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Francisco Xavier de Chabes Signature From His Will of 1762

Francisco Xavier de CHAVES1764

Name
Francisco Xavier de CHAVES
Given names
Francisco Xavier
Surname
de CHAVES
Also known as
Francisco Xavier Domínguez
Note: Raised by Pedro Chavez but was an illegitimate son of Tomé Dominguez. Unlike some researchers I have placed Francisco as an illegitimate son of Tome III because Tome IV was definitely dead by 1681. Francisco de Chavez birth date is not known but he was most likely born after 1680. In the 1730 baptism record of his son Joseph Felix he went by the name Francisco Xavier Domínguez. In 1745 Parral, Francisco de Chaves was the main witness at the marriage of Francisco Baca, son of Estefania Dominguez de Mendoza - daughter of Francisco Dominguez de Mendoza, which supports the claim of a family connection to the Domínguez clan.
Birth of a daughter
#1
Maria Mattiana de CHAVES

Family History of Francisco's GrandSon
Family History of Francisco Javier Chavez

Baptism of a half-sisterCathalina de la Rosa DOMINGUEZ
August 20, 1687
Note: Mexico, Select Baptisms, 1560-1950 For Cathalina Domingues Caravajal
Baptism of a half-sisterJuana DOMINGUEZ de VARELA
March 28, 1690
Note: Mexico, Select Baptisms, 1560-1950 For Juana Domingez Varela
Baptism of a half-brotherSalvador DOMINGUEZ de VARELA
August 1, 1696
Note: Mexico, Select Baptisms, 1560-1950 For Salvador Dominguez Barela
Baptism of a half-sisterElena DOMINGUEZ de VARELA
May 19, 1699
Note: Mexico, Select Baptisms, 1560-1950 For Elena Domingues Varela
Death of a fatherTomé “El Mozo” DOMINGUEZ de MENDOZA
about 1700

Note: Tome's youngest child Elena was born in 1699 and Tomé was deceased at the time of his daughter Josepha's marriage in 1701.
Military
La compañía volante de campaña del Valle de San Bartolomé,
1721

Note: En esa campaña salen el cabo Manuel Burciaga, Antonio de Ortega, Gabriel García, Cristóbal de Talave…
Soldiers From Multiple Nueva Vizcaya Units against the Indians in Coahuila
Soldiers From Multiple Nueva Vizcaya Units against the Indians in Coahuila

Note: Three of our ancestors were soldiers in the units that responded to Indian attacks against Santiago …

Baptism of a daughterCatarina Rita de CHAVES
May 15, 1726
Note: Mexico Baptisms, 1560-1950 For Catarina Rita Chaves Enriques
Baptism of a sonPrudencio Francisco de CHAVES
December 4, 1727
Note: Mexico, Select Baptisms, 1560-1950 for Prudencio Franco. Dominguez Navarrete (incorrect)
Baptism of a sonJuan Nepomucano de CHAVES
June 11, 1730
Note: Mexico Baptisms, 1560-1950 For Juan Nepomuceno Fernando Domingues Manrrigues
Baptism of a sonJoseph Felix de CHAVES
June 11, 1730
Note: Mexico Baptisms, 1560-1950 For Joseph Felis Domingues Manrrigues
Baptism of a sonAntonio Florentino de CHAVES
October 22, 1732
Note: Mexico Baptisms, 1560-1950 For Antonio Florentino Chaves Manriques
Baptism of a daughterMaria Mattiana de CHAVES
March 12, 1735
Note: Mexico Baptisms, 1560-1950 For Maria Mathiana Chaves Enriques
Fact
Chavez Owner of Hacienda de San Cristobal
about 1739

Note: Prudencio de Chavez owned the Hacienda de San Cristobal before Francisco Xavier Chavez..
Marriage of a childRufino de ALMASANYsabel de CHAVESView this family
Type: Religious marriage
October 11, 1743
Note: Mexico, Select Marriages Index, 1556-1989 For Rufino De Almazan
Marriage of Relative
Witness
May 16, 1745
Note: Francisco Xavier was witness to marriage of Francisco Baca, part of the Dominguez de Mendoza clan in Parral, some 50 years after the clan's exodus from New Mexico.
Property
Hacienda de San Cristóbal
1750
Marriage of a childJoaquin VILLEGASMaria Mattiana de CHAVESView this family
July 3, 1753
Note: Mexico Marriages For Joachin Villegas
Military
Local Defense Force
January 1, 1755
Note: The Archives of Parral contains a file that lists the local citizens of Nuevas Minas and Santa Barba…
Page Six of List of Defenders of Pueblos Near Parral, 1755
Page Six of List of Defenders of Pueblos Near Parral, 1755

Note: Transcription of water stained part:

Marriage of a childFranco OROSCOMaria Justa de CHAVESView this family
April 3, 1758
Note: Mexico, Select Marriages Index, 1556-1989 For Maria De Chaves
Death 1764
Note: The following record indicates Francisco died in 1762 but other documents in Parral having his signa…


Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
himself
Father’s family with Catalina LOPEZ de MEDEROS - View this family
father
step-mother
Marriage: about 1642
half-brother
half-brother
-9 years
half-brother
8 years
half-brother
9 years
half-brother
half-sister
half-brother
Father’s family with Catalina VARELA de LOSADA - View this family
father
step-mother
half-sister
half-sister
3 years
half-sister
9 years
half-sister
-3 years
half-brother
Family with Francisca Teresa MANRIQUEZ - View this family
himself
wife
daughter
daughter
19 months
son
3 years
son
son
2 years
son
daughter
daughter
Maria Mattiana de CHAVES
Birth: San Bartolome, Valle De Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico
Death: December 15, 1776Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico

Military

En esa campaña salen el cabo Manuel Burciaga, Antonio de Ortega, Gabriel García, Cristóbal de Talavera, Jacinto de Talavera y Ventura Ruiz, que figuran en la lista de 1720. Pero se enlista Bartolomé de Ledesma en lugar de Felipe, y aparecen Eduardo Delfín y FRANCISCO JAVIER CHÁVEZ, que no se incluyen en el padrón de 1720.

Fact

Prudencio de Chavez owned the Hacienda de San Cristobal before Francisco Xavier Chavez..

6494 46 Venta de la hacienda de San Cristobal bienes del finado Don Prudencio Chaves en el Real de San Diego de Minas Nuebas. [Incompleto.] 6 ff. 1739. R-201

6499 405 Carta de venta de la hacienda San Christoval [Joseph Armendaris a Francisco Xavier de Chaves, incompleto. Copia de un documento de 1747]. 3 ff. 1753. R-201

Fact: The Hacienda de San Cristobal in Nueva Minas was held in succession by Francisco Xavier(1750s), then by his widow Francisca Manriquez(1762), then by Prudencio Chaves(1768) until his death in 1803. After a long probate San Cristobal was inherited by ? in ?.

Family History of Francisco's GrandSon

The Prenuptial Investigation for the marriage of Francisco Chavez's grandson reveals the pedigree of Francisco de Chavez. Francisco Chavez was the illegitimate son of Tomé Dominguez of Nuevo Mexico but had taken the surname Chavez because he was raised in the household of Pedro Chavez.

Prenuptial Investigation Into the Engagement of Joaquin Garda Villegas and Marla Josefa de Baca. [ Parral, 9 January.14 February 1781, AHAD- 92, f. 115-30.]

Joaquin Garda Villegas, more than 20, a native of Parral jurisdiction, was the legitimate son of Joaquin Garcia Villegas and [illegible]. Maria Josefa de Baca, 15, a citizen of the Parral jurisdiction, was the legitimate daughter of Francisco Baca and Paula Rubí. Fray Jose Francisco de Frías conducted the proceedings at Parral before the notary, Felix Mariano de Bejarano.

3 Witnesses: Melchor Rodriguez, 40, married, citizen of the Parral jurisdiction, had known the couple since they were children. Santiago Munoz, 49, widower, citizen of the Parral jurisdiction.
 Jose Rodriguez, 35, single, citizen of the Parral jurisdiction.


The banns were ordered published. On 27 January 1781 Father Frias noted that the widow Ana de Enriquez, 54, a citizen of the Parral jurisdiction, had heard the second reading and come forward with an impediment based on a relationship in the fourth degree equally of consanguinity. This was because Francisco Javier Chaves, the natural son of Tome Dominguez, used the surname Chaves because he was an orphan raised in the home of Pedro Chaves. Tome was the brother of Francisco Dominguez, great-grandfather of the petitioning couple, which produced the impediment.

