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Capitán Pedro SANCHRZ de CHAVEZAge: 93 years15401633

Name
Capitán Pedro SANCHRZ de CHAVEZ
Name prefix
Capitán
Given names
Pedro
Surname
SANCHRZ de CHAVEZ
Also known as
Pedro Saes
Note: I have designated Pedro Sanchez (Pedro Saes) de
Birth 1540
Note: Page 66 of Poblar la Frontera by Chantal Cramaussel,
MarriageMaria RODRIGUEZView this family
1570 (Age 30 years)

History
Early History of Pedro Sanchez de Chavez
1581 (Age 41 years)

Event
Chamuscado Expedition to New Mexico
1581 (Age 41 years)
Note: Pedro Sanchez (Saenz) was one of 8 soldiers from the Santa Barbara area of Nueva Vizcaya who signed …
Property
Mine
1611 (Age 71 years)
Note: Pedro Sanchez mined an abandoned a mineral vein on a hill overlooking Parral that 20 years later be…
Death 1633 (Age 93 years)
Note: There is a document from 1633 in which María Rodríguez referred to herself as "muger legitima que fue de Pedro Saez de Chaves, difunto" ("legitimate wife of Pedro Sáez de Cháves, deceased") [AHP, Roll 1633A, fr. 634]. She referenced the last will and testament of her husband, indicating he was dead by 1633.
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Marriage: 1570
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Birth

Page 66 of Poblar la Frontera by Chantal Cramaussel,

        Pedro Sánchez de Chávez provenía también de la provincia de Toledo. Había nacido en Almo- 
  dóvar del Campo, en 1540.  Dos de sus hijas se casaron con hijos de Cristóbal de Ontiveros, quien 
  estaba emparentado con la fámilia del primer gobernador de la Nueva Vizcaya.'" Sánchez de Chávez 
  administró quizá las propiedades que Ibarra poseía en la provincia de Santa Bárbara. Habitaba la 
  cuenca del Florido cuando menos desde 1583, en 1586 fue alcalde ordinario de la provincia de Santa 
  Bárbara. Posteriormente, en 1598, recibió de Rodrigo del Río tierras en el camino a Todos Santos así 
  como una encomienda de indios. un En 1607 compró una propiedad que había pertenecido a Martín 
  López de Ibarra, primo del primer gobernador. Esta estancia se situaba en la laguna de Santiago, cerca 
  de la misión de Atotonilco. Sánchez de Chávez, falleció en 1641 a la respetable edad de 101 años; le 
  sucedió su sobrino Juan Fernández Pasos.182
Event

Pedro Sanchez (Saenz) was one of 8 soldiers from the Santa Barbara area of Nueva Vizcaya who signed up for the Chamuscado Expedition to New Mexico. Pedro did not remain in New Mexico for long - he was back in Santa Barbara in 1582.

"En la expedición de Rodriguez-Chamuscado de 1581 participaron ocho soldados acompañados por sus indios y sirvientes. Dos de los ocho soldados enlistados (Pedro Sánchez de Chávez y Pedro Sánchez de Fuensalida) eran encomenderos de la provincia de Santa Bárbara. Junto con el primer Pedro iba su hermano Juan Sánchez de Fuensalida, avecindado también en la región. Agustín Rodríguez y Francisco López,quienes eran misioneros del convento de San Bartolomé, alcanzaron a la pequeña tropa con la intención de quedarse en las tierras de los "indios pueblo"95 para evangelizarlos. Los frailes realizaron su objetivo pero los soldados españoles volvieron a Santa Bárbara después de algunas semanas de exploraciones que no reportaron ninguna riqueza de consideración.% Esta expedicion revela, sin embargo, la atracción que ejercía aún el Nuevo México incluso sobre los colonos más afortunados de la provincia de Santa Bárbara."

Property

Pedro Sanchez mined an abandoned a mineral vein on a hill overlooking Parral that 20 years later became the site of the largest silver strike in the region. Bad luck.

