Francisco de Apodaca

  Noted events in his life were:

• Family Connection. ²⁴⁸
29 Aug 1709, Santa Cruz, Juan Márquez, son of Francisco Márquez and Estrela Lujan, and Josefa Apodaca, daughter of Francisco Apodaca.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p 1078

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Francisco de Apodaca was a brother of José González de Apodaca, and uncle of the two preceding men. He had died, and was buried in Santa Fe, before 1695, when his widow, Juana Martín de Salazar, married Juan Olguín. She was still living at Río Arriba in 1734.

A daughter, Josefa, married Juan Márquez at Santa Cruz in 1709. A grown son, not named, was reported killed by the Jémez Indians with his step-father, Captain Juan Olguín, in the uprising of 1696, but an Indian witness declared that the youth had been taken captive instead.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 5462-5470

Francisco married Juana Martín de Salazar, daughter of Pedro Martín Serrano y Salazar and Juana Apolonia de Argüello, After 1685 and Before 1695 in El Paso del Norte, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁵² (Juana Martín de Salazar was born circa 1670 in Santa Cruz de la Canada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died after 1734 in Río Arriba, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².)