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APPENDIX I

Map 5 illustrates the spatial distribution of the residences of six groups of kin, based on the 1759 household census. Additional information about these selected kin groups and details of the composition of the individual households are provided here.

The six groups are further subdivided into sets; here a "set" of kin is defined as the parents, the children, the siblings, and the children of those siblings, of both husband and wife (or widower or widow) who are heads of the initial household. The patterns shown in Map 4 are centered on the principal households, and each principal household typically has two sets of kin, one for the male head and one for the female head (although the simple principal household of Group Three has but one head and thus one set of kin, while the complex principal household of Group Two has four heads of household and thus four sets). Other than providing a starting point for the analysis, the principal household designation has no particular significance among the several households in each set.

The six groups were chosen from the many that could have been presented for two reasons. First, these surnames appear often in the text (Liendo, Blanco, Tovar, Ponte, Mijares); and second, most of the heads of household in these groups were mature but not aged adults in 1759. By selecting groups of siblings who were at midrange in the life cycle in 1759, who were no longer children but not yet grandparents, a maximum distribution of siblings in distinct households was expected. Younger sets of siblings would find many of them still at home with their parents, and sets of older siblings would find many of them already dead in 1759. If an individual died before the 1759 census but was survived by a widow or widower (with or without children) who was alive in 1759, that individual's household is included here. The thirty-two distinct households that make up the residences of the six sets of kin (some


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households belonged to more than one set) are but a portion of the eighty-five elite households analyzed in chapter 7.

Birth, death, and marriage dates are given when they are known; children are designated by age when known or by the designation párvulo taken from the census. (In canonical terms párvulos had not reached age of reason, which is to say they were not yet ready to be admitted to communion and confession. Ideally this occurred at age seven, but priests probably judged individuals on a case basis.) The term children refers to the offspring of the household head or heads. Occasionally these "children" were adults in 1759.

In certain complex households the census taker observed what were described as distinct families ("otra familia en esta casa "). This distinction has been noted here.

Group One

Household 1.1: (RADA LIENDO-LIENDO BLANCO)

Cuadra: "Santíssimos Nombres de Jesús y María"

Location: 2nd blk. north of Cathedral

     Heads: RADA LIENDO, Fernando                b.1697    d.1769

          LIENDO BLANCO, Josefa Clara      b.1700    d.1785

     Marriage date: 1738. These spouses were first cousins.

     Children at home: 4, ages 15 to 26

     Other kin in home: PONTE LIENDO, Josefa. Sister of Fernando Rada's first wife

     Slaves: 15

     Libres: 0

Household 1.2: (LIENDO BLANCO, sister of head hshld. 1.1)

Cuadra: "Nuestra Señora de la Piedad"

Location: 1st blk. east, 2nd blk. north of Cathedral

     Heads: LIENDO BLANCO, Ana María         b.1716    d.1791

          PLAZA BLANCO, Florencio             b.1713    d. (?)

     Marriage date: 1749. These spouses were first cousins.

     Children at home: 6, for párvulos, others 12 and 13

     Other kin at home: none

     Slaves: 9

     Libres: 5


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Household 1.3: (LIENDO BLANCO, sister of head hshld. 1.1)

Cuadra: "Los Corazones de Jesús y María"

Location: 2nd blk. west of Cathedral

     Heads: LIENDO BLANCO, Josefa Antonia          b.1706    d.1767

          GALINDO TOVAR, Domingo                  b.1692    d.1757

     Marriage date: unknown. Josefa Liendo was a widow in 1759.

     Children at home: 4, ages 16 to 26, all unmarried

     Other kin at home: none

     Slaves: 18

     Libres: 2

Household 1.4: (LIENDO BLANCO, brother of head hshld. 1.1)

Cuadra: "Santíssimo Nombres de Jesús y María"

Location: 2nd blk. north of Cathedral

     Heads: LIENDO BLANCO, Silvestre              b.(?)        d.1750

          PLAZA BLANCO, María Josefa         b.1711    d.1786

     Marriage date: 1746. María Plaza was a widow in 1759; these spouses were first cousins.

     Children at home: 1, age unknown, unmarried in 1759

     Other kin at home: PLAZA BLANCO, Josefa. Sister of María

     Plaza

     Slaves: 11

     Libres: 0

Household 1.5: (LIENDO BLANCO, sister of head hshld. 1.1)

Cuadra: "Nuestra Señora de los Mártires" (Altagracia parish)

Location: 2nd blk. north, 1st blk. east of Cathedral

     HEADS: LIENDO BLANCO, Paula María          b. (?)       d.1759

          ARIAS BLANCO, Luis Felipe                 b.1701    d.1752

     Marriage date: 1738. Paula Liendo was a widow in 1759.

     Children at home: 6, none párvulo, all unmarried in 1759

     Other kin at home: Catalina Arias, sister of deceased Luis Arias; she would never marry (b.1702 d.1767).

     Slaves: 17

     Libres: 0

Group One notes: The male head of household 1.1, Fernando Rada Liendo, had no living siblings in 1759. One other Liendo Blanco sibling is known, Antonio Liendo, who died in 1761, but he was not located in the 1759 Caracas census.


