Baltasar Reyes Duran y Cháves

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census: Spanish, 1750, Sixth Plaza of Los Cháves, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ⁴⁸²
Balthassar Cháves, español, weaver, 27 years, married to María Romero, expañola, 21 years of age, 4 sons, 4 years, 3 years, 2 years, 1 year, Indian servant, 11 years
~Rio Ariba, pg. 218
~Spanish Census 1750, pg. 39

Baltasar married Maria Gertrudis Romero on 30 Oct 1783 in San Augustine de la Isleta Church, Isleta, Bernilillo, Nueva Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (Maria Gertrudis Romero was born in Los Cháves, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage: ³¹²
Baltasar de los Reyes Durán y Chaves, español of Los Chaves, the son of Francisco Durán y Chaves and María Gertrudis Alvarez del Castillo, deceased, in 1783 married María Gertrudis Romero of the same place, the daughter of Andrés Romero and Antonia Jaramillo, after they were duly dispensed as second and third cousins on both their parents' sides.