Martín Torres

  General Notes:

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 13239-13240: Martín Torres was the son of Diego de Torres and his second wife, María Martín. He was 25 years old when he enlisted as a soldier in 1751. ²⁵²

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Soldier Martín Torres ~ Enlistment 1751. From 1598 New Mexico Blog.
Martín is described as the son of Diego de Torres & María Martín, native of the villa of Alburquerque, a farmer, 5'5" tall, 25 years of age, with black hair & eyebrows, rosy skinned, broad flat nose and having a full faced beard.

• He served in the military. ^405a
Martín Torres (1726, NM - ?), enlisted 1 Jul 1751, invalid 1 Jul 1779, farmer, son of Diégo Torres and María Martín of Alburquerque. Martín married María Francisca Pachéco on 18 Jan 1754 at la Parroquia in Santa Fé.

Spain's New Mexico Patriots in it 1779-1783 War With England During the American Revolution, p. 28.

• Census: Spanish Colonial, in 1750, in Belén, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Household #9
Diego Torres : wife, Raphaela Baca; children: Cayetano, Juan Domingo, Martin, Nicolas, Bartholomé, Manuel, Catharina Romana, María, Josepha de la Luz, Lugarda - de pecho (infant)

Spanish and Mexican Census of New Mexico, 1750-1830, p. 94

• Census: Spanish, in 1790, in Santa Fé Presidio, Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ³³
Presidio of Santa Fé
Martín Torres, Spanish born in New Mexico, 60; his wife María Pacheco, 40; one son age twenty; two daughters ages 16 & 14; adopted daughter age twenty-five; on orphan, Spanish male age twenty and other age four.

New Mexico Spanish & Mexican Census, p. 109

Martín married María Francisca Pacheco, daughter of Felipe Pacheco and Rosa Martín, on 18 Jan 1754 in La Castrense, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.³⁹² (María Francisca Pacheco was born about 1737 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)