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Group Two

Household 2.1: (PACHECO MIJARES-TOVAR BLANCO and PACHECO MIJARES-MIJARES ASCANIO)

Cuadra: "Los Corazones de Jesús y María"

Location: 2nd blk. west of Cathedral

First family

     Heads: PACHECO MIJARES, Juan Jacinto         b. (?)       d. (?) (II Conde de San Javier)

          TOVAR BLANCO, Melchora Ana          b.1729    d.1764

     Marriage date: 1741

     Children at home: 2, both párvulos

Other kin at home: the Conde de San Javier lived with his wife and family in this house together with his sister and her husband and children who are given in the following family. Also listed as belonging to the Conde's family are 5 Pacheco nephews. They are the children of his brother Antonio Pacheco Mijares (uncertain whether he was alive in 1759) and María Toro Istúriz, who died in 1753.

     Others: agregado Félix Rojas, presbítero

     Slaves: 9

     Libras: 1

Second family

     Heads: PACHECO MIJARES, Juana                b. (?)       d. (?)

          MIJARES ASCANIO, Francisco          b.1707    d.1776

     Marriage date: 1737. These spouses were first cousins.

     Children at home: 7, ages 1 to 20, all unmarried

     Other kin at home: those described in the first family in this same household

     Slaves: 25

     Libres: 5

Household 2.2: (TOVAR BLANCO, sibling, and BLANCO MARTINEZ, mother of head hshld. 2.1)

Cuadra: "Nuestra Señor del Buen Consejo"

Location: 3rd blk. west of Cathedral

First family

     Heads: TOVAR BLANCO, Martin                      b.1726    d.1811 (to become I Conde de Tovar in 1771)

          PONTE MIJARES, María Manuela         b. (?)       d.1814

     Marriage date: 1758


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Second family

     Heads: BLANCO MARTINEZ, Catarina             b.1700    d.1767

          TOVAR GALINDO, José Manuel           b.1693    d.1759

     Marriage date: 1721. Catarina Blanco was a widow in 1759. She was the mother of the Tovar Blanco siblings in this household and in household 2.1

     Children at home: 1, Sebastiana Tovar Blanco, age 27

     Other kin at home: none

     Slaves: 29

     Libres: 2

Household 2.3: (MIJARES ASCANIO, brothers of head hshld. 2.1)

Cuadra: "Los Corazones de Jesús y María"

Location: 2nd blk. west of Cathedral

     Heads: MIJARES ASCANIO, Juan Ignacio          b.1705    d.1770

          TOVAR BLANCO, Luisa María               b.1702    d.1786

     Marriage date: 1738

     Children at home: 7, ages 2 to 19, all unmarried

     Other kin at home: Joseph Gabriel Mijares Ponte, half-brother to Mijares Ascanio siblings (b.1722 d.1792)

     Slaves: 15

     Libres: 2

Household 2.4: (MIJARES ASCANIO, brother of head hshld. 2.1)

Cuadra: "Dulce Nombre de María"

Location: 1st blk. south of Cathedral

     Heads: PONTE VILLEGAS, Lorenzo                   b.1682    d.1759

          MIJARES TOVAR, Josefa Teresa             b.1691    d.1765

     Marriage date: 1711. This elderly couple were parents to the wife of Pedro José Mijares Ascanio, the Mijares sibling of interest here. Several other adult children of the aged couple lived with them in this household, some with their spouses and children, but these other Ponte Mijares siblings were not distinguished as separate families in the census. On the basis of its composition, reinforced by the census takers' sense that there was but one large family here, this is the only three-generation stem household in Caracas in 1759. This household is fully described in Group Six, household 6.3


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     Heads: PONTE MIJARES, Cecilia Teresa             b.1721    d.1805

          MIJARES ASCANIO, Pedro José             b.1713    d.1788

     Marriage date: 1742. These spouses were first cousins.

     Children at home: 8, ages 1 to 16, all unmarried

     Other kin at home: parents/grandparents Ponte and Mijares, uncles and aunts Ponte Mijares, their spouses and children

     Slaves: 34 (entire household)

     Libres: 5

     Indians: 2

Household 2.5: (MIJARES ASCANIO, sister of head hshld. 2.1)

Cuadra: "La Visitación de Nuestra Señora"

Location 1st blk. west, 2nd blk. north of Cathedral

     Heads: MIJARES TOVAR, Francisco             b.1693    d.1764

          MIJARES ASCANIO, María              b.1719    d.1750

     Marriage date: 1736. These spouses were first cousins; Francisco

     Mijares was a widower in 1759.

     Children at home: 4, ages 9 to 19, all unmarried

     Other kin at home: none

     Others: agregado Alonso Pacheco, presbítero

     Slaves: 19

     Libres: 11

Household 2.6: (MIJARES ASCANIO, sister of head hshld. 2.1)

Cuadra: "Los Desposarios de Nuestro Señor"

Location: 2nd blk. west, 1st blk. north of Cathedral

     Heads: MIJARES ASCANIO, Melchora            