Members of Expedition At-A-Glance

Cristóbal Caballero

1530-1540:

?AGI, Pasajeros, L.2, E.5515 = Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:12717 [Cristóbal Caballero, son of Alonso Caballero and Isabel González, vecino of Zamora, October 17, 1538, came to New Spain with Pedro de Alvarado (we like the Alvarado connection and this is the only Cristóbal Caballero in Boyd-Bowman)]

1540-1550:

1540, Feb: Muster in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 12 [2 horses, several breastplates, helmet, beaver, native arms]

Juan de Bustamante

pre 1530:

?AGI, Pasajeros, L.1, E.3864 [Oct. 8, 1528, the people who accompanied García de Lerma, governor of Santa Marta, Venezuela: Juan de Bustamante];

1530-1540:

?Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:7778 = AGI, Pasajeros, L.2, E.485 [Juan de Bustamante, son of Juan de Bustamante y de Juana Gutiérrez de Cruceño, vecinos of Santander, a Veragua, with Felipe Gutiérrez, April 2, 1535] (this may have been w/Pascual and Madrid)]

1540-1550:

Jaco (Jacobo) de Brujas

pre 1530:

1528: AGI, Indiferente General, 421, L.13 [fol.94r-v: 1528-4-22 Madrid, Real Cédula a Leonardo Rotalot, natural de Amberes, Giraldo de Beten, natural de Bravante, Aliamen de Lavalle, natural de Nivel en Bravante, Jacobo de Brujas en Flandes, maestre Felipe, natural de Lilla, en Flandes y Dirat, natural de Bruselas en Bravante, dándoles licencia para poder pasar a Indias a tratar y mercadear en perlas y piedras preciosas, como lo hacen los naturales de estos reinos de España]

Hernando Botello

1530-1540

AGI, Pasajeros, L.2, E.4629 [Hernando Botello, son of Gutiérre de Raodona and Mari Gómez de Boyçes, vecinos of las Garrovillas, March 11,1538]

1540-1550

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

González-Leal, Relación Secreta  [p. 92-95: Vecinos de la provincía de Culiacán: Hernando Botello, vecino, no es casado ni tiene indios]

Pero Boo

1530-1540

?ARChV, Sala de Hijosdalgo, Caja 468,8 [1539, same request]

?AGI, Justicia, 269, Pieza 5 [Visita a Luis Marín, 1545, witness in December 1539 is Pero Bon, is about 30 years old, testifies about a fight in the Ciudad de México at the plaza mayor, can sign his name-no signature on copy, also testifying are a Juan Jiménez and a maestre Juan, cirujano (could this be Pero Boo?)]

1540-1550:

Tomás Blaque

1530-1540:

AGI, Indiferente General, 1382A, [in 1533 a Tomás Inglés is granted license to take 2 black slaves (one man and one woman) to the Indies for his personal service "yendo vos en persona a poblar e conquistar las dichas indias];

AGI, Justicia, 270, Pieza 4 September 1539: witness is Tomás Blaque, hosier, estante in México, could sign his name]

Juan de Beteta

1530-1540

AGI, Justicia, 1021, N.2, pieza 5, “Probanza de don García López de Cárdenas” [1539 arrived in New Spain]

1540-1550

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

González-Leal, Relación Secreta  [pp. 73-78: long list of persons of =mixed residence: includes a Juan de Beteta, minero]

Cristóbal Bertao

1540-1550:

AGI, México 1064, L.1\1\, “Informes,” fol.124 = Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:13148 = Icaza, Diccionario, #305 [vecino of Mexico City, native of La Debornuel/Bernuel, which is in the province of Ruan [Rouen: Verneuil?-sur-Seine, Berneval?]; son of Luis Bertao and Malgarida Bertao; 10 years in Nueva Esapña; went to Cíbola; married with a daughter of Cristóbal Val López and has 2 children (sons probably; no encomienda]