Andrés de Salinas

Brief Biography

Andrés de Salinas, a native of Salinas de Rosío (Burgos province), was the son of Alonso Sanz de Salinas and María Alonso de Abarrça/Abariça. Andrés stated in 1547 that he and his son went on the Expedition. It is odd that his son is listed on the 1540 muster, but he is not. Perhaps an error or omission on the part of the scribe. Given the fact that he stated having taken horses, he is listed as a horseman. Also, it is quite possible that the few documentary records pertaining to an Andrés de Salinas, are in fact attributable to the expeditionary.

Gender
Male
Country of Origin
Spain
Place of Birth (City/Town)
Salinas de Rosío
Place of Birth (modern province/state/region)
Burgos
Died on the Expedition?
No
Last Known Location
Mexico City
Position on Expedition
Horseman
Within Viceroy Mendoza's Sphere
No
Residence After Expedition
Mexico City
Married
Yes
Name of Spouse
wife in Spain
Name of Children
2 son and 2 daughters
Relatives
father: Alonso Sanz de Salinas; mother: María Alonso de Abarrça/Abariça
References-Documentary

1530-1540:

?Fernández Sotelo, La Primigenia Audiencia Nueva Galicia ["Fe de las encomiendas", cédula, firmada del Licencado de la Torre, refrendada de Andrés de Salinas, escribano, dada in Guadalajara, 11 Dec. 1537, p.289];

?AGI, Justicia, 337B [fol.791v-792r: 1537, escribano de su magestad, in San Miguel?, more than 25 years old (b.<1512), (signed (no signature on copy)]

?AGN, Instituciones Coloniales, GD61, Inquisición, vol.42, exp.6, 1536 [fol.48: Mexico, case against Fulano Salinas, lieutenant of the alguacil; 9 Oct. 1536, Mexico, laid hands on the priest; was suppose to bring demascio to the church];

?Millares Carlo y Montecón, Indice y extractos, II:2527 [fols. 697r and 697v: March 9, 1538, Andrés de Salinas and Alonso de Canseco, vecinos de México, are albaceas and testamentarios for Pedro Canseco; they receive an accounting from the mercader Juan López de Herrera [21 persons between Salinas's son and Canseco on muster]

1540-1550:

AGI, México, 1064, L.1\1, “Informes” [fol.269r] = Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:2562 = Icaza, Diccionario, #1290 [listed under solteros and widowers; native of Salinas; son of Alonso Sanz de Salinas and María Alonso de Abarrça/Abariça; 11 years in Nueva España; married in Burgos; has 2 sons and 2 daughters; the oldest came with him to Cíbola; spent more than 1000 pesos on horses, armas and other equipment; wants to send for his household, wife, and children and remain in this land];

Pereda López, emigracion burgalesa  [p.292, native of Salinas de Bosio]

?AGN, Instituciones Coloniales, GD72, Real Audiencia, Mercedes, vol.2, exp. 150, 1543 [fol. 42: In March 1543, a license is granted to Andrés de Salinas to understaff the mines [of Sultepeque] for three months];

?AGN, Instituciones Coloniales, GD72, Real Audiencia, Mercedes, vol.2, exp. 374, 1543 [fol. 155r: September 1543: Andrés de Salinas requests and is granted authority to vacate the same mines (at Sultepeque and Zacualpa) for another three months]

?AHMP, Actas, Vol. 5, Document 278, Asunto 3 [fol.269r: August 30, 1548, Merced de un solar a Diego de Baeza, escribano, que límita con solar de Lope Caballero, sastre, y con solar de Rodrigo Ladillo y de Salinas]