(page 100) En 1611 dos de los primeros pobladores de la provincia, Alonso del Castillo y Pedro Sánchez de Chávez, explotaban en los yacimientos del cerro que dominaría 20 años después el asentamiento minero. Beneficiaban la plata en la hacienda, vecina de San Juan que pertenecía al Alonso del Castillo, pero ambos mineros abandonaron muy pronto esta actividad al comprobar que la ley de los minerales era demasiado baja. Hacia 1620 un oligarca llamado Francisco de Montañas de la Cueva, casado con la hija de uno de los fundadores de Zacatecas, fundó a su vez una hacienda al pie del Cerro de los Tarahumaras. En 1630 Bernardo Gómez también probó suerte en ese mismo lugar pero tampoco descubrió ninguna veta de consideración y sólo logró explotar una cantidad menor de minerales. En julio de 1631 Juan Rangel de Biezma, quién era cuñado del dueño de la hacienda de San Juan y de Bernardo Gómez, hizo un gran hallazgo al dar con la veta de La Negrita en el cerro que dominaba el vado de Parral. El primer ensayo del mineral extraído de la veta arrojó la increíble cantidad de 7 marcos de plata por quintal en una región donde se consideraban dignos de explotarse los minerales que contenían sólo dos marcos por quintal.

(Translation) In 1611 two of the first settlers of the province, Alonso del Castillo and Pedro Sánchez de Chávez, explored in the deposits of the hill that would dominate the mining settlement 20 years later. They benefited from the silver in the hacienda, a neighbor of San Juan that belonged to Alonso del Castillo, but both miners abandoned this activity very soon when they saw that the mineral was too low. Around 1620 an oligarch named Francisco de Montaña de la Cueva, married to the daughter of one of the founders of Zacatecas, founded a farm at the foot of the Cerro de los Tarahumaras. In 1630 Bernardo Gómez also tried his luck in that same place but he also did not discover any streak of consideration and only managed to exploit a smaller amount of minerals.

In July 1631, Juan Rangel de Biezma, who was the brother-in-law of the owner of the hacienda of San Juan, and Bernardo Gómez, made a great find when he found the La Negrita vein on the hill that dominated the ford of Parral. The first test of the mineral extracted from the vein produced the incredible amount of 7 silver frames per quintal in a region where minerals containing only two frames per quintal were considered worthy of exploitation

Name

I have designated Pedro Sanchez (Pedro Saes) de Chavez as the father of Capitan Antonio Saens based on published claims within familysearch.org that I have not personally verified but appear well researched.

Death

There is a document from 1633 in which María Rodríguez referred to herself as "muger legitima que fue de Pedro Saez de Chaves, difunto" ("legitimate wife of Pedro Sáez de Cháves, deceased") [AHP, Roll 1633A, fr. 634]. She referenced the last will and testament of her husband, indicating he was dead by 1633.

Shared note

This information can be found on several sites on the Internet. I don't know its origins, but this copy was found on NewMexicoBustamenteFamily.blogspot.com:

"On March 2, 1635, in the Real y Minas del Pueblo de San Juan del Río, Nueva Vizcaya, General Cristóbal de Ontiveros, the executor of the estate of his deceased father-in-law, Captain Pedro Sánchez de Cháves (aka Sáez de Cháves) appeared before the Alcalde Mayor y Capitán a Guerra Captain don Francisco de Simancas, jointly represented by his wife, doña María Sáez, and by Captain Gerónimo de los Reyes, the representative of Captain Diego de Ontiversos, husband of doña Ana Sáez. This last couple was described as vecinos of the Valle de San Juan. General Cristóbal de Ontiveros provided an account of the settlement of the estate of Pedro Sánchez de Cháves, identifying doña María Sáez and doña Ana Sáez as sisters and legitimate daughters of Captain Pedro Sánchez de Cháves, a vecino of the "provincia de Santa Barabara," located in the Valle de San Bartolomé. (AHP, Roll 1641A, frs. 629-635). Ontiveros then named the children and heirs of Captain Pedro Sánchez de Cháves as doña Ana Sáes, doña Ana Sáez, Antonio Sáez, and Ambrosio Sáez.

