Alonso Baca

   Ancestral File Number: 75-12.

  General Notes:

Alonso Baca, a contemporary of Antonio, was to all appearances Antonio's older brother. As a young captain, he led a small exploratory expedition three hundred leagues into the eastern plains in 1634. He gave his age as 55 in 1644, but must have been a year or two younger. In the middle of the century, he uncovered a serious Indian plot. He was one of fourteen conspirators ordered executed by Governor Pacheco in 1643 (when Antonio died), but all these fourteen escaped death: Alonso was still living as his place in the Rio Abajo district as late as 1662. Nothing more is known about him, not even his wife's name. Cristobal Baca mentione in 1663 as sorbrino carnal of Antonio Baca was apparently his son. (Origins pg 10)