New Mexico Baptisms
San Buenaventura de Cochiti Church
1736 - 1873

NMGS Press Item #A13, 2000
Indexed and spiral bound. $45.00. 430 pages.

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Documentation of Spanish Colonial settlement in the Cochiti Pueblo area during the seventeenth century is scarce. Historians have noted that the tendency of New Mexico's first colonists was to settle in the vicinity of the established missions and visitas. Extracted and compiled baptisms include those from 1736 through 1873, as well as those found in loose documents from 1742 through 1844. There is an explanation of Hispanic settlement of the Cochiti Pueblo area, a map, list of abbreviations, and list of phrases. Genealogists and historians of New Mexico's early Spanish Colonial settlement will want to add this important work to their collections.

Included is an 1806 militia list (SANM II, Reel 16, fr. 161-193) [listing] the names of non-Indian males capable of bearing arms at Peña Blanca and Cañada de Cochiti. Never before published, perhaps these names will provide additional information to supplement the baptismal records contained in this volume.

Extracted by Donald Dreesen and Evelyn Lujan Baca. Compiled by Margaret Leonard Windham and Evelyn Lujan Baca. Introduction by David H. Snow; map by Ernie Jaskolski. A publication of the New Mexico Genealogical Society.