Louis Martinez Family of Las Vegas NM, Nov 2020

Enumerated in the 1750 census – NM, Villa de Albuquerque (page 75) Antonio Gurulé (Spanish, 1705, age 45), Antonia Quintana (Spanish, 1705, age 45), Juan Antonio (1733, age 17), Fabiana (1734, age 16), Seraphin (1739, age 11), Elena (1741, age 9), Francisca (1743, age 7), Manuela (1746, age 4); servant: Rosa (Indian, 1710, age 40), Juan (1732, age 18), Juan (1738, age 12), Antonio (1742, age 8), Mathias (1744, age 6), Tomas (1746, age 4); Servant: Bernardina (Indian, 1720, age 30), Maria Antonia (1734, age 16), Ygnacio (1739, age 11), Joseph (1741, age 9), Josepha (1744, age 6), Maria (1747, age 3)

Antonio Gurule Will From New Mexico Genealogist March 2015: Vol. 54, No. 1

In the name of God our Lord and of the most Holy Virgin, Our Lady, Father, Son and Holy Ghost three distinct persons and one God. Know all unto whom this my codicil and last will may come that I, Antonio Gurule, resident of the Villa of Albuquerque, being in bed afflicted with a mortal illness, and in my full mind, memory and understanding believing as I do believe in the mystery of the Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost and in all that which our Holy Mother the Roman Catholic Church believes and acknowledges and acknowledging and believing in the mystery of the incarnation of the Divine Work in the most holy womb of our Lady The Virgin; believing in the institution of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist; in whose mysteries I wish to die and live, believing as I do believe that Jesus Christ, the second person of the most Holy Trinity is the author of the Holy Sacraments, and that he died to save us, one, as well as all the human race, and if by persuasion, access of illness or temptations of the adversary I should say anything contrary to that which I have here acknowledged, from this moment I say that I detest it and that I deny it, and that I may believe only in that which I have [torn and illegible] and His Holy Mysteries and Sacraments; and if God should be pleased to take me to himself, I elect for my advocate the most holy Virgin and Her most Pure Second [unclear meaning] St. Joseph and my advocate Saint Anthony, to appear for me before God and I appoint for my executors Thadeo Garcia, my son and my legal wife, Antonia Quintana, and that the latter is the custodian of my property and the guardian of my children. And if I die I ask that my body be shrouded in the habit of my father St. Frances, and be buried in the most humble spot of my legal parish of Albuquerque, where I ask, near the font of Holy Water. And I commit my soul to God who created it and redeemed it with his most precious blood and my body to the earth of which it was made.

Item - I declare, that I have been married for about 40 years to Antonia Quintana according to the rites of our Holy Mother Church, and during this time we have procreated nine children in legal matrimony: Tomas, Manuela, Luisa, Juan Antonio, Elena, Serafin, Clara Francisca and Manuelita; and eight are married. Tomas and the rest have already received that which was coming to them by inheritance of the lands as well as of the small property which I have held, such having been given 300 varas of agricultural land.

Item - I declare that I contracted matrimony with my said wife who brought me no dowry, and that what was acquired was inherited from my parents.

Item - I declare, and I direct that there be given to the aforesaid bequests, to each, two dollars to each.

Item - I declare as my property a tract of land called Jesus Maria, on which I have some cultivated land and a house containing 6 rooms, and in the cultivated land a ditch for its irrigation; of this ditch cultivated house, land and tract it is understood and it should be understood that I am the legal owner, and my wife, excepting that which is set off for my children, one-half is mine and one-half is my wife’s, and the rest belongs to my children [torn] its benefits.

Item - I declare that it is my last will [torn] with the consent of my children that of the fifth which belongs to one of the property divided between me and my wife, the fifth, there shall be paid the foresaid remains shall be given to Juana Urbina, a girl who was raised in my house, and I ask of the Royal Justices and my executors that this shall be done.

Item - I declare, that the Indian women who were servants of my mother, called Rosa and Elena, are as free as God created them, and in gratitude for their services I leave them a house lot and a tract of land cultivated out for planting, one [measure] of maize which my wife will set out for them. To the two I direct [torn] these shall be done as I order.

Item - I declare as my property one riding saddle, one gun, one bridle, spurs, one shield, one sword, one cloak, one saddle cushion, two mares, one horse and two yoke of oxen with their yokes. To my son Serafin I leave the gun, shield and sword, and to my wife I leave the saddle, bridle, spurs, cloak, saddle cushion and hat and the cart and the 3 horses.

Item - I declare that I owe Marcos Baca 26 sheep. I direct that they be paid [torn] and Juan Sanchez owes me 5 sheep [torn] years. I direct that they be collected.

Item - I declare that I have had of Bernardino de Sena, a resident of the Villa, 200 and [torn] for which there was no writing given. I hold them on honor for sons at their presents, these sheep. I declare that I have sheep of Tomas de Sena, a resident of this town, 160 head on shares of honor of which there is no writing.

Item - I declare that I have 47 breed ewes, yearlings and two year olds and young bulls. I direct that they be delivered to Venture Mestas to whom they belong as I had them on shares, and the flocks the same. And I pray the Alcalde Mayor Don Juan Jaramillo to give to this codicil the force and vigor which the law permits as being my last will and that it be this one and not the one executed in the year ’54 and to the executors and the custodian of the property, my wife, Antonia Quintana, accepted it as this day, the 16th of the month of April, and the year ’61 and I signed it with my own hand. Furthermore, Alejandro Gonzales owes me a sow and a yearling calf which I lent him.

Antonio Gurule

I captain Joseph Jaramillo, Alcalde Mayor and War Captain of the said Villa and its jurisdiction, am acquainted with the testator and I have read the clauses and bequests from the first to the last and I was present and I know his will and I give all the force and vigor required by law [torn] circumstances for its firmness and validity I signed it at this place of Jesus Mares with two assisting witnesses acting delegates [illegible] on the 18 day of April the year 1761 to all of which I certify ad juris. Joseph Jaramillo Wit Baltasar Martines Wit Silvestre Griego