Salvador Espinosa

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Among the heads of families who asked to settle at Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Rio de Truchas, in 1754, were four Espinosas, apparently brothers, or at least members of one and the same family: Salvador, Ventura, Miguel, and Tadeo. Salvador had bought land in Chimayó as early as 1736. These four are possibly the sons of Nicolás Espinosa who was among the original settlers of Santa Cruz de la Cañada.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 172

• Family Connection: ²⁴⁸
12 Oct 1785, Santa Cruz. Miguel Espinosa (58), of San Bueavetura de Chimayo, widowed of María Josefa Vigil, son of Salvador Espinosa and Petra Fernández, and María Dolores Padilla (18), española of Dolores de Chimayo, daughter of José Padilla and Bárbara Bernal.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 477

Salvador married Petra Fernández.