According to information provided by General Ontiveros, Pedro Sánchez de Cháves had some property valued at 9,644 pesos (approximately $290,000), which consisted of a hacienda in the Valle de San Gregorio with land for livestock (cattle, sheep and goats), a "molino de pan" (a bread mill), and operations for extracting silver. Pedro Sánchez de Cháves also owned agricultural land and land for raising sheep and goats (ganado menor) that was known as Santa María, situated in the Valle de San Gregorio. In the settlement of estate, Antonio Sáez received over 3,000 pesos (approximately $90,000 in modern monetary terms) in accordance with his father's last will and testament in the form of 1,000 pesos, and two African slaves and the property of Santa María in the Valle de San Gregorio. Captain Diego de Ontiveros and Ana Sáez received 1,500 pesos. Captain Gerónimo de los Reyes, for his "solicitud de suerte," received 1,400 pesos. The total amount for Ambrosio Saez is not stated but the remaining amount owed to him was 2,594 pesos. An attached document from Captain Diego de Ontiveros and his wife doña Ana Sáez mentions her parents as Pedro Sánchez de Chávez and María Rodríguez.

There is a document from 1633 in which María Rodríguez referred to herself as "muger legitima que fue de Pedro Saez de Chaves, difunto" ("legitimate wife of Pedro Sáez de Cháves, deceased") [AHP, Roll 1633A, fr. 634]. She referenced the last will and testament of her husband, indicating he was dead by 1633. She again referred to her husband as "Pedro Saez," rather than Pedro Sánchez, indicating that the Sáez family name came from his side of the family.

Additional documentation indicates that the Ambrosio Sáez mentioned as a son of Pedro Sánchez (Sáez) de Cháves (deceased by 1633) was not the same person named as Ambrosio Sáez (b.ca. 1636-40) who settled in New Mexico, but this second Ambrosio Sáez was very likely a close relative being either a son or nephew of the elder Ambrosio Sáez.

In 1632, the elder Amborsio Sáez identified himself as a vecino and minero of the new discovery of San José de Parral, and referred to ten varas of a mine that he owned in the cerro (hill) of San José de Parral (AHP, Roll 1632, fr. 149-150). He signed the document, indicating he was literate. On September 12, 1635, Ambrosio Sáez gave official power of attorney to Damián de Ávila, a resident of San José del Parral, stating he was a "vecino y minero y labrador del Valle de san Bartolomé, provincia de Santa Barbara de la Na Vizcaya (AHP, Roll 1635, fr. 460). Ambrosio signed this document as well. Eleven years later on July 4, 1646, at San José del Parral, Ambrosio Sáez identified himself as a vecino y labrador del Valle de San Bartolomé when he registered a mine "que esta de quarenta leguas deste Real camino carril de carros del Nuevo Mexico azia el oriente y pasando el ultimo bando del Rio de Sacramento." He titled his mine "la mina de Sacramento." In this claim he mentioned the name of a son, Juan Sáez, and he mentioned a brother, "Capitán Antonio Saes, mi hermano." (1645B, fr. 556-557).

A few days latter, Captain Ambrosio Sáez, "vecino y labrador en el Valle de San Bartolomé," wrote a letter dated July 7, 1646. He declared he was the careteaker of the belongings of General Cristóbal de Ontiveros, apparently deceased at the time. He mentioned the widow of Ontiveros was doña María Sáez, who we know was his sister from other documents. (1645B, fr. 553). "

Researchers: Robert D. Martínez and José Antonio Esquibel

Sources: El Archivo de Hidalgo del Parral (AHP), Roll 1632, frs. 149-150, Roll 1633A, fr. 634, Roll 1635, fr. 460, Roll 1641A, frs. 629-635, 1645B, frs. 553-557.

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