Members of Expedition At-A-Glance

Julián de Sámano

1530-1540:

AGI, Justicia, 259, pieza 2 [visita a don Antonio de Mendoza] [6 Sept 1538, fol. 51r-51v, 4 Jan 1539, fol. 51v-52r, 10 May 1539, fol. 52v, and 19 Sept 1539, fol. 53r list Julian de Sámano as member of Mendoza’s personal guard]

1540-1550:

1540, Feb.: Muster in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 12 [two horses, a corselet, chainmail jacket, two elk hide jackets, head armor, native arms]

Lope de Samaniego

pre-1530:

AGI, Indiferente General, 420, L.10 [fol.124r: October 22, 1525 [nombramiento de Lope de Samaniego...de aqui en adelante le libren 30,000 maravedíes anuales] [cada un año treynta myll maravedies];

Andrés de Salinas

1530-1540:

?Fernández Sotelo, La Primigenia Audiencia Nueva Galicia ["Fe de las encomiendas", cédula, firmada del Licencado de la Torre, refrendada de Andrés de Salinas, escribano, dada in Guadalajara, 11 Dec. 1537, p.289];

?AGI, Justicia, 337B [fol.791v-792r: 1537, escribano de su magestad, in San Miguel?, more than 25 years old (b.<1512), (signed (no signature on copy)]

Gaspar de Saldaña

1530-1540:

AGI, Pasajeros, L.2, E.1264 [June 26, 1535: Gaspar de Saldaña, hijo de Juan de Saldaña y de María de Salcedo, vecinos de Guadalajara, a Nueva España, con el Visorey = Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:4665 [with the viceroy to México, 1535] [father, Juan de Santa María de Salcedo];

Juan de Salamanca

pre-1530:

?Orozco y Berra in Dorantes de Carranza, Sumaría relación, 411 [signed a letter written in 1520, w/Narváez, se portó briosamente en la batalla de Otumba];

?Romero de Solís, Andariegos  [native of Ontiveros, came with Narváez, soldier of Gonzalo de Sandoval, battle of Otumba];

Gaspar de Salamanca

1530-1540:

AGI, Pasajeros, L.2, E.4811 [March 29, 1538, Gaspar de Salamanca, hijo de Martín de Salamanca y de Beatriz de la Torre, vecinos de Melgar] [right year (Villafranca, Francisco de  #4813; highly likely because Salamanca was in same fleet as García Rodríguez w/Albornoz)]

?APSM, “Bautismos de Españoles, 1536-1746” [fol.136v: 4 June 1544, Alonso Gallegos, tailor Catalina García baptized Juan, padrinos were Alonso de la Larera and Salamanca, candlemaker and their wives]

Diego de Salamanca

1530-1540:

?AGGEC, Diego Hurtado, Registro 1 [p. 7-9: 1536 Junio 29; witnesses to a poder of Francisco de Villegas, Diego de Salamanca, Francisco Rojo, vecinos and estantes in the said ciudad, Culiacán?; also witness to a poder of Juan de Villalba, June 13, 1536];

?AGI, Justicia, 337A [fol.67v: 1537, witness of the ciudad (Culiacán?) states that he saw that Alonso López, Francisco Rojo and Diego de Salamanca were in charge at the mines]

1540-1550:

Hernandarias de Saavedra

pre-1530:

Razo Zaragoza, 4 Cronicas de la Conquista de Nueva Galicia [#V, p.193: Guzmán went with Saavedra to ask the Audiencia to allow him to govern any lands he might conquer]

1530-1540:

AMS, Sección 1, Carpeta 124, Document 106 [fol. 112v-image 115: in the area called Ribera Caçador- Juan García-criado of Hernandarias de Saavedra]

Marcos Ruiz de Rojas

1530-1540:

AGI, Justicia, 259, pieza 2 [visita a don Antonio de Mendoza; [horseman:10 May 1539, fol. 52v, 19 Sept 1539, fol. 53r,11 Jan 1540, fol. 53v; 11 March 1542, fol. 57r lists Marcos Ruíz de Rojas as de a caballo in Mendoza’s personal guard];

AGI, Justicia, 258, pieza 1, “Relación de los salarios” [fol. 799r: Nov. 1539, a marcos rRuiz...Lxx pesos]

1540-1550: