Gómez & Rosales Family of El Paso, Texas

Diego Machon participated in inquisition proceedings against a New Christian. Excerpt taken from INQUISITION ET SOCIÉTÉ AU MEXIQUE by Solange Alberro.

I.3.5. ANTISEMITISM, SOCIAL CATALYST (Translated From French)

In 1626, three identical denunciations were recorded against descendants of Jews; the 3 took their source in the conflicting environment of the officers of the cabildo: Diego Machón de Urrutia, general depositary, 'traite' Diego de León, rich miner, whose grandfather was baptized standing. The accusation is resumed and amplified before the Commissioner of the Holy Office by Juan Moreno de Villegas, another minor who adds that León is rich, father of the current alguacil mayor, and that he wears silk garments embroidered with gold despite the prohibitions hanging over the descendants of new Christians punished by the Inquisition. However, it is most likely this Diego de León, parent and straw man of the fearsome Santiago de Vera, president of the Royal Audience and governor of New Galicia from 1593 to 1605 .... This high-ranking figure, systematically practicing a policy of shameless nepotism, named Diego de León, uncle of his children, first of all Mayor of Sombrerete, then of the Fresnillo mines....