Juan Pérez de Bustillo

   * BIRTH: 1558, Ciudád de Mexico, Nueva España [3226]

* DEATH: AFT 1626 [3227]
* EVENT: member 98 Oñate: 18 AUG 1598 [3228] [3229]
* EVENT: small of stature, gray bearded, having a wart on the left side of the face.
Appearance: 1598 [3230]
[3224] [S2194] ONMF, p. 112

[3225] [S2194] ONMF, p. 112

[3226] [S2200] ORIGINS OF NM FAMILIES

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[3227] [S2200] ORIGINS OF NM FAMILIES

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[3228] [S2200] ORIGINS OF NM FAMILIES

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[3229] [S2162] New Mexico's First Colonists

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[3230] [S2200] ORIGINS OF NM FAMILIES

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[113663] [S2200] ORIGINS OF NM FAMILIES

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Juan and his family were a members of Don de Oñate party that came to settle New Mexico in 1598.

He was listed as 40 years old, the son of Simón Pérez and a native of Mexico City. He was described as small in stature, gray-bearded and having a wart on the left side of his face. With him came his wife, two sons and seven daughters. One son, Simón, was listed as a soldier.

Juan's wife was María de la Cruz. Both Juan and his wife were living in 1626. Besides Simón, they had another son named Diego. Dieg adopted the surname of Santa Crus. Their known daughters were Ana, fifty in 1631 and married to Asencio de Arechuleta; Yuma, who was forty in 1631, and married to Antonio Baca; Beatriz, who was thirty-eight in 1631 and married to Alonso Varela. ~The Origins of New México Families, pg. 87

Oñate lead a party into Kansas to search for the legendary Gran Quivara. Upon his return, he found that 400 colonists had deserted San Gabriel, the Spanish colony begun by the Oñate party. Those who remained were considered loyalists, and stayed on to raise their families in New Mexico. Juan was among the Loyalists who stayed in New Mexico. ~New México's First Colonie

  Was Member of 1598 Ornate Expedition into New Mexico. Appearence in 1598 small of stature, gray bearded wart on left side of face.

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He and his wife are said to have been a possible source of a hereditary disorder called El Frio, or Common Hispanic Mutation, a form of cerebral cavernomia (CCM)

https://www.npr.org/2013/08/20/213728245/researchers-use-genetic-hi...