Asencio Arechuleta

  General Notes:

"Asencio de Arechuleta was one of the Onate soldiers who came in 1598. He was twenty-six years old, the son of Juan de Arechuleta and a native of Eibar in Guipuzcoa. He is described as having a medium build, black beard, and a slight wound on the forehead. At the famous battle of Acoma, January 23, 1599, he accidentally shot his bosom partner-in-arms, Lorenzo Salado de Ribadeneira. In 1603 he escorted four friars from Mexico City to San Gabriel. During Governor Peralta's term, 1610-1614, he acted as an ecclesiastical notary and was thus involved in many a fracas which resulted in a strong anti-Peralta faction composed of Archuleta's relatives, "of whom there were many." Asencios was dead by 1626, when he was cited as living three or four years previously, and when he was the Syndic of the Franciscans." (Origins, p.6.)

Asencio married Ana Perez De Bustillo, daughter of Juan Perez De Bustillo and Maria De La Cruz. (Ana Perez De Bustillo was born about 1581 in Mexico ⁷⁶.)