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];
AGI, Patronato, 216, N.2 [Proceso de Nuño de Chávez] [información de parte, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, 1545] [Figueredo, witness] [vecino of San Miguel de Culiacán; about 30 years old; has known Vázquez de Coronado for 6 years] [Figueredo at battle of Cíbola, not at battle of Tiguex, because he had been sent with dispatches to Señora] [Figueredo: plenty of food in Tiguex, does not remember many horses dying or more people than usual sick] [Figueredo refers to the Guaches or Guaces in the far plains] [could sign his name-no signature on copy];
Papeles de Nueva España, “Suma de visitas” [p.47: En Luis de Figueredo: Abucho, Çeutla, Ocohila, en Culiacán - Estas estancias estan juntos en el Valle: estan 10 leguas de la villa y 15 de las minas; tienen 24 casas y en ellas 53 indios; entran con estos otras 3 estançuelas las quales no dan tributo mas de que vienen a hazer con los de Çeutla 1 sementera de maiz; danle algun pescado y naborias para sus ganados]
AGI, México, 1064, L.1\1\, “Informes” = Icaza, Diccionario, 1334 [fol.275r: listed under unmarried or widowers; native of Ebora in Portugal; son of Gonzalo de Figuerõa and Malgarida Cordosa; 21 years in these places; served in Cartagena, Santa Marta, Beneçuxla, Cuba Agua at his own cost with his arms and horse; it will be 8 years in Nueva España; he is hijodalgo; poor; knows no office; no mention of Vázquez de Coronado ];
1550-1560:
AGI, Contratación, 467, N.1, R.2 [1560, bienes de difuntos, Alonso Jiménez, vecino of San Salvador de Bayamo, Cuba; son of Hernan González and Isabel Jiménez, natives of Fuente de Cantos, maestrazgo de Santiago, died in San Salvador; in the name of Antón Martín, Cristóbal Jiménez, Leonor Jiménez, Francisco Jiménez, Alonso Jiménez, Catalina Hernández; taking place in Llerena, Spain; those listed are the children of Francisco Jiménez, deceased from the villa of Puebla in the maestrazgo, who in turn was the son of Alonso Jiménez, deceased in San Salvador; will presented-8 Feb. 1559; Alonso is dead; ordering masses for his children, Alonso Jiménez and Ynés Jiménez and a nephew who died in Campeche; giving 6 yeguas to Catalina Hurtado, wife of Francisco Rodríguez; bequest to his son Hernan Jiménez; me deve Rodrigo Martín vecino que fue del la Havana o Luis de Figueredo como persona que llevo mi poder para los colnear/col-xar(?) del lo procedido de 40 cueras que le invie a la dicha Havana; wishes to endow a capellania in the hermita of Santa María la Hermosa in Fuente de Cantos; he confesses that he owes Luis de Figueredo, vecino of this villa (San Salvador), 19 cueros vacunos]
Other Info:
Hillerkuss, Diccionario Biográfico, vol.2 [1542 is married and has repartimiento de indios; 1548 encomendero of the estancias de Abucho, Ceutla, Ocohila in the Valle de San Lorenzo, 53 tributarios; Comments that it may be Icaza, Diccionario's but he isn't sure, p.2:136];