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356 Part Three José in Puebla de los Ángeles, New Spain.25 The next known child, María Domínguez de la Cruz, was baptized in the sagrario chapel of the Catedral de México in Mexico City on November 4, 1620.26 The Domínguez family was back in Puebla de los Ángeles for the birth of Domingo Domínguez de la Cruz, who received the sacrament of baptism in the chapel of the Cathedral of Puebla de los Ángeles on January 23, 1622.27 Tomé Domínguez and Elena de la Cruz apparently relocated permanently to Mexico City by 1623. During this year their fourth son was christened Tomé at the sagrario chapel of the Catedral de México on February 19, 1623.28 The child’s godfather was a man named Gaspar Rodríguez. Records indicate five of the next seven children of the Domínguez family were born in Mexico City between 1627 and 1636. Pedro Domínguez de la Cruz was christened on July 10, 1624.29 A second daughter named María Domínguez de la Cruz was baptized December 31, 1625.30 Juan Domínguez de Mendoza, the subject of this book, was baptized in the chapel of the Mexico City cathedral on May 30, 1627, and Damiana Domínguez de Mendoza received the sacrament of baptism on October 4, 1628.31 Four younger daughters of Tomé Domínguez and Elena de la Cruz were Leonor Domínguez de Mendoza (baptized March 5, 1630, Mexico City), Francisca Domínguez de Mendoza, Elena Domínguez de Mendoza, Baleriana Domínguez de la Cruz (baptized January 25, 1635, Mexico City), and Isabel Domínguez de la Cruz (baptized June 8, 1636, Mexico City).32 The names of the children of Tomé Domínguez illustrate the custom of naming children after close relatives, particularly grandparents and greatgrandparents . Juan Domínguez de Mendoza was named for his maternal grandfather. Tomé Domínguez de Mendoza was named for his father and paternal grandfather, and Francisco Domínguez de Mendoza for his maternal great-grandfather. Leonor Domínguez de Mendoza was named for her paternal and maternal grandmothers, Elena Domínguez de Mendoza was named for her mother, and Isabel Domínguez de la Cruz was named for her paternal great-grandmother. The Domínguez de Mendoza Family in New Mexico Tomé Domínguez’s association with New Mexico can be traced to 1631, when fray Estéban de Perea, the comisario of New Mexico, sent some dispatches to Mexico City in the care of Domínguez, who was identified as a vecino of Mexico City.33 On March 4, 1633, fray Estéban de Perea, again in his capacity as comisario of New Mexico, made reference in a letter to Inquisition officials to a lawsuit from 1632 against “a loyal taxpaying citizen of this city [Mexico In Service to the Spanish Crown 357 City] named Thomé Domínguez, brother of Juan Matheo, who sells wines on the Calle de Tacuba near the blacksmith’s.”34 This brief reference identified Tomé Domínguez as a wine merchant who apparently conducted business with the Franciscans friars related to transporting wine to New Mexico, or perhaps he bought wine for export from New Mexico to be sold in New Spain. On May 26, 1633, Domínguez presented himself at the Convento de la Concepción at Pueblo de Cuarác in New Mexico to have his testimony recorded in a case of bigamy against a mulatto name Juan Antón.35 Domínguez declared he was vecino of Mexico City, and thus was not yet officially a resident of New Mexico. He recounted that he left New Mexico in July 1632 and that when he arrived at Cuencamé in Nueva Vizcaya, he went to a house of some tailors, where a miner by the name of Corea asked if Domínguez knew a mulatto named Juan Antón who had traveled with Maestre de Campo Pedro Durán y Chaves. Domínguez responded that he knew the mulatto, who was married in New Mexico to an Indian woman. Corea informed Domínguez that Juan Antón was also married to an African slave of his, who actually served the food in the house of the tailors, further revealing Juan Antón’s bigamy. This testimony served as part of the denunciation of Juan Antón to the Office of the Inquisition. Domínguez was back in Mexico City in 1634 when...

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