Biography of Antonio de Moya, Santa Fe County, New Mexico

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ANTONIO DE MOYA
BIOGRAPHY
FROM ORIGINS OF NEW MEXICO FAMILIES
BY FRAY ANGELICO CHAVEZ

ANTONIO DE MOYA, was a mason by trade who joined the colonists of 1693 with his wife, Francisca
Antonia Morales, or de Guijosa. He was a native of Mexico City, born at Santa Teresa, the son of
Juan, and twenty-one years old. He had a broad face, large eyes and forehead and rather wide nose.
His wife, seventeen, the daughter of Juan, and born in Mexico City at Las Escalerillas, had a round
face, and  big eyes.

Their children were Pedro Antonio, Lucas Miguel, and Maria Francisca, the eldest, who had been born
on the way from Mexico City at the Presidio del Gallo. In 1709 she married Juan Esteban de Apodaca
in Santa Fe.

By 1715, Antonio was dead and his widow was married to Andres de la Paz in Santa Fe. Francisca
herself passed away on April 20, 1752 in Santa Fe, more than eighty years old.

Pedro Antonio Moya and his sister Francisca were sponsors for Indians at Taos in July 1715. Pedro
died in Taos, December 8, 1716, leaving a widow, Ana Maria Dominguez.

Lucas Miguel Moya, became the third husband of Juana Anaya Almazán, and in his five years of married
life, had two children by her: Lucas de Jesus and Pedro Antonio. Juana died on November 17, 1736 in
Santa Fe. Lucas Miguel was a charter officer of Our Lady of Light Confraternity.