Juan Fernández Verdejo

References-Documentary

1540-1550:

AGI, Justicia, 270, Pieza 4, Residencia a Gerónimo de Medina, 1546 [Juan Fernández Verdejo, Nov. 1540, vouches for witness Gonzalo Cerezo, can sign his name];

AGI, Justicia, 258, pieza 1, Relacion de los salarios...que por mandamyentos del...visorrey...se han mandado pagar y han librado, fol. 819v [a Johan Fernández verdejo...May 23, 1545...cxx pesos];

AGI, Justicia, 268, N.1 / December 18, 1546 [visita hecha a Gonzalo Cerezo, alguacil mayor de la audiencia] [quetion 2 of interrogatorio: six years before don García López resigned the office of alguacil mayor “yendo a la guerra de çibola”] [de oficio witness, Juan Fernández Verdejo, vecino de México, natural de Cuema o Cuerna de Guese o Guete; Cuenca de Guete (Huete is one of the jurisdictions in Cuenca province); more than 30 years old, signed his name] [has been in Nueva España about 17 years] [knew García López de Cárdenas all the time he was in New Spain] [Fernández Verdejo served as teniente de alguacil under Cerezo];

AGI, Justicia, 276, N. 3, Cargos contra Juan Fernández Verdejo del tiempo que fue carcelero, 1546 [only cargos and descargos]

1550-1560:

Testimony of Juan Bermejo and of Vázquez de Coronado’s Purchasing Agent, Juan Fernández Verdejo in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 11 [1552, Juan Fernández Verdejo, vecino of Compostela, more than 35 years old, is de parte witness in Compostela; he could sign his name]

Surname
Fernández Verdejo
Brief Biography

Juan Fernández Verdejo testified in 1552 that he acted as Vázquez de Coronado's purchasing agent for Expedition and spent over 30,000 pesos in gold in the process. Juan was a native of Huete (Cuenca province in Spain) and had been in Nueva España since about 1530.