María Josefa Escobedo

  Noted events in her life were:

• Framily Connection: ³⁴
1 Jan 1782 - Santiago Romero, widow of Pasquala Quintana, married Petra Antonia Rivas, daughter of Manuel Rivas and María Escovedo, all of Belén. Padrinos: Feliciano Montoya and his wife, María de la Trinidada García Jurado.

San Agustín de la Isleta Marriages and Baptisms, p. 29

María married Manuel Jorge de la Rivas Solar, son of Juan de la Rivas Solar and Juana María Sores, on 28 Apr 1763 in San Agustín de la Ysleta, Ysleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España.³⁴ (Manuel Jorge de la Rivas Solar was born about 1738 in El Real de San Eulalia, Chihuahua, Nueva España ²⁴⁸ and died before 23 Dec 1781 in Belén, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
11 Mar 1763, Belén. Manuel Jorge de la Riba Solar (25), español, native of El Real de Santa Eulalia living in the mission of San Agustín de Isleta, having come to serve in the New Mexico militia, son of don Juan de la Riba Solar and doña Juana María Sores, deceased, and doña María Josefa Escobedo (17), española of Belén, daughter of don José Escobedo, deceased and doña Teresa García.

Witnesses:
Joaquín José Pino, notary
don José García (28) of Bernalillo who knew the groom for six years at el Real de Chihuahua and two years in New Mexico
don Antonio Baca (55), Alcalde Mayor and Caitán a Guerra of the Isleta district who had brought the groom from Chihuahua
don Pedro Yturrieta (31) of Belén
don Manuel Gallego (32) of Belén
don Sebastián Sueco (39) of Real de Santa Eulalia, now living in New Mexico and who knew the groom since the age of ten or eleven, when he left home in 1760.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, pp. 1561-1562