María de Hinojos

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ²⁴⁸
During the testimony of 85 year-old Juan Candelaria recorded in 1775 during the prenuptial investigation of Vicente Durán y Chaves and María Concepcion Aragón [AASF, Roll 63, Diligencias Matrimoniales, fr. 464], Juan declared that he knew Josefa de Hinojos (daughter of María Hinojos & Bartolomé de Salazar, an Alcalde Mayor of the Zuñi and Moqui jurisdiction; & Granddaughter of a Zuni woman & Miguel de Hinojos) wife of Diego Montoya, and continued to state that Josefa de Hinojos was a "Collota desendiente del Pueblo de Suñi, hermano de un yndio llamada ventura," ("Coyota, descendant of the Pueblo of Zuñi, sister of an Indian named Ventura"). Josefa de Hinojos was the great-great Grandmother of José Vicente Durán y Chavez.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 316

María married Bartolomé de Salazar, son of Francisco de Salazar Hachero and Unknown. (Bartolomé de Salazar was born about 1630 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²³⁹ and died in 1673 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²³⁹.)