Biography of Jose Mascareņas, Santa Fe County, New Mexico *********************************************************** Submitted by: Yolanda R. Chavez Date: 9 Jun 2018 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nm/santafe/santafe.htm *********************************************************** Biography of: JOSE MASCAREŅAS BY Fray Angelico Chavez, Origins of New Mexico Families and the Spanish Archives of New Mexico. JOSE MASCAREŅAS, twenty-six years old, the son of Felipe and born in Mexico City, brought his family with the colonists of 1693. He has a medium build, large eyes, and scars on an eyebrow and chin. His wife, Maria de Acosta, eighteen, the daughter of Nicolas, was also born in Mexico City; she was of medium height, dark, with large eyes and a small nose. They had an eight-year old daughter, Josefa Melchora, born in Mexico City, who had a broad face, large eyes, and a thick nose. Jose was a calderero (boilermaker) by trade. He gave his age as twenty-seven in 1695, and twenty- eight in 1697, giving Mexico City as his birth place. He first lived in Santa Cruz, NM, and then was in Santa Fe where he signed his name as "Jose Bernardo Mascareņas." In 1701 he and his wife were living in Bernalillo, where a son, Francisco was born on February 27. Another child, Maria, is treated further on in connection with the Archibeque family. Jose must have died in the early part of the century, as Maria de Acosta had married a Juan Nolasco Armijo or Aguero, and died prior to 1732. The children were known in Santa Fe as "the orphans of Jose Mascareņas." One girl, Maria, was reared in the household of Juan de Archibeque, who has a natural son by her. This boy, Juan was reared in his father's house, and bore the Archibeque name. After his father's death he took his mother's maiden name instead.