?AGI, Contratación, 197, N.21, R.19 [1546, Pánuco, "Relación  de los pesos de oro que el Dr. Castañeda enbio cobrado de Pánuco bienes de Francisco de Villegas y otros difuntos;" document is prepared in the ciudad de México; Antonio de Villadiego, vecino of Pánuco reported in 1546 in Mexico City, that Dr. Castañeda asked him to deliver gold, money and letters concerning the bienes difuntos in Pánuco that the Dr. had collected from doña Catalina de Mexía, widow of Francisco Barrón  [nothing in AGI search], now wife of Pedro de Trejo; this is the report Mexía gave him; in Santiago de los Valles, 20 Abril 1546, reported by Gonzalo Bernaldo; on 20 Abril Mexía is ordered to deliver whatever gold, money and letters she has regarding the bienes de difuntos of Francisco de Villegas, Juan Rodríguez, and anyone else; the juez de residencia informs Tello de Sandoval that there are many cases of bienes de difuntos from Santiago and the provincia; 28 May 1545 Tello de Sandoval demands that those handling these bienes report in person to him in Mexico City; 22 June 1545, Santistevan, del puerto de la provincia de Pánuco, it was publicly proclaimed that information regarding the bienes de difuntos will be collected and any frauds or negligence corrected; 1 Oct 1545, that Mexía, as wife of Francisco Barrón and vecina of Santistevan must produce info and pay 1000 pesos that belong to the estate of Francisco Villegas, in Compostela and Santisteban; Mexía reports she is doing the best  she can, since she is only the wife, and that her husband also dealt with Tonala and Jalisco; all the items in a chest she delivers, the cofre es de flandes de dos palmos mas o menos; items seem to pertain to Villegas, Francisco Guillén, francés (whose albacea was Juan Rodríguez who is evidently dead), but also IOUs, wills and cartas de pago; gold de Jalisco; she reports also bienes from Francisco Guillén Francés; her late husband was the albacea for Francisco Guillén and delivers an inventory of Guillén's effects; has an inventory taken in Compostela; among her late husband's papers she has 2 conocimientos against Cristóbal de Oñate; un mandamiento de Francisco Vázquez Coronado contra Francisco de Villegas de contia de 200+ pesos de oro apedimiento de Francisco Pilo acesonario de Pedro de Sosa; carta de pago de Hernando Bermejo-7 tomines; conocimiento y carta de pago de Andrés de Salinas; una carta from Juan Pastor; mandamiento contra Melchior Díaz; there are 2 inventories of goods of Francisco de Villegas: one in Santistevan (more pages) and the other in Compostela; a poder from Diego Rodríguez to a Pero Martín; 2 conocimientos from Juan Pérez; carta de pago from Miguel Sánchez; conocimiento from Juan Gallego, escribano; carta de pago from Lope de Samaniego;  carta de pago from Juan Gallegos; conocimiento contra Francisco Cornejo con un poder; 2 cartas de pago and a poder from an Alonso Martín; quenta de Francisco Cornejo; desembargo y mando de Cristóbal de Oñate; poder from Juan Rodríguez para el Francés [probably meaning Guillén]; from Juan Rodríguez 2 petitions, a letter; another letter from Juan Ruíz; conocimiento from Pedro de Najara; carta from Francisco Pilo; a conocimiento from Maese Miguel; an embargo by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado against the goods of Francisco de Villegas; the delivery was witnessed and signed by Juan de Gallegos in Santisteban; 11 Feb 1547 Mexía's husband makes a probanza in Mexico City regarding the bienes de difuntos of Francisco de Villegas, Francisco Guillén, Francés and Juan Rodríguez, all deceased and her deceased 1st husband; Barrón lived in Santiago de los Valles; witnesses included: Francisco de Godoy, 30+, native of Ubeda, vecino of Mexico City, saw Barrón collect the bienes of Guillén in Nueva Galicia, signed (no signature); February 1547 statement of Pedro de Trexo, current husband of Catalina Mexía"por razón de las costas e gastos e menoscabos de la hacienda del dicho Francisco Barrón que por su ausencia hubo y por su salario que de derecho le viene se retuvieron en ???? poder dozientos pesos de oro que corre para ayuda a lo dicho aunque es mucho mas lo que gasto e perdio en la dicha jornada [to travel from México to Nueva Galicia]" he presents an interrogatorio in which the first question asks if the witnesses are aware that Francisco Barrón collected bienes de difuntos in Nueva Galicia (Guadalajara y Compostela); he resided in Santiago de los Valles (Oxitipán) "que esta desta ciudad [México] ochenta leguas and "partió y fue con [los recaudos y escrituras] a la dicha Nueva Galicia;" he spent more than six months there collecting bienes; Francisco Guillén had gone to Nueva Galicia to collect bienes, but "estar la tierra alzada y de guerra...murió el dicho Francisco Guillén y dexo por su albacea a Francisco Barrón;"]

Relatives?: ?AHAG, Gobierno, Secretaria, Fabrica General de la Diocesis, 1584-1620, Caja 1 [1594-Hernando de Salinas, cura in Los Lagos and minas de Las Virgenes, descendant?]