Hernan Martin Serrano

  General Notes:

"Hernan Marin Serrano gave his age as twenty-five in 1632, when he was known as Hernan Martin "el Mozo," He was involved at this time with a woman of low estate in Santa Fe although his residence was at La Canada. In 1635 he gave his age as twenty-seven, and in 1641 as forty, and in 1642 as over thirty-eight. He declared himself to be fifty-eight in 1664, an encomendero and a captain, and a widower at this time. He also said that he had been born at El Yunque. By 1660 he was living in Santa Fe, while his brother Luis lived in the paternal lands at La Canada." "Hernan's activities at the time of the Indian Rebellion testify to his vigor. He passed muster in 168, in the company of the Salinas-Socorro area, as a captain more than eighty years old. With him was a family of nine -- wife, children, and grandchildren. In the following year he gave his age as seventy-six or seventy-seven, and was ready to serve as a soldier. He was described as a native of New Mexico, married, of good stature, robust, with gray beard and partly gray hair and a film on his left eye. He had become proficient in the Indian tongues, so that he served as an officer and interpreter of the Jumana language during the Dominguez Expedition into Texas in 1683-1684. Born around the year 1604, he would have been close to ninety if he was alive to return with the Reconquest; anyway, his vast and diverse progeny did come back to New Mexico in 1693." (Origins, p.72)

Hernan married Josefa De La Asencion Gonzalez.

Hernan next married Catalina Griego.

Hernan next married Ysabel De Monuera.