Members of Expedition At-A-Glance

Antonio Mesa

1530-1540:

?AGI, Pasajeros, L.2, E.5095 = Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:3562 [September 17, 1538, Antonio de Mesa, hijo de Juan Ruíz Bracho y de Magdalena Rodríguez, vecino de Almadén de los Azogues, a Nueva España]

1540-1550:

Castañeda in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 28  [fol. 143v: wounded, probably lost an arm from poison, near Señora]

Diego de Medina

1530-1540:

?AGI, Pasajeros, L.2, E.5023 = Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:11742 [son of Diego de Medina and Leonor de Zamora, vecino of Medina del Campo, to México Aug 1538 (2 people separate him from Pedro Ramos and both are with Melgosa)

1540-1550:

1540, Feb: Muster in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 12 [sword, round shield, crossbow, native arms, footman with Melgosa]

1550-1560:

Alonso de Medina

pre-1530:

?Porras Muñoz, El Gobierno de la Ciudad de México [p.127: 1524, Alonso de Medina and Diego de Soto put in charge of the festivities celebrating Spain’s victory over France]

1530-1540:

?AMS, Sección 1, Carpeta 124, Document 106 [fol. 91r: lives in the collación of San Lorenzo, Calle Primera, escribano del fisco];

Cristóbal de Mayorga

pre-1530:

Garmendia Leal, Fundadores [p.102: soldados de Nuño de Guzmán, 1529, listed among the jinetes y peones]

1530-1540:

AGI, Justicia, 258, pieza 1, “Relación de los salarios” [fol. 800r; fol. 823v:a Cristóval de mayorga...Lx pesos]   

1540-1550:  

1540, Feb: Muster in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 12 [2 horses, elk hide jacket, native arms]

Pedro Mayoral

1540-1550:

1540, Feb: Muster in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 12 [4 horses, chainmail jacket with its skirts, beaver, sallet, native arms, w/Guevara]

Other Info:  

?AGI, Pasajeros, L.2, E.2132 [August 18, 1535, Pedro Márquez, son of Pedro Sánchez de Mayoral and Juana Martín, citizen of Orehuela, to New Spain]