Alonso Martin Martín Barba, I

18 Aug 1598.

Alonso was a member of the 1598 Oñate settlement. He is also consider one of the loyalists who remained in New México.

Alonso Martín Barba I had land on the east side of the Río del Norte (Río Grande) on the east, the Río del Norte-Río Chama junction of the north, Santa Clara Pueblo to the south, and hills to the west. Alonso I was with Oñate during their entrada into New Mexico as well as signing the 1601 loyalty petition. Alonso was mention as a resident of La Cañada in 1661. His second wife, Francisca de Herrera Abrego, was related to families that held the land on the east side of the Río Grande north of where it junctions with the Río Santa Cruz.

Alonso Martín Barba was a fifty-year-old captain living in Santa Fé in 1632. His wife was María Martín, allegedly poisoned by María Bernal with whom Alonso was having relations. A daughter of his was María de los Ángeles, twenty-two, was the widow of Gaspar de Arratia, and a son, Diego, was married to Isabel de Cabinillas. In 1634, his grand daughter, Ynez de Zamora, child of married Alférez Diego de Montoya and Ana Martín, married Sargento Juan López. Alonso himself, fifty-three at the time, and his second wife, Francisca de Herrera de Abrega, were Padrinos. This Francisca de Herrera Abrego escaped the Pueblo Revolt with eight children and grandchildren, all very poor.