As a result of this charge, Frias suspended the third reading of the banns, and the couple was told of the denunciation and called to retestify. They stated that at the time of their first testimony they had been ignorant of any fourth-degree consanguinity relationship equally on a transverse line and of the fact that Francisco Javier Chaves was the natural son of Tome Dominguez. They still wished to marry with the bishop's dispensation. Garda Villegas prepared a lengthy statement identifying Matiana de Chaves as his mother. She was a second cousin of Francisco Baca, Josefa's father.

Witnesses: On 3 February 1781 Bernardo Ronquillo, 60, a married citizen of the Parral jurisdiction said it was public knowledge that Tome Dominguez was the father of Francisco Javier Chaves. Francisco Javier was called Chaves because he had been raised by Pedro Chaves. Ronquillo also knew Esrefanla Dominguez, the daughter of Francisco Dominguez, the brother of Tome. She was the mother of Francisco Baca, father of the intended bride. From this it could be clearly deduced [hat the couple was related.

Francisco Saenz Moreno, 73, of that area, a businessman and widower, repeated the previous testimony and added that Joaquin Garcia de Villegas was a person who applied himself to work and that there was no doubt that his intended wished to marry him and that her parents were poor.

Jose Saenz Moreno, 60, a laborer and citizen of the same jurisdiction, repeated the previous testimony and added that because of the intermarriage of the Dominguez and Baca families and others, there was much suffering in that place, since everyone was related.

Father Frias had a genealogical tree prepared:

Tomé Domínguez(1), father of Tomé Domínguez(2) and Francisco Domínguez Tomé Domínguez(2), father of Francisco Javier Chavez ; Francisco Domínguez, father of Estefanía Domínguez Francisco Javier Chavez, father of Matiana Chavez ; Estefanía Domínguez, mother of Francisco Baca Matiana Chavez, mother of Joaquín García de Villegas ; Francisco Baca, father of María Josefa Baca

On 6 February 1781 Frias forwarded the proceedings to Durango for review. He justified a dispensation based on the high degree of intermarriage in the area. A doctor of canon law, Felipe Marcos de Soto, acting in the place of the ill bishop, received the proceedings. The bishop granted the dispensation on 14 February 1781.

Taken from: New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Historicos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1760-1799 (pg 64) Rick Hendricks Editor; John B. Colligan Compiler

Marriage of Relative

Francisco Xavier was witness to marriage of Francisco Baca, part of the Dominguez de Mendoza clan in Parral, some 50 years after the clan's exodus from New Mexico.

Military

The Archives of Parral contains a file that lists the local citizens of Nuevas Minas and Santa Barbara in 1755 who would be ready to defend against an Indian insurrection. Francisco Xavier de Chaves and his son Francisco Prudencio are listed as owners and defenders of their estate Hacienda de San Christobal. The page is water damaged and barely legible.

Source: AHMPFCC10002048 Milicia y guerra Padrones de milicia Villa de San Felipe el Real 13/01/1755 Lista de los vecinos con sus armas de los ranchos de Minas Nuevas y Santa Bárbara para la defensa contra los indios enemigos, por mandato de Mateo Antonio de Mendoza, gobernador.

Name

Raised by Pedro Chavez but was an illegitimate son of Tomé Dominguez. Unlike some researchers I have placed Francisco as an illegitimate son of Tome III because Tome IV was definitely dead by 1681. Francisco de Chavez birth date is not known but he was most likely born after 1680. In the 1730 baptism record of his son Joseph Felix he went by the name Francisco Xavier Domínguez. In 1745 Parral, Francisco de Chaves was the main witness at the marriage of Francisco Baca, son of Estefania Dominguez de Mendoza - daughter of Francisco Dominguez de Mendoza, which supports the claim of a family connection to the Domínguez clan.

Death

The following record indicates Francisco died in 1762 but other documents in Parral having his signature and his son Prudencio's signature indicate he was alive in 1764 or maybe even 1765.

