- Andres Trujillo and Maria Guadalupe Valdez, Santa Cruz de la Canada and Pojoaque, 22 October-
22 December 1806, AHAD 362, f. 393-98.
Andres Trujillo, 37, widowed of Juliana Pefia, was the legitimate son o f the late Pedm
Trujillo and Josefa Gomez del Castillo and a citizen of the Pojoaque jurisdiction. Maria Guadalupe
Valdez, 26. was the widow of Juan Sanchez and the legitimate daughter of Bernardo VaJdez and
Maria Manuela Suazo, citizen of the jurisdiction of Santa Cruz. They were related in the fourth
degree of affinity on the basis copula !jcito. Maria Guadalupe was a poor widow with four small
children and was living on the meager means her: late husband left her. Andres would be able to
provide for her. The couple asked that the proceedings be forwarded to Father Castro, Maria
Guadalupe's priest. Andres stated that he had had carnal relations with her before they knew they
were relat~d. Having leam,ed about the relationship six months earlier, they had abstained from
further sexual relations. 1hey had not had sex to facilitate a dispensation.
Witnesses: for Andres were Paulin Espinosa, 62, explained that one of Maria Guadalupe's
children was an eight-year-old boy, and the other three were younger girls.
Cristobal Archuleta, 57.
Juana Lujan 1st degree Maria Lujan
Francisco Gomez 2nd degree Figuenia Sanchez
Josefa Gomez 3rd degree Pedro Ignacio Sanchez
Andres Trujillo 4th degree Juan Sanchez
Father Martinez de Arellano forwarded the proceedings to Father Castro in Santa Cruz. On
26 October 1806, Father Castro questioned Maria Guadalupe Valdez. She stated that she had lived in that area for twelve years and for fifteen years before that in the Abiquiu area.
Witnesses: Joaquin Garda, 66, citizen of the Santa Cruz jurisdiction.
Antonio Ascencio Lucero, 63, citizen of the Santa Cruz jurisdiction.
Father Castro forwarded the proceedings to Durango on 28 October 1806. On 22
December, Vicar General Millan Rodriguez granted a dispensation.
Burial Certificates
1. In Santa Cruz on 4 May 1798, Father Ortega buried Juan Sanchez, 29, husband of Maria
Guadalupe Valdez.
2. On 2 September 1801, Father Hozio. interim priest of the Santa Fe presidio, buried
Juliana Pena, wife of Jose Andres Trujillo, citizen of Pojoaque.
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