • Coal production - Significant role in the economic development of New Mexico (from 1850's to present day). It is one of 4 mineral fuels produced in New Mexico, ranking third in value behind natural gas, (including coal bed methane) and crude oil. Coal resources are in 12% (14.6 million acres) of the state’s total area. (N. New Mexico, primarily in San Juan and Raton basins). Coal provides 46% of the state’s total energy needs today's power generated from coal.
Hatch Chili Peppers
  • Hatch, New Mexico chile peppers
  • Oil, and natural gas - late 1800’s; 1921 - first gas well. [4]
  • Uranium ore - New Mexico has 2nd largest identified uranium ore reserve.
  • Agriculture - include cultivation such as many peppers used in U.S.


Oñate's 1598 Colonization -Soldiers-conquistadors and families

Oñate

Several sources have compiled a list of conquistadors who soldiered with the 1598 Oñate Colonization Expedition into NM. There is a genealogy possibility to source ancestors and possibly from the information recognize the genealogy possibilities in this information. Then search deeper for connections, rather than just a list of names. People can use the information on this website source to:

1) Take advantage of the names to do new research or add sourcing to existing or new family genealogy.
2) Explore how some of these conquistadors and their descendants impacted and contributed to NM history. For example explore the tragic stories of the son and grandson of soldier Asencio Archuleta, (Juan I and Juan II).
3) Take advantage of the information on home towns to explore deeper into your Spanish roots and history. For example, one Romero descendant is now tracing the possibility that conquistador, Bartolome Romero might have had an earlier ancestor who sailed on the Nina with Columbus. "New Mexico’s first colonists : the 1597-1600 enlistments for New Mexico under Juan de Oñate, Adelante & Gobernador" is an outstanding book by D. Snow on the entire Onate colonization group. This website provides a source list of just the conquistadors: *http://bernalillo.nmgenweb.us/mustero.htm

Source: for the Soldiers-Conquistadors:

Conquestidors
HISTORICAL DOCUMENT: A true and accurate portrait of a ‘working’ 1598 Oñate Conquistador. This letter was written in 1597 by 26-year-old Oñate Conquistador Ascencio Archuleta before he left on the Oñate Expedition. It was written in the Valle de San Bartolomé, now the Valle de Allende in southern Chihuahua, Mexico. It details the gear and armor of a true conquistador. All credit and thanks to The Great New Mexico Pedigree Project which is the source of the translated letter:
I Asencio Arechuleta, am taking to serve his majesty in the expedition to Nuevo México: first one set of armour for myself consisting of chain mail, bevor/neck protector (babera de malla), coat of mail (cota de malla), matchlock harquebus and fork rest (arcabus de mecha y harquilla), cuisses/hip shields (faldones), sword (espada), mailed glove (guante mallada), hose (medias), and a leather shield (adarga), horse armor, 2 Jineta saddles and tack, half a dozen pairs of horse shoes and nails, 10 horses and 2 mules.
All of this I am taking to serve his majesty on this expedition to Nuevo México, and I swear by God and the cross that everything contained is mine. In testimony and truth, I signed my name. Done on December 7, 1597. Signed – Asencio de Arechuleta” Witnessed by Jaime Fernandez in the valley of San Bartolomé, Santa Barbara.
In 1598 the large colonizing expedition of Juan de Oñate paused for several months at Santa Bárbara for inspection by the government before setting out for the uncharted north. *http://newmexicohistory.org/places/chihuahua-trail

WikiTree profile: Steve Archuleta https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Archuleta-235


Don Juan de Oñate , Albuquerque, NM

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Oñate brought colonizing families after his expedition. When the families arrived in the New Mexico Colony they were important to New Mexico's history. The research was done by Antonio Gilberto Espinosa for the Coronado Cuarto Centennial Commission, 1939-1940. Below this is a Link to another webpage that provides a little information on each of them. For those of you with New Mexico ancestry-heritage, you may find your family in the Founders.

