300. Nicolás⁹ Durán Y Cháves Don⁽¹⁵⁵⁹⁾ was born in El Paso Del Norte, Province Of New Mexico 1686.⁽¹⁵⁶⁰⁾

He married Juana Montaño Doña in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, July 20, 1714.⁽¹⁵⁶¹⁾ Juana was born in Guadalupe Del Paso, Kingdom Of New Mexico before 1693.⁽¹⁵⁶²⁾ Juana⁽¹⁵⁶³⁾ was the daughter of Juan Antonio Montano De Soto-Mayor and Isabel Jorge De Vera. Juana became the mother of Juan José Durán Y Cháves before 1714.⁽¹⁵⁶⁴⁾ Juana became the mother of Nicolás Durán Y Cháves about 1719.⁽¹⁵⁶⁵⁾ At 28 years of age Juana became the mother of Gertrudis Durán Y Cháves 1720.⁽¹⁵⁶⁶⁾ At 28 years of age Juana became the mother of Bernardo Durán Y Cháves 1720.⁽¹⁵⁶⁷⁾ At 29 years of age Juana became the mother of Bernardo Durán Y Cháves 1721.⁽¹⁵⁶⁸⁾ At 36 years of age Juana became the mother of María Antonia Durán Y Cháves 1728.⁽¹⁵⁶⁹⁾ At 41 years of age Juana became the mother of Juan Durán Y Cháves Don 1733.⁽¹⁵⁷⁰⁾ At 51 years of age Juana became the mother of Francisco Duran Y Cháves 1743.⁽¹⁵⁷¹⁾

Nicolás became the father of Juan José Durán Y Cháves before 1714.⁽¹⁵⁷²⁾ At 34 years of age Nicolás became the father of Bernardo Durán Y Cháves 1720.⁽¹⁵⁷³⁾ At 35 years of age Nicolás became the father of Bernardo Durán Y Cháves 1721.⁽¹⁵⁷⁴⁾ At 42 years of age Nicolás became the father of María Antonia Durán Y Cháves 1728.⁽¹⁵⁷⁵⁾ At 47 years of age Nicolás became the father of Juan Durán Y Cháves Don 1733.⁽¹⁵⁷⁶⁾ At 57 years of age Nicolás became the father of Francisco Duran Y Cháves 1743.⁽¹⁵⁷⁷⁾ Nicolás participated in the Will Written event May 19, 1768 in Atrisco, Province Of New Mexico.⁽¹⁵⁷⁸⁾ Nicolas Duran y Chaves was twenty-four and a resident of Atrisco when he had at least one natural child, already four years old in 1714, when he decided to marry its mother, Juana Montano, of Santa Fe. The wedding took place on July 20, 1714. She was the sister of two other Montano girls, Magdalena and Leonore, who had married his brothers Antonio and Luis. The men were second cousins of the women. Nicolas acquired much property south of Isleta and appears in several land litigations.

He made his last will on May 19, 1768, in which he gave the names of his parents and of his wife, followed by his eight sons and five daughters: Jose, Gertrudis, Bernardo, Luis, Fernando, Isabel, Antonio, Maria Francisca, Maria Antonia, Juan, Vicente, Maria and Francisco. Of the girls, Gertrudis married Francisco Silva and Maria Antonia married Tadeo Romero and later a Domingo Baca.

The sons are as follows: Jose married Luisa de Aragon, February 3, 1732; Bernardo married an apacha, Maria Benavides, and then his first cousin's widow, Maria Josefa Nunez; Luis married Eduarda Yturrieta, April 20, 1747; Fernando married Antonia Sanchez and Francisco married Maria Gertrudis Alvarez de Castillo, April 6, 1756.

From "Chavez, A Distinctive American Clan in New Mexico by Fray Angelico Chavez: In 1719 Nicolás acted as a pre-nuptial witness giving his age as twenty-six, hence born at El Paso del Norte around the year 1686. He was the sixth son of Don Fernando, and also residing with the family in Atrisco when he took the third on of the Montaño sisters to wife. Her name was Juana Montaño. This took place on July 20, 1714, when they already had at least one boy who was four years old. It had taken her that much more time to get her Chaves man. It could also have been a turbulent union for a time, since once, after he gave her a beating, she tried walking all the way to her own folks in Santa Fe before Nicolás caught up with her at Bernalillo. Yet they managed to produce a very large family of which we have a complete list, thanks to the extant will which he drew up on May 19, 1768. In it he stated the names of his parents, his wife, and the following eight sons and four daughters according to their ages: José, Gertrudis, Bernardo, Luis, Fernando, Isabel, Antonio, María Antonia, Juan, Vicente, María and Francisco.

Of the four girls, there is further record only of the first three named in the will. The eldest one, as Doña Gertrudis Duran y Chaves, and fifteen in 1729, the daughter of Don Nicolás Chaves and Doña Juana Montaño, natives of New Mexico living in Atrisco, married Francisco Silva, thirty, a New Mexico native of Mexico City. [Genealogy: Gertrudis D. y Chaves, Agustina Silva, Lugarda Tafoya, Pablo Baca, Tomas Baca, Nicanor Baca, Fabian Chavez, Fray Angelico Chavez]. This latter couple had come with the Mexico Valley colonists of 1694. The next daughter, Isabel Chaves, as we learn from the 1798 pre-nuptial investigation of a grandson, José Lugardo Padilla, had married a certain Padilla, and was there identified as a daughter of Nicolas Chaves, the brother of Antonio Chaves. The third one, María Antonio Chaves had three husbands, the first two having an interesting historical background,

Nicolás Durán Y Cháves Don and Juana Montaño Doña had the following children:

301 i. Luis⁸ Durán Y Cháves⁽¹⁵⁷⁹⁾ (living status unknown).

