Cristóbal Durán y Chávez

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Cristóbal Durán y Chaves was imprisoned with his father and his uncle Pedro in 1663. Still single in that year, he gave his age as twenty-four, stating that he was a resident of the Sandía district. In the following year he said that he was twenty-five, still at Sandía, and married to Catalina Domínguez de Mendoza, who was a daughter of Tomé Domínguez II and Catalina López Mederos. In 1667 he pulled out a dagger on a friar for writing satires on certain New Mexicans. As he does not appear in the 1680 lists, it is presumed that he was dead or had left New Mexico."

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 20