Misc. church records of the PONS family, 1500's Menorca>Florida

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FERNANDO MARTI CAMPS, Priest, Notary Archivist of the Episcopal
Tribunal of Menorca.

CERTIFIED:  According to the existent documentation in this court,
ascending genealogy line of Matias Pons (Huguet), emigrant to Florida
1768, is as follows:

(I) Juan Pons, colonist of the ancient colony named "Bellver" was
married to Agueda Cardona.  Both were living in the town of Alayor, on
the island of Menorca, the second part of the 16th century.

(II) His son, Pedro Pons (Cardona), colonist of the ancient name "Rafal
d' En Fanals", married Margarita Pons (Tremol), daughter of Pedro and
Antonia, the 14th of September 1618, in the parish of  St. Eulalia in the
town of Alayor.

(III) His son, Miguel Pons (Pons), married twice.  First with Benita
Guardia (Garriga), daughter of Lorenzo and Benita, the 15th of February
1653, Alayor, and having become a widower, he married Francisca Gonalons
(Mercadal), daughter of Jamie and Ana, the 3rd of November 1657, in the
same town of Alayor.

(IV) Miguel Pons (Gonalons) was his son, born of the second marriage of
his father.  He married Margarita Crespi (Ximenes), daughter of Pedro and
of Antonia, the 4th of September 1694, in Alayor.

(V) Miguel Pons (Crespi), his son married Juana Alzina (Salom),
daughter of Francisco and Antonia, the 15th of February 1722, in Alayor.

(VI) It was his son, Francisco Pons (Alzina), who married Agueda Huguet
(Quintana), daughter of Matias and of Margarita, the 8th of February
1747. The last name of the wife is correctly written Huguet (it is the
diminutive Hugo), but in the documentation of the period, various
incorrect forms are evident:  Uguet, Oguet and Euguet or Euget.  But,
after contracting marriage in Alayor, the young couple made their
permanent residence in the town of Mercadal, close to Alayor, on the
same island of Menorca.  There, his established branch continued until
he moved to Florida.  Francisco Pons (Alzina) became the juror of the
University of Mercadal (it is to say, Municipal Adviser of the town),
by that which he gives the year 1755 honorary courtesy title "Magnifico".

These were the children of the Magnifico Francisco Pons and of wife
Agueda Huguet(Quintana):

1. Miguel Pons (Huguet), born in Mercadal and baptized the 16th of
December.  Died in childhood.

2. Matais Pons (Huguet), born in Mercadal and baptized the 23rd of
November 1749.  He moved to Florida where his lineage continued.

3. Juana Pons (Huguet), born in Mercadal, was baptized the 3rd of
January 1752.  Died as a child.

4. Francisco Pons (Huguet), born in Mercadal, baptized the 5th of
October 1753.  He also died at a young age.

5. Miguel Pons (Huguet), born in Mercadal and baptized the 16th of
October 1754.

6. Margarita Pons (Huguet), born in Mercadal, baptized the 9th of
December 1755. Died as a child.

7. Juana Pons (Huguet), born in Mercadal and baptized the 29th of
August 1758.

8. Francisco Pons (Huguet), born in Mercadal and baptized the 15th of
November 1760. His God-Father at the baptism, was the Reverand Pedros
Camps, who later accompanied the Menorcan Expedition to Florida and
died in St. Augustine.

9. Jaime Pons (Huguet), born in Mercadal and baptized the 4th of
February 1763 by the same Reverand Pedro Camps.

10. Margarita Pons (Huguet), born in Mercadal and baptized the 11th
of February 1767 by the Reverand Pedro Camps, at this time vicar of
the parrish Mercadal and spiritual guide for the Menorcan Expedition
to Florida in the following year 1768.

All these dates stated by the documentation of this Archivist Diocesan,
they are signed and certified in Cindadela, the largest city in Menorca,
the 7th of February 1976.


Signed,
Fernando Marti, Priest