Collections › Documentary Relations of the Southwest For CHAVEZ, FRANCISCO XAVIER BID Number 4173 Death 1762 Sep 28: SAN DIEGO Occupation 1762: SAN DIEGO/VECINO Family MANRRIQUEZ, FRANCISCO PRUDENCIO (SN), MANRRIQUEZ, JUAN NEPOMUCANO (SN), MANRRIQUEZ, JOSEPH FELIX (SN), MANRRIQUEZ, ANTONIO FLORENTINO (SN), MANRRIQUEZ, ISABEL ANTONIA (DA), ALMASAN, RUFINO DE (SNL), MANRRIQUEZ, MARIA MATHIANA (DA), GARCIA DE VILLEGAS, JOSEPH JOAQUIN (SNL), MANRRIQUEZ, MARIA JUSTA (DA), OROZCO, JUAN FRANCISCO DE (SNL) Marriage N.D.: PARRAL - MANRRIQUEZ, FRANCISCA Source PRIMARY SOURCE, SIGNATURE, WILL AND TESTAMENT Sources DRSW 100-01703 AZU FILM 318, PARRAL 1762, FR. 0103-0107 Family (unnamed) MANRRIQUEZ, MARIA RITA (DA)

A file in the Archives of Parral from 1764-1765 contains several demands and responses that make it clear Francisco was alive(but ill) in 1764 and had died by Jan 2, 1765.

Note

It is not certain which Tomé Dominguez was the father of Francisco Xavier de Chavez. It could have been Tomé III or Tomé IV. Less likely, there was another Tomé Dominguez who was on the 1707 Militia roll for Valle de San Bartolome who could have been his father. (AHMP.FC.C10.001.027 Milicia y guerra, 05/08/1707 Fondos del Parral, pg 4 ).

The best guess is that Francisco's father is Tomé "El Mozo" Dominguez de Mendoza who was Maestre de Campo in New Mexico until 1684 when he moved south to Chihuahua after the Pueblo revolt. This guess is based on the information that (1) Francisco de Chaves was known to be the illegitimate son of a Tomé Dominguez who had a brother named Francisco (2) Francisco de Chavez was reared in the home of a Pedro de Chaves (3) Tomé "El Mozo" had a brother named Francisco who also came to Chihuahua (4) Tomé "El Mozo" and Pedro de Chaves were closely related in New Mexico and their families came to Chihuahua from New Mexico about the same time where they lived nearby (5) During those years (1680-1701) Tome' was newly married to Cathalina de Varela who had several children with Tomé.

Shared note

Taken From: Santa Fe County, New Mexico Genealogy and History - Genealogy Trails

Biographies

Juan Bartolomé “Tomé” Mendoza II

was born about 1623 in Mexico City. He was about twelve when the family emigrated to New Mexico. He was married to Catalina López Mederos about 1641. They had at least six children. He also had a relationship with an Indian woman, Ana Velásquez, while he was married, and had at least two children from her. During the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, many residents of the Río Abajo District of New Mexico fled to the home of Maestre del Campo Tomé Domínguez de Mendoza, where they were later joined by Lt. Governor Alonso García, our ancestor, leading a group of refugees. A daughter from Ana, Juana Domínguez, was the legitimate wife of our ancestor, Juan Domingo Luján. She and her children were captured during the Pueblo Revolt and kept as prisoners. Perhaps Domingo thought that they were dead at first. They were ransomed about 1692 after twelve years of captivity. By that time Domingo had taken a common-law wife, Ana María Herrera, and had children by her, one of whom is our ancestor, Francisco Xavier Herrera [abt. 1684-abt. 1755] The town of Tomé, New Mexico, emerged from Tome’s former rancho. We are not directly descended from Tome II-he is our uncle- but we are descended directly from his son-in-law Juan Domingo Luján. Tomé’s son, Tome III, died in a battle with the Pueblos in 1681. Two other sons, Juan and Diego were seriously injured by poisoned arrows. Tome II claimed to have lost thirty-eight family members in the Revolt. At Guadalupe del Paso, some citizens were considerably hostile toward Tomé II’s entire family. He was accused of moving all his hacienda goods out of New Mexico when the Revolt began in 1680, burying ploughshares and other implements on the way to lighten the wagons, when he well knew that the Santa Fe people were besieged and need of help. In 1681 the family was accused of profiteering on the misery of the exile colony. The next year, 1682, Tomé and his brother-in-law, Pedro de Cháves, got permission to depart with their families for New Spain. They never returned to New Mexico. His brother, Juan, succeeded Tomé as maestre del campo

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Note: Three of our ancestors were soldiers in the units that responded to Indian attacks against Santiago …
Family History of Francisco's GrandSonComparison of Francisco de Chaves and Estafania Dominguez LinesComparison of Francisco de Chaves and Estafania Dominguez Lines
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Note: Fondas de Parral: Census of Haciendas in Parral District