Gómez & Rosales Family of El Paso, Texas

Damiana and her entire family were killed by the indians in the Revolt of 1680 in New Mexico.

Pg 52 of [Revolt Documents]

Santa Fe, August 24, 1680. Writ of the March

Notes from the march south of the Spaniards to escape the Revolt:

"about a quarter of a league a ranch of Pedro de Cuellar was recognized; it was found pillaged and destroyed. A little further on we arrived at another house, that of Captain Agustin de Carbajal [6]; the house was found open, with everything stolen, along with the cattle, and in the parlor and a bedroom of the house Captain Agustin de Carvajal, his wife Doña Damiana Dominguez de Mendoza, [7] an adolescent daughter of his, and another woman, dead, and his sons and the rest of the family not to be found. A short distance further we arrived at the house of Captain Cristobal de Anaya; the house was found to have been robbed, along with the cattle and all his belongings and him, his wife, six children and other persons, twelve in total, all killed, stripped"

6 A resident of Galisteo who had contracted a third marriage to Damiana Dominguez de Mendoza. Both died in the rebellion and their corpses were discovered by the Spanish who fled Santa Fe two weeks after their murder (Chávez 1992:15).

7 She also appears as Damiana de Mendoza. She was the daughter of Tome Dominguez de Mendoza and widow of Alvaro de Paredes. She later remarried, this time to Agustin de Carvajal, with whom she was killed in their house at Angostura by the Santo Indians.