Members of Expedition At-A-Glance

Cristóbal de Quesada

1530-1540:

AGI, Pasajeros, L.2, E.165 = Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:8186 = Icaza, Diccionario, #1298 [March 15, 1535, Quesada son of Juan de Aldana and Beatriz de Baena, native of Carmona, with his wife, Marina de Robles, to New Spain]

1540-1550:

1540, Feb: Muster in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 12 [3 horses, chain mail vest, native arms]

Luis de Quijada

1530-1540:

?AGGEC, Diego Hurtado, Registro 1 [p. 22-23: 1536 July 26; Jorge Báez, vecino de los Ángeles, estante in the pueblo of Sayula, sold a silver mine on the outskirts of Zacatlan for 80 pesos to Francisco de Villegas; received in the pueblo of Aguacatlan, the encomienda of Villegas in the presence of Luis Quexada, Pedro Niño and Diego de Villegas. Estantes (no signatures on copy)]

Francisco de Pobares

1530-1540:

AGI, Pasajeros, L.2, E.2673 [May 17, 1536, Pobares, son of Francisco de Pobares and Quíteria de Vera, citizens of Sabiote [Jaén], to New Spain]

1540-1550:

1540, Feb: Muster in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 12 [3 horses, elk hide jacket, chain mail vest, native arms];

Castañeda in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 28 [Pobares, hidalgo, died];

Juan de Plasencia

1530-1540:

AGN, Instituciones Coloniales, GD61, Inquisición, vol.14, exp.21, 1537 [fol.164: case against Juan de Plasencia for saying he didn't believe in God, 17 April 1537; Mexico, married, promises not to commit any more blasphemies, signature copied, penalty: go to mass con una candela en la mano y descubierta la cabeca hincado de rodillas rezando un rozario, 20 pesos]

1540-1550:

Juan Pérez de Vergara

1530-1540:

Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:4979 = ?Millares Carlo y Montecón, Indice y extractos, II:1978 [Oct. 10, 1536], owes money] [Vergara:Guipúzcoa];

Millares Carlo y Montecón, Indice y extractos, I:1974 [fols. 329r y v: October 9, 1536, Poder general granted by Juan Pérez de Vergara, estante en México, to Juan de Baeza];

Melchior Pérez [de la Torre]

1540-1550:

1540, Feb: Muster in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 12 [4 horses, chainmail jacket, elk hide jacket, native arms, Vázquez de Coronado's company]

“Disposal of the Juan Jiménez Estate,” in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 27 [Coafor, March 18, 1542, Pérez serves as witness]  

Garmendia Leal, Fundadores [p.9: Listed in the Padrón de Tetlán, 1541];

Antón Pérez Buscavida

1540-1550:

“Disposal of the Juan Jiménez Estate,” in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 27 [Coafor, February 25, 1542, Pérez Buscavida serves as witness and gives testimony about Jiménez’s death and last wishes] [keeping watch one night in February when called to witness the naming of albaceas] [not in pueblo where Vázquez de Coronado was]

Juan Pérez

pre-1530:

?Millares Carlo y Montecón, Indice y extractos, I:1339 [May 12, 1528, vecino of Zacatula, poder to Juan de Cartagena to collect tribute from the natives of La Higuera and Hacatunala], 1574 [Sept 25, 1528, compadre of Pedro López de Ronda, who is the father of Francisco López];

1530-1540:

?Porras Muñoz, Personas y Lugares [p.81:blasphemer, Oct. 4, 1536, fined 20 pesos de minas, which would be applied toward the purchase of some houses for the Inquisition jail];