Juan Lorenzo de Medina

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Juan Lorenzo de Medina and his wife Antonia Sedañao were among the colonists of 1693. He was 20 years old, the son of José and born in Mexico City, of medium height, with joined eyebrows, large eyes and nose. She was fourteen, the daughter of Pedro and a native of Querétaro, fair and pockmarked, with a scar on the left eyebrow. Her sister, Josefa, was the wife of Nicolás Jirón. It is not known if Juan Lorenzo and Antonia had any children. He was married a second time, to Juana Anaya Almazan, by whom he had during five years of married life up until his death: Juan Francisco, María Antonia, and Margarita Antonia. He died on July 4, 1731.

~ A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 10201-10210.

• Census: List of colonists from México City, on 1 Sep 1693, in Ciudád de México, Nueva España. ²⁸⁷
On 1 September 1693, the aforesaid recieved from the hand of the lord treasurer, don José Urrutia, 300 pesos, which the superior government ordered him to be given as financial assistance in order to supply himself with what is necessary for the trip.

Juan Medina, son of José, native of México City, twenty years old, medium build, beetle-browed, large eyes and nose.

Antonia Sedaño, wife of the aforesaid, daughter of Pedro, native of Querétaro, fourteen years old, sound body, fair, pockmarked, and the scare from a wound on the left eyebrow.

~To The Royal Crown Restored, pp. 276, 248.

• Original Settler: 1695, Santa Cruz de la Cañada, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ¹⁵¹⁰

Juan married Antonia Sedaño, daughter of Pedro Sedaño and María Coronel. (Antonia Sedaño was born in 1679 in Querétaro, Nueva España ²⁵² and died before 1726 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

Juan next married María Juana Anaya Almazán, daughter of Francisco de Anaya Almazán and Felipa Cedillo Rico de Rojas, on 2 Feb 1724 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.¹¹⁰² (María Juana Anaya Almazán was born about 1692 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died on 17 Nov 1736 in Villa de Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ¹⁴⁸²
12 Jan 1724, Santa Fé. Juan Lorenzo de Medina, 46, resident and settler of the villa of Santa Fé, son of José Medina and Catarina Ruíz, natives of México City, widowed by the death of Antonia Sedana who is buried in this church and villa of Santa Fé, with Juana Anaya Almasan, 25, daughter of Sergeant Major, Francisco de Anaia Almasan, deceased and Felipa de Rojas, natives of New Mexico, widowed by the death of Luca Montaño.

Witnesses: Antonio Veytia, 25, more of less, resident of Santa Fé; José de Armijo, 36, resident of Santa Fé; Juan Manuel Chirinos, 50, resident of Santa Fé; Manuel Carrillo, 28, resident of Santa Fé.

The couple were married on 2 Feb 1724, by Fry Juan de la Cruz, with witnesses, Ermenejildo Sisneros and María de Medina.

New Mexico Genealogists, Vol. 49 #3, Sep 2010, New Mexico Roots, Ld, Addendum, Part III, p. 147.