Juan "El Portugués" de Farías, Capitán

Alcalde de Almaden 1588, named by Carvajal, and first Alcalde of Monterrey 1604

Juan de FARIAS was born (date unknown).

Spouse: Maria de TREVIÑO. Maria de TREVIÑO and Juan de FARIAS74 were married about 1575. Children were: Juliana de QUINTANILLA, Sebastiana Quintanilla TREVIÑO, Capt. Juan de FARIAS, 2nd Lt. Alonso de FARIAS, _______ TREVIÑO, Martin SANCHEZ.

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IRUELA, LUIS ROMERA, and Ma. del CARMEN GALBIS DIEZ. Catalogo de Pasajeros a Indias Durante los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII. (Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla.) Seville, Spain: Ministerio de Cultura. Vol. 4 (1560-1566). 1980, page 560. ... Name: Juan Farias; Year: 1566; Place: New Spain … [Date of application for emigration with intended destination. Continuation of nos. 8870-8872, indexed in PILI 1985 and 1989. For further volumes, see nos. 1623.1-1623.2 above. Extracted from documents in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville.]

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Duaine, Carl. With All Arms, 1987, page 116. ... "Juan de Farias, Portuguese, was named as official at Almaden in 1588. He was an official in Monterrey in 1604. He may have been the man of the same name with the Espejo expedition."

La Hacienda de San Nicolas de los Berros was initially granted to Alberto del CANTO; later one portion went to Don Francisco MARTINEZ GUAJARDO and another to Don Juan de FARIAS.