Juan Gonzales Bas

  General Notes:

"Juan Gonzalez Bas, late in 1731 when he was Alcalde Mayor of Albuquerque, boasting that he had returned at the time of the Reconquest with his family, to re-occupy the house where he had been born. He gave his parents' names as Juan Gonzalez Bas and Nicolasa Zaldivar Jorge. His two brothers were already dead; Captain Sebastian Gonzalez Bas, also deceased, was his uncle. By 1710 he was already a Captain and residing in Bernalillo, when he gave his age as forty. In 1712 he was appointed Alcalde Mayor of Albuquerque, which so angered ol Don Fernando Duran y Chavez that the latter assaulted Juan, calling him a 'perro yndio Griego,' an epithet he had used on Juan's father without being contradicted. Whatever don Fernando's right in acting so rudely, the incident shows that Gonzlaez belonged to the old 'Bernal-Griego' clan. Juan prospered, nevertheless, both as an official and landholder in the Rio Abajo, until his death at Alameda on November 14, 1743; his widow, Maria Lopez del Castillo, survived him. He had been a member of the Conraternity of La Conquistadora, whose flocks of sheep were in his care in 1700. His name in on El Morro with those of two contemporaries, Salvador Holguin and Jose Naranjo." (Origins, p.189)

Juan married Maria Micaela Lopez Del Castillo, daughter of Pedro Lopez Del Castillo and Maria De Ortega, about 1695 in New Mexico.⁹⁴