Members are invited to our annual meeting and election.
October 19, 2024, 10 a.m. MDT
To attend, you must sign up in advance.
The annual meeting will include, a state-of-the-society report,
an election of board members, and a guest speaker.
José Antonio Esquibel
Mutiny and Murder: The Religious Feud that Formed the
Genealogies of 17th-Century New Mexico
Annual Meeting
The New Mexico mutiny of 1639 separated the Spanish vecinos for more than a year into two opposing groups. The families that supported the Franciscans fought against the families that supported Governor don Luis de Rosas. This presentation will delve into the historical context that led to this mutiny starting around 1612 and which culminated in the murder of Rosas. The consequences of the ongoing political conflict continued to affect social conditions of NM into the 1660s, including matrimonial alliances (which families intermarried) and where families lived.
On one side of the conflict were the vecinos who supported the authority of the Franciscans. And on the other were the vecinos who supported the authority of the successive governors. The first faction held the upper hand politically and economically until the murder of Rosas. After that event, the second faction became the dominant families in the politics and economy of New Mexico. This presentation will identify which families belonged to which factions and which families managed to not get entangled in the long-standing and at times violent political feud.
A long-time author and contributor to the New Mexico Genealogist and speaker at our conferences, José Antonio Esquibel is a genealogical researcher and historian specializing on the history of 17th century New Mexico and co-author with France V. Scholes, Eleanor B. Adams, and Marc Simmons of Juan Domínguez de Mendoza: Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627–1693 (University of New Mexico Press, 2012).
To attend, you must sign up in advance.
Update
NMGS is not having a conference in 2024.
Our Mission Statement
The purpose of New Mexico Genealogical Society (NMGS) is to promote, develop, and encourage genealogical research, to preserve and perpetuate the records of ancestry and publish records, and to make genealogical and historical information available to all through publications, meetings, and workshops.
