Cristobal Vaca

   Ancestral File Number: 1026.

  General Notes:

"Christobal Baca (Vaca) was one of the captains who came to reinforce the Onate colony in 1600. He was the son of Juan de Vaca, born in Mexico City, of good stature, dark complexioned, well-featured, and thirty three years of age. He brought his wife, three grown daughters, and a small son...

Baca's family was among the few who remained at San Gabriel when the rest of the colonists deserted; Cristobal himself was very critical of some friars who led the desertion. In 1603 he commanded the escort which broght four new Franciscans from Mexico City. In 1613 he was acting as Syndic for the friars. After this he disappears from the records, but his descendants begin to fill the annals of New Mexico." (Origins, p.9-10)

Cristobal married Ana Ortiz, daughter of Francisco Pacheco and Juana de-la-Cueva-Toledo Colon, about 1584 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Ana Ortiz was born in Mexico City, Mexico ²⁴.)