302 ii. Fernando Durán Y Cháves⁽¹⁵⁸⁰⁾ (living status unknown).

303 iii. Isabel Durán Y Cháves⁽¹⁵⁸¹⁾ (living status unknown).

304 iv. Antonio Durán Y Cháves⁽¹⁵⁸²⁾ (living status unknown).

305 v. María Francisca Durán Y Cháves⁽¹⁵⁸³⁾ (living status unknown).

306 vi. Vicente Durán Y Cháves⁽¹⁵⁸⁴⁾ (living status unknown).

307 vii. María Durán Y Cháves⁽¹⁵⁸⁵⁾ (living status unknown).

308 viii. Juan José Durán Y Cháves⁽¹⁵⁸⁶⁾ was born before 1714.⁽¹⁵⁸⁷⁾ He married Luisa De Aragon February 3, 1731/32.⁽¹⁵⁸⁸⁾ (Additional notes for Luisa De Aragon⁽¹⁵⁸⁹⁾)

309 ix. Bernardo Durán Y Cháves⁽¹⁵⁹⁰⁾ was born 1720.⁽¹⁵⁹¹⁾ He married four times. He married Maria Luz Benevides. (Additional notes for Maria Luz Benevides⁽¹⁵⁹²⁾) Maria died before August 5, 1771.⁽¹⁵⁹³⁾ He married María Francesca Quintana. (Additional notes for María Francesca Quintana⁽¹⁵⁹⁴⁾) He married María De La Luz in Isleta, New Mexico, after April 20, 1762.⁽¹⁵⁹⁵⁾ María was born 1734.⁽¹⁵⁹⁶⁾ (Additional notes for María De La Luz⁽¹⁵⁹⁷⁾) He married María Josefa Nuñez in Isleta, New Mexico, after August 5, 1771.⁽¹⁵⁹⁸⁾ María was born in Mexico City, Mexico 1731.⁽¹⁵⁹⁹⁾ (Additional notes for María Josefa Nuñez⁽¹⁶⁰⁰⁾)

310 x. María Antonia Durán Y Cháves⁽¹⁶⁰¹⁾ was born 1728.⁽¹⁶⁰²⁾ She married twice. She married Domingo Baca. Domingo was born 1738.⁽¹⁶⁰³⁾ (Additional notes for Domingo Baca⁽¹⁶⁰⁴⁾) She married Tadeo Romero in San Augustin De La Isleta Chur, Isleta, Province Of New Mexico, March 20, 1750/51.⁽¹⁶⁰⁵⁾ (Additional notes for Tadeo Romero⁽¹⁶⁰⁶⁾) On March 20, 1751, this María Antonia married Tadeo Romero, the son of Matías Romero and Angela Teresa Vallejo. He was descended in a direct line from Bartolomé Romero and Luisa Robledo, a married couple from Toldeo which had arrived in 1598; Bartolomé was Oñate's artillery captain who made the conquest of Acoma possible in that year, and both were the parents of the Doña Ana Robledo, wife of Francisco Gómez, who in 1622 had invited Governor Sotelo and Doña Isabel de Bohórques, wife of Don Pedro de Chaves, to act as godparents for their first child, Francisco Gómez Robledo. On the other hand, Angela Teresa Vallejo had come from Mexico City in 1694 as a little orphan girl with her Vallejo father, her mother having died during the long journey; she had first married a Miguel Lucero by whom she had some children, and the Matías Romero by who she had this Tadeo Romero [Genealogy: María Antonia Duran y Chaves, Manuel Romero, José Encarnación Chaves, José Francisco Chaves, Eugenio Chavez, Fabian Chavez, Fray Angelico Chavez]

Finally, in 1768 Doña María Antonia Chaves, forty and the widow of Tadeo Romero, daughter of Don Nicolas de Chaves and Doña Juana Montaño, married a Domingo Baca, thirty, an español of San Gabriel de las Nutrias whose parent were not given. A witness was her youngest brother Francisco who lived in El Rancho de Guadalupe (Los Chaves) in the Isleta District.

311 xi. Juan Durán Y Cháves Don⁽¹⁶⁰⁷⁾ was born 1733.⁽¹⁶⁰⁸⁾ He married María Magdalena Varela Doña in San Augustin De La Isleta Chur, Isleta, Province Of New Mexico, April 16, 1761.⁽¹⁶⁰⁹⁾ 1761, April 4 (No. 3) Albuquerque. Don Juan Duran y Chaves (28), español of Isleta parish, son of Don Nicolas Duran y Chaves and Da. Juana Montaño, and Da. Magdalena Varela (18), española of Alameda, d. of Don Pedro Varela and Da. Casilda Gonzales, deceased. Witnesses: Mateo Jose Pino, notary of Isleta; Bernardo Padilla (36) of the same parish, Don Pedro Padilla (28) of Plaza S. Andres. Pair married April 16, 1761.

María was born 1743.⁽¹⁶¹⁰⁾ (Additional notes for María Magdalena Varela Doña⁽¹⁶¹¹⁾)

+ 214 xii. Francisco Duran Y Cháves was born 1743.

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