BID Number
17365
Occupation
1540 Feb 22: CAMPOSTELA, NUEVA GALICIA/SOLDIER (ONMUSTER OF CORONADO'S EXPEDITION)
1542 Apr: QUIVIRA (KANSAS)/(WITH FR. JUAN DE PADILLA ATHIS DEATH)
1540: MEXICO CITY/(RETURNED)
Ethnicity
PORTUGUESE (SPANISH-PORTUGUESE)
Notes
1542 : (APR)ACCOMPANIED PADILLA ON HIS EXCURSION TO QUIVIRA. A GARDENER BY PROFESSION; OWNED THREE HORSES AND WEAPONS; WAS ENSLAVED FOR A 10 MONTH PERIOD, ESCAPED AND CROSSED OKLAHOMA, TEXAS, THE RIO GRANDE, COAHUILA, NUEVO LEON, AND TO TAMAULIPAS. SOURCES STATE HE ARRIVED IN MEXICO CITY WITHIN EITHER ONE FIVE AND OR NINE YEAR PERIOD. CONSIDERED A MAN OF SOME WEALTH.
Source
BANCROFT
Sources
BANCROFT: HISTORY OF ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO (1962) HAMMOND AND REY: NARRATIVES OF THE CORONADO EXPEDITION (1940) BOLTON: CORONADO, KNIGHT OF PUEBLOS AND PLAINS (1949) CHAVEZ: CORONADO'S FRIARS (1968)
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