Members of Expedition At-A-Glance

Juan Franco de Mentre

pre 1530:

?Millares Carlo y Montecón, Indice y extractos, I:1286 [April 27, 1528, Juan Franco, corredor (agent), vecino of Mexico City, owes Francisco Diáz money] 

?Millares Carlo y Montecón, Indice y extractos, I:1344 [May 14, 1528, Juan Franco, corredor, owes Francisco Diáz money]

1530-1540:

Juan Fioz

1530-1540:

AGI, Justicia, 276, N. 2 [fol.373v: witness in México in August 1539 is Juan de Fioz, trumpeter, was a prisoner in the jail in México City, about 25 years old, can sign his name];

Luis de Figueredo

1540-1550:

1540, Feb: Muster in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 12 [Luis de Pigredo, 1 horse, native arms]

González-Leal, Relación Secreta  [p. 73-78: long list of persons of mixed residence: includes a Luis de Figueredo; pp. 92-95: Vecinos de la provincía de Culiacán: Luis de Figueredo, vecino, married, has Indians];

Domingo Fernández

1530-1540:

?Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:1594

?Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:1796 [to Florida]

?AGI, Pasajeros, L.3, E52 = Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:2112  son of Juan Romero and María González, vecino of Zafra, to México Jan. 31, 1539)

?AGI, Pasajeros, L.13, E.289 = Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:13463 [portugues, in México 1535, wife in Spain]

Gerónimo de Estrada

1530-1540:

AGI, Pasajeros, L.2, E.4351 = Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:6917 [son of Antonio Pastor and Isabel de Estrada, vecinos of Dueñas (Palencia), Feb. 25, 1538]

1540-1550:

1540, Feb: Muster in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 12 [2 horses, coat of mail, elk hide jacket, native arms, in Gutiérrez de la Caballería's company]

AGI, Justicia, 269, Pieza 4 [1545, witness in the lawsuit of Alonso de Trujillo]

Martín de Estepa

1540-1550:

1540, Feb: Muster in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 12 [horse, native arms, in the company of Vázquez de Coronado]

AGI, Justicia, 267, N.3, “Proceso de Francisco Vázquez” [witness Alonso Sánchez: Martín de Estepa, man-at-arms, set dogs on Indians] = AGI, Justicia, 1021, pieza 4]

Alonso Esteban de Mérida

1540-1550:

1540, Feb: Muster in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 12 [horse, native arms]

1550-1560:

?Actas de Cabildo, Tomo III, Book 6 [p.153: 10 Dec. 1554-Alonso Esteban, vecino granted un pedazo de solar next to the houses that he has bought in the barrio of San Hipolito, 1/4 a solar];

Francisco de Espinosa

pre 1530:

?Mier y Terán Rocha, La primera traza, II:529: [a Francisco de Espinosa received the grant from the cabildo of México of a solar in January 1527 within the traza next to Antón Bravo and near Pedro de Nájera [the least likely, because no known connection to any members]

1530-1540:

?AGI, Pasajeros, L.2, E.5294 [Oct. 9, 1538, son of Juan de Espinosa and Ana de Vera, in the armada of Pedro de Alvarado]

Luis de Escobedo

1530-1540:

Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:10544 =  AGI, Pasajeros, L.2, E.3797 [son of Diego de Escobedo and doña María de Cascanti, vecinos of Medinaceli (Soria), to México July 1537 and not to Plata] (only 1 entry away from fellow expeditionary Cobasrrubias)]

AGI, Justicia, 269, Pieza 5, “Visita a Luis Marín, 1545” [witness in September 1539 is a Luis de Escobedo, estante in México, can sign his name];