Francisco Xavier de Sotomayor

  General Notes:

Herencia, July 1995 p.30

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: El Presidio del Gallo, Nueva Viscaya, Nueva España, 8 Aug 1704. ²⁵²

• Dates & Events, 1680. ²⁵²
Escaped to El Paso in 1680 at the time of the Pueblo Revolt. He was a widower with a child of three or four years, and was described as a captain born in New Mexico, twenty-five years, having a good physique, front teeth missing, very little hair and a toe missing from the left foot. In departing for New Spain, he left his child with relatives who later brought her back to New Mexico with the Reconquest. She was Josefa Xavier, "orphan and poor,' wo married Lus Garcia at Bernailillo in August 1704. Her mother was Juana Francisca Baca, her father at this date was stationed at the Presidio del Gallo in Nueva Vizcaya.
ONMF pg. 113

Francisco married Juana Francisca "la vieja" Baca, daughter of Cristóbal Baca and Ana Moreno de Lara Trujillo. (Juana Francisca "la vieja" Baca was born about 1662 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died before 1718 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)