Manuel Baca

  General Notes:

Described in 1681 as twenty-five years of age, married, with a good, thick-set build, a ruddy face, thick beard, and wavy hair. (Origins, p.10)

Manuel returned with the Reconquest to Santa Fe in 1693 with his wife, Maria de Salazar, and a growing family. Soon after, he established himself at Bernalillo on lands that had belonged to his father, Cristobal Baca. There in 1699, he gave his age as forty, and there also a post-Reconquest daughter was born in 1702. In 1716, he gathered forty Queres Indians for the Moqui Campaign and also led the Albuquerque contingent. The Indians of the three Queres Pueblos of Cochiti, Santo Domingo, and San Felipe complained more than once of mistreatment by him and his sons; for this cause he was deprived of the Alcaldia of Cochiti in 1718 and sentenced to go on the next two forays aginst infidel Indians. Both he and his wife were dead by 1727. (Origins, p.141)

Manuel married Maria De Salazar, daughter of Bartolome De Salazar and Maria De Hinojos.