  • Acebo-, Algecira- Alonso-, Amuira-, Ascensio Arechuleta Ayrdi-, Banulids-, Baradna-, Benehuma-, Bernal-, Barrios-, Brito-, Bocanegra-, Bustillo-, Brondate-, Cabinilas-, Caceres-, Cadimo-, Carajal-, Castro-, Castellano-, Catalan-, Calvo-, Carrasco-, Cesar-, Chaves-, Cogedo-, Colodro-, Cortez-, Cruz-, Cordero-, Diaz-, Diez-, Donas-, Duran-, Escalante-, Escarramad-, Espinosa-, Farfan-, Fernandez-, Flores-, Francisco-, Garcia-, Gomez-, Gonzalez-, Griego-, Guzman-, Guilien-, Guevarra-, Hernandez-, Herrera-, Heredia-, Hinojos-, Holguin-, Jorge-, Lara-, Ledesma-, Leon-, Lizama-, Lopez-, Lucas-, Lucero-, Manzoneda-, Marquez-, Martin-, Martinez-, Medel-, Melgar-, Mexia-, Montesinus-, Montano-, Montoya-, Monzon-, Morales-, Moran-, Moreno-, Munuera-, Naranjo-, Olague-, Oñate-, Ortega-, Pedraza-, Pineiro-, Quesada-, Ramirez-, Rangel-, Rua-, Rascon-, Requirno-, Reyes-, Rio-, Rivas-, Rivera-, Robledo-, Rodriguez-, Roja-, Romero-, Rijato-, Sosa-, Saldivar-, Sanchez-, Santilian-, Sarinana-, Segura-, Serrango-, Simon-, Tavora-, Torres-, Tordesilas-, Trevino-, Trujillo-, Vaca-, Valencia-, Vanda-, Varela-, Vaegas-, Vasquez- , Vayd-, Vega-, Velasco-, Vellido-, Velman-, Vido-, Villagra-, Vilagra-, Villaba-, Ximenez-, Xuarez-, Xranzo-, Ysasti-, Zaldivar.


Interpretation of English Names to Spanish Names

  • Note:New Spain region ended when a Colony or territory became a Republic or a State.
1598 - Aug 1821 Santa Cruz, Provincia de Nuevo México, Nueva España
Santa Cruz Colony, Nueva New Spain
Aug 1821 - Aug 1846 Santa Cruz, Nuevo México, República de México
Santa Cruz Colony, Mexico
Aug 1846 - Sep 1850 Santa Cruz, Nuevo México, New Mexico, Military District of USA
Aug, 1846 - Santa Cruz, New Mexico Territory, Santa Cruz Military District of USA
1848 -1850 Santa Cruz, Nuevo México, Distrito Militar de Estados Unidos de América
Santa Cruz, New Mexico Territory, United States
1850-1912 - Santa Cruz, Territorio de Nuevo Mexico
1850-1912 - Santa Cruz, New Mexico Territory
1912 - Santa Cruz, Nuevo Mexico, Estados Unidos de América
1912 - Santa Cruz, New Mexico, United States (Statehood) - The end of NEW Spain subproject

Full History up to 2019:

Sources

  1. http://newmexicohistory.org/2014/02/03/colonization-of-new-mexico-in-the-16th-century/
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period", by Fray Angelico Chavez, Revised Edition, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1992.)
  3. Great New Mexico Pedigree Project Staff
  4. http://www.nmoga.org

*Hatch chile peppers grown in Hatch, NM

Further Reading

By Frank S. Edwards A Volunteer; with a Map of the Route, and a Table of the Distances Traversed; Philadelphia Care and Hart 1847

