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These are my New Mexico ancestors from Zacatecas.

Catalina Herrera de Cantillana married to Juan Montes Vigil II from Zacatecas on 21 Jun 1619 in Zacatecas [9th great grandparents]

Miguel de la Cruz Lara and Juana de Ancizo born in Zacatecas about 1600 [8th great grandparents]

Hernan Martin Serrano born about 1525 in Zacatecas [11 great grandfather]

Hernan Martin Serrano born about 1556 in Zacatecas and married to Juana Rodriguez, born in Zacatecas about 1563. Married in Zacatecas about 1577. [10th great grandparents].

Simon Perez de Bustillo, born abt 1576 in Zacatecas, married to Juana de Zamora Baca. [10th great grandparents]

As you can see, I don't have specific dates or locations. The dates are educated guesses.

Please direct me to the most appropriate documents.

You can see my family tree at http://www.lucerito.net/LuceroOnline/Rootsindex.htm

Stanley A. Lucero
Madera, CA

Stanley A Lucero
Madera, California

I forgot to add these ancestors:

Juan de ARGUELLO was born about 1672 in Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico. He died on 19 December 1789 in Santo Tomas Apostol del Rio de las Trampas, Taos, New Mexico, United States. He was buried on 20 December 1789 in Santo Tomas Apostol del Rio de las Trampas, Taos, New Mexico, United States. Juana Gregoria BRITO and Juan de ARGUELLO were married on 26 May 1715 in Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States.

Stanley,

Did Juan de Arguello die at 117 years old?

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Stanley A Lucero
Madera, California

I forgot to add these ancestors:

Juan de ARGUELLO was born about 1672 in Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico. He died on 19 December 1789 in Santo Tomas Apostol del Rio de las Trampas, Taos, New Mexico, United States. He was buried on 20 December 1789 in Santo Tomas Apostol del Rio de las Trampas, Taos, New Mexico, United States. Juana Gregoria BRITO and Juan de ARGUELLO were married on 26 May 1715 in Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States.

Stanley A Lucero
Madera, California

According to Tony Hillerman in his book, New Mexico, Rio Grande and other essays, 1993:

Truchas is a double line of adobe houses lining a windy cliffedge under the Truchas Peaks, and Las Trampas is a hollow square inthe narrow valley of Rito las Trampas. They were there when George Washington was born. Truchas was founded by two families, and Trampas by a man named Juan De Arguello. Arguello was seventy-seven years old and a battle-scarred veteran of a long life of frontier wars when he led his sons-in-law and their families from Santa Fe to establish this lonely and dangerous new outpost. The chronicles report that when he was ninety-nine he walked over the mountains to the Penasco Vally to ask donations for the village chapel. He died at 117. With the U.S.occupation the village lost all its communal grazing lands. But Las Trampas lives on, terribly poor, and terribly proud of its church which is a lovely and priceless example of Spanish-Colonial architecture.

I haven't found his baptism or birth record. He died 19 Dec 1789 in Las Trampas and was buried the next day.

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