Joaquín de Luna

  Noted events in his life and other information:

• Dates & Events:
Joaquin was a grantee of the San Joaquin de Nacimiento Grant, a Lieutenant Justice of the Jurisdiction of Jemez at Nacimiento, and wrote the grantee's petition to the Governor, Mendinueta, for approval.
San Joaquin del Nacimiento pgs. 50-51

• Dates & Events: ²⁵²
Joaquín de Luna married María Torres, July 17, 1743, with Antonio Baca and wife Mónica de Chaves as witnesses. María must have died soon after, since within the next two years Joaquín began to have children by a new wife, Juana Angela de Salazar.

These children were:
Miguel de San Juan, 10 Sept 1745
Bernardo Paul, 9 Jul 1747
Antonio Xavier 11 May 1751
Tomás

Tomás married Margarita Antonia Sena at Bernalillo in 1773. The eldest swon, Miguel, widowed of Juana Real de Aguilar, married Maria Catalina Valdés of Jémez jurisdiction. Bernardo married Catalina García and resided at Alameda.
ONMF pg. 214-215

• He appeared on the census. ²⁷⁰
9. He is listed in the Belen census of 1750 on page 95 of the Spanish and Mexican Census of 1750 to 1830.
Juachín de Luna; wife, Angela Zalazar; Children: Miguel, Bernardo, María (infant); brother Phelipe de Luna.

He is listed living nextdoor to Diego Torres, as Household # 8 (Diego de Torres is #9).

Joaquín married Juana Angela de Salazar, daughter of Antonio de Salazar and María de Torres, in 1745 in Belén, Valencia, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. (Juana Angela de Salazar was born in 1725 in Belén. Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)