Nicolás Ortiz

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647 NICOLAS ORTIZ NINO LADRON DE GUEBARA. Santa Fe. 1742.

Will. Francisco Guerrero, Alcalde. Antonio Ulibarri.

There were many valiant cavaliers accompanying the conquistador, Captain-General Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponce de Leon, to the kingdom of New Mexico in the year 1693, not the least of whom was Captain Nicolas Ortiz Nino Ladron de Guevara. He was a most adventur- ous spirit, whom a restless love of enterprise induced to join the expedition under the great Spanish captain.

An ancestor of Don Nicolas Ortiz Nino Ladron de Gue- varra had won the favor of the king by capturing from the Moors the city of Guevara, by which exploit he se- cured from his royal master the addition to his name "Nino Ladron de Guevara."

When the expedition under de Vargas left El Paso, having in view the reconquest of New Mexico, Captain Nicolas Ortiz Nino Ladron de Guevara accompanied it

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along with his family. His wife was Maria Anna Garcia Coronado; the oldest son bore the same name as the father. This son married Dona Juana Baca, and of the marriage there were three children, Nicolas Ortiz Nino Ladron Guevara, third, Francisco and Toribio Ortiz Nino Ladron de Guevara. The eldest married Dona Gertrudis Paez Hurtado, of which marriage there were two children, Juan Antonio and Antonio Jose. The last named married Dona Rosa de Bustamante, the daughter of Don Pedro de Bustamante, governor of the Province of New Mexico, of which union there were five children, among them a daughter, Ana Gertrudis Ortiz Nino La- dron de Guevara, who became the wife of Juan Domingo Baca. There were twelve children of this marriage, one of whom, Ana Maria, married Pedro Bautista Pino in the latter part of the eighteenth century.