Antonio Jorge De Vera

  General Notes:

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE: Declared he was forty years old in 1694. DM, Loc. cit.

!MG/TITLE/DEATH:AGE 42-1694;NM ROOTS;978.9 D2CA;PG 892,965,891 always single and free;N.of,El alamo 5 leagues from Santa Fe;Capt. of the Presidio

MG WIT:Luis Granillo/Magdalena Losada

Antonio Jorge, the only adult male of this name in the Revolt lists, escaped the Indian massacre with a family consisting of his mother and two sisters. He was descirbed in 1681 as a bachelor twenty or thirty years old, a native of New Mexico, having a fair complexion, good physique, and a broad face. A captain by 1692, he took part in the Vargas Expedition of that year; he accompanied the Royal Standard-Bearer, Don Fernand D. Y Chaves, in leading the ceremonial parade in Conquest of Santa Fe. A Sargento Mayor in 1694, Antonio married Catalina De Espinola in Santa Fe on December 28;here he gave his parents' names as Antonio Jorge De Vera and Gertrudis Baca, both natives of New Mexico and deceased; he declared that he was fory years old, single so far, and a native of El Almao, five leagues from Santa Fe. The following year less than eight months after the he was dead. From a subsequent marriage document of his widow we know that he burried at Santa Cruz. (origins pg 51)

Antonio married Catarina Espinola De Las Heras Or Dona on 28 Dec 1694 in Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM. (Catarina Espinola De Las Heras Or Dona was born in 1680 in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico.)