María Dolores Chávez

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: ⁵⁰⁹
María Dolores Chaves married Agustín de la Peña, 19 Mar 1798, at Isleta. Their marriage sponsers were Lorenzo Gutiérrez and doña Candelaria García. They were granted a dispensation to marry because they were related.

~Aqui Se Comienza, p. 197

María married José Agustín Cesario de la Peña, son of Juan Antonio de la Peña and María Antonia Alveres Fondon, on 19 Mar 1798 in San Agustín de la Isleta, Isleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España.³⁴

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ⁴³⁸
la José Agustin Cesario de Peña and María Dolores Chaves, Isleta, 20 November 1797-8 January 1798, AHAD-1OO, f. 664-69.

José Agustín Cesario de la Peña, 27, español, was widowed his first wife, Lorenza Gutiérrez. His parents were natives of México City and citizens of the puesto of San Ysidro de Jose Pajarito in the Isleta jurisdiction. Maria Dolores Chaves, 15, stated that she and were not Jose it related. Agustín stated that he had heard said that María Dolores was a relative of María Lorenza Gutierrez to whom he had been married but did not know in what degree. He added that he had lived in the area for more than ten years.
Witnesses:
Toribio García Jurado, 65, explained the relationship between the parties as being in the third and fourth degrees of affinity because De la Peña had been married to María Lorenza Gutiérrez:

1st degree	Nicolás Chaves	Pedro Chaves	Pedro Chaves	2 brothers
2nd degree	María Chaves	Mónica Chaves	Francisco Javier Chaves	1st cousins
3rd degree	María Manuel Aguirre	Apolonia Baca	Domingo Chaves	2nd cousins
4th degree	María Dolores Chaves	Lorenza Gutiérrez	María Dolores Chaves	3rd cousins

José García Jurado, 63
Pedro Padilla, 62

Licenciado Juan Francisco Domínguez, senior priest at the cathedral of México City, certified baptismal information that was included in the proceedings, indicating that on 30 Aug 1769, with permission of Nuño Núñez de Villavicencio, senior priest, Francisco José Azpiros baptized an infant born on the 27th of the month named Agustín Cesario, the legitimate son of Juan Antonio de la Peña and María Antonia Álvarez Fanden. His godfather was José Alcalá, citizen of México City.

A copy of a baptismal record from San Agustín de la Isleta indicated that on 14 Feb 1782 Father Bernal baptized a two-day-old infant named Marla Dolores, the legitimate daughter of Domingo Chaves and of María Manuela Aguirre. Her godparents were Manuel Antonio Varela and his wife, Francisca Antonia Maese.

All were citizens of the puesto of San Andrés de los Padillas. The proceedings were forwarded to Durango with Father Sánchez's comment that de la Pena was an orphan with two children, whom he had abandoned until he remarried. In Durango on 8 Jan 1798, Bishop Olivares y Benito granted a dispensation.

New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1760-1799, pp. 130-131

  Marriage Notes:

San Agustín de la Isleta Marriages and Baptisms, p. 57 ³⁴