Capitán Manuel Baca

BACA FAMILY HISTORY 1681

MANUEL BACA was 25 years of age in 1681 when, as a soldier, he was with IGNACIO BACA at Guadalupe del Paso in 1684 under Captain Roque Madrid. He was described as having a “ruddy” complexion & very wavy hair. He was married to MARIA DE SALAZAR (HURTADO) who returned with him & their many children in 1693.

Important LINEAGE documentation regarding MARIA DE SALAZAR HURTADO = It has been documented by more than one source (e.g., "Origins of New Mexico Families" by Fray Angelico Chavez; "Herencia Quarterly Journal of HGRC of New Mexico"; "Chaves - A Distinctive American Clan of New Mexico" by Angelico Chavez) – that after her biological father, BARTOLOME DE SALAZAR, died in 1662, DIEGO DE TRUJILLO took her (MARIA DE SALAZAR) & her 2 infant sisters (MARIA JOSEFA DE HINOJOS & ISABEL DE SALAZAR) from their half-Indian mother (1/2 Zuni & 1/2 Spanish), MARIA DE HINOJOS (an Apache or Zuni Indian) to be raised & adopted by his granddaughter, BERNARDINA SALAS Y TRUJILLO & her husband, ANDRES HURTADO. Her grandmother was simply recorded as "Zuni Woman", but was probably Apache.

Ignacio Baca died years before the Reconquest. His widow, JUANA DE ANAYA ALMAZDIN returned to New Mexico with her family only to be massacred in the Indian uprising of 1696. Of 3 surviving girls, Maria was the wife of Tomas Gutierrez Carrera, Geronima later married Francisco Rodriquez Calero, & Margarita became the wife of Diego Lucero de Godoy.

MANUEL BACA, surviving brother of Ignacio & Jose, returned to Santa Fe, NM in 1693 with his wife & family. He established himself at Bernalillo on lands that had belonged to his father, CRISTOBAL BACA. In 1699, he gave his age as 40 years & there was also a post-reconquest daughter born in 1702. In 1716, he gathered 40 Queres Indians for the Moqui Campaign & also led the Albuquerque contingent. The Indians of the 3 Queres Pueblos of Cochiti, Santo Domingo & San Felipe complained more than once about mistreatment from him & his sons – for this, he was deprived of the Alcaldia of Cochiti in 1718 & sentenced to go on the next 2 forays against infidel Indians. Both he & his wife were dead by 1727. His sons were: Antonio, Juan Antonio, Diego Manuel & Cristobal. His daughters were: Maria Magdalena (she married Jose Vasquez de Lara in 1694), Juana & Josefa (who, though unmarried have prominent descendants) & a 2nd Maria Magdalena who was born on 6/5/1702 & who married Diego Antonio Montoya & then a Juan Marquez in 1735 by whom she was murdered in 1740.