Free Resources

  • http://www.wikitree.com
  • http://sangres.com/
  • http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
  • https://familysearch.org/
  • State maps available at: Digital Topo Maps. NOTE: A disclaimer is required when used. This can be placed under the comments on the photo page.
  • Animated flags available at: AB Flags NOTE: Disclaimer is required when used. This can be placed under comments on the photo page.
  • http:www.nmgs.org/ "The New Mexico Genealogical Society (NMGS)" have "Locating Catholic Church Records" on their website.
  • www.hgrc-nm.org "The Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico (HGRC)" has database of 200,000 people of New Mexico families and can be accessed for free
  • www.abqgen.swnet.com "The Albuquerque Genealogical Society (AGS)" have volunteers to help with genealogy needs
  • www.gsha.net "Genealogical Society of Hispanic America" Hispanic genealoical and historical research, education
  • Hispanic Genealogical Research Center (HGRC). GNPD


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Paid Resource Sites

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12 Families "Doze Familias", Las Trampas Land Grant, Taos County, New Mexico <https://www.kmitch.com/Taos/trampas.htm>

Land was granted to 12 heads of the 12 Families

posted by Mary Gossage
Hi Mary, this is another (great!) freespace page that needs reference to US Southern Colonies removed. Check out https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:New_Mexico as an alternative home for it.

Thanks!

posted by Jillaine Smith
Genealogy and historical information on EVERY COUNTY in the entire state is provided on the New Mexico American History and Genealogy Project (AHGP) webpage. From what I could tell on a brief glance through the website it contains numerous databases and other relevant genealogy records that will definitely help people with their New Mexico research. A great example is the Taos Death Record database that contains a snippet of information on Church records of Taos deaths for 100 years (!). Here is the link to the larger ALL State of New Mexico genealogy page. https://nmahgp.genealogyvillage.com/
posted by Steve Archuleta
Another good website for New Mexico genealogy is the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center (HGRC). It is the home of the Great New Mexico Pedigree Project GNMPD). The Pedigree Project has genealogy profiles of NM people going back to the 1500's that spotight the person, his/her family, and the prior parental generation, There are no perfect genealogy websites/databases as to sourcing and data, and the GNMPD has its hits and misses too, What I have appreciated is that GNMPD staff is open to hearing that there might be an issue with sourcing/records in its database, and in my experience (and others) they look into it . If a change/edit is justified they make it. Most, not all of the profiles on GNMPD have appropriate sourcing, but I also recommend GNMPD because the staff responds appropriately to investigate when a problem is brought to their attention,
posted by Steve Archuleta
Under "Slaves" you may want to add an explanation of the encomienda system in which encomenderos were assigned groups of natives who were forced to pay tributes to them in cash, goods, and labor. Theoretically, they received protection and education in exchange. Basically, it was used for slave labor.
posted by Marcie (Korte) Ruiz
1694 - Another important group of colonists were "the artisan families that came from Mexico City to Santa Fe in 1694 [infusing] New Mexico’s frontier society with aspects of urban refinement, literacy in particular, and artisan expertise. Among these families were carpenters, painters, weavers, tailors, blacksmiths, brickmasons, stonemasons, a cabinetmaker, a filigree maker, a shoemaker, and a coppersmith." The impact on a society of soldiers, farmers, and ranchers was immense. "The Artisan Families of Mexico City that Settled New Mexico in 1694," by José Antonio Esquibel.
posted by Marcie (Korte) Ruiz
(3) New Mexico Roots Ltd. (https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cswr_reference/5/). Index list of pre-nuptial investigations by the Church. (4) "To the Royal Crown Restored" by John L. Kessell and Rick Hendricks. It contains a lot of information regarding the return of the colonists in 1693 after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
posted by Marcie (Korte) Ruiz
Other sources I highly recommend: (1) Beyond Origins of New Mexico Families (https://sites.google.com/site/beyondoriginsofnmfamilies/). Updates for "Origins of New Mexico Families" by Chavez. (2) USGenWeb Archives for NM (http://www.usgwarchives.net/). Click on "Search the New Mexico USGenWeb Archives" on the far right column of any County. They are creating index lists for microfilm that hasn't been indexed yet. Useful info to help locate church records. Tricky to navigate.
posted by Marcie (Korte) Ruiz
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