Sebastian de Salas

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Sebastián Salas, son of Bernardo de Salas and a native of Sevilla, was twenty-five years old in 1693 when he joined the colonists for New Mexico. He was of medium height, with large eyes, and a scar on the forehead. His wife was María García, twenty-three, a native of Puebla and daughter of Nicolás. María was descibed as fair, with a small nose and somewhat deep-set eyes. [Sp. Arch., II, #54c] Sebastián again gave his age as twenty-five and his birthplace the City of Sevilla in 1694. [DM, 1694, #4, 27] In 1701 he sold some land in Pojoaque, and again some more at Santa Cruz in 1703. [Sp. Arc., I, #927, 678] A son, Sebastían Higinio, was born to Sebastián de Salas and María García, January 18 Jan 1717.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, p. 278

• Background Information: Beyond Origins.
Sebastián de Salas (ONMF: 278) was a native of Sevilla, Spain, born around 1668, and a soldier. He married María García on February 9 Feb 1687 in Puebla, Mexico, and came to New Mexico with the Velasco-Farfán group in 1694. This Sebastián baptized his son Sebastián in Albuquerque in 1707, but apparently he and his family lived elsewhere, possibly Santa Fe, near the presidio. Sebastián de Salas sold land in Pojoaque in 1701, and he can be found in the musters of soldiers of the presidio of Santa Fe as late as 1713. Other documents show he was still living in 1716. This man was the progenitor of many Salas descendants in New Mexico.

Researcher: Henrietta Martínez Christmas
Sources: Beyond Origins of New Mexico Families website; Fray Angélico Chávez, "New Mexico Roots, Ltd."; Spanish Archives of New Mexico I (SANM I) #927; Kessell, Hendricks, and Dodge, To the Royal Crown Restored, 247, 269, 294, 313, 247, 269, 327; New Mexico Genealogist 35:3, Pg. 80 #53, 54; Kessell, Hendricks, and Dodge, Blood on the Boulders, 494, 1148; Kessell, Hendricks, and Dodge, That Disturbances Cease, 103-105; SANM II, #64; John B. Colligan, The Juan Páez Hurtado Expedition of 1695, 34-35.

Sebastian married María de García, daughter of Nicolas García and Josefa de Barrientos. (María de García was baptized on 18 Jan 1666 in Sagrario, Puebla de los Ángeles, Nueva España.)