Tom McCabe's Genealogy 2025

Copy of a muster roll dated February 10, 1597, Valle de San Bartolomé, AGI, Sevilla, México, 25, N.22, B.3, f. 54v. This part of the record reads, “Sargentos/ Hernan mrn sargento del cappn Juo Ruiz natural de la ciud de çacatecas hijo de hernan mrn serrano con armas entero de su pa [persona]/ y cavo [cavallo] y lleva su muger y familia.”

“Sergeants: Hernán Martín, sergeant of Captain Juan Ruiz, native of the City of Zacatecas, son of Hernán Martín Serrano, with complete arms for his person and horse,and he is bringing his wife and family.”

There is no indication from the records of the period as to the identity of those individuals who constituted Hernán’s “familia.”