Baltazar Baca Captain

   Another name for Baltazar was Baltasar Baca.

  Noted events in his life and other information:

• Land Grant: 16 Dec 1768. ³⁰⁹
San Jose del Encinal, Valencia, Nuevo Méjico

Original Sources:
Surveyor General 104 (23/191) & Court of Private Land Claims 114 (45/769)

• Dates & Events. ²⁵²
Baltasar Baca was just as unpopular with the Lagunas as his father, Bernabé Baca had been. He, like his father, was Alcalde Mayor of the Lagunas. He married Manuela Rael de Aquilar on 17 Jul 1738.

After Manuela died, Baltasar married his second cousin, Rafaela Baca, the widow of Diego de Tórres. They had a daughter named Micaela who married Antonio José Ortiz II.

~The Origins of New México Families, pg. 145

• Census: Spanish, 1750, San Clemente, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁷⁰
Balthasar Baca: wife, Dona Manuela Rael de Aguilar; Children: Franco, Joseph Miguel, Maria Ysabel - infant, servants: Antonia with son, Franco, Beatriz, Brianda.
~Spanish Census of 1750, pg. 95

Baltazar married Maria Manuela Rael de Aguilar, daughter of Alonso Rael de Aguilar and Tomasa Montoya, 17-18 Jul 1738 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².^,308 (Maria Manuela Rael de Aguilar was born in 1722 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España, died in Isleta, Bernilillio, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and was buried on 7 May 1758 in Isleta Pueblo, Bernilillo, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España ³⁰⁸.)

• Census: Spanish, 1750, San Clemente, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ⁴⁵
Balthasar Baca: wife, Dona Manuela Rael de Aguilar; Children: Franco, Joseph Miguel, Maria Ysabel - infant, servants: Antonia with son, Franco, Beatriz, Brianda.
~Spanish Census of 1750, pg. 95

• Records and Notes. ²⁶⁹
Reported Claim No. 104.

Baltazar Baca was born in New Mexico and was, in 1769, a resident of the Plaza of Belen. He asked for a tract of land about three leagues from the pueblo of Laguna, and about a league and a half from the Encinol.

Being "descended from the conquerors of this province," Governor Mendinueta was induced to grant his request and he was placed in possession of the tract known as "San Jose del Encinol" by Don Antonio Sedillo, chief alcalde and war-captain of the pueblo of Laguna. In the act of possession it appears that there was "an outside ranch belonging to an Acoma Indian." He had two sons.

~The Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Vol. I, p. 44

Baltazar next married Maria Rafaela Baca, daughter of Juan Antonio Baca and María Petronila García Jurado, in Sep 1762 in San Augustin de la Isleta, Isleta, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España.³⁴ (Maria Rafaela Baca was born in 1723 in Belén, Valencia, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁸⁷.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
1762, Isleta. Baltasar Baca (37) os San Clemente, widowed of Doña Manuela Rael de Aguilar buried in Isleta church, son of Captain Bernabe Baca and Doña Margarita Mata, both deceased, and Doña Rafaela Baca (30) of San Clemente, widow of Captain Diego de Tórres buried in Isleta church, daughter of Don Juan Baca and Doña Petra García Jurado, both deceased. Dispensed from closed third degree consanguinity, reason being the paucity of equal status in the Kingdon; groom's grandmother and bride's grandfather were brother and sister. Witness: Mateo José Pino, notary; Don Isidro Sánches de Tagle (62), Captain Don Felipe Silva (57), both of Tomé, and Señor Francisco Silva. (60)
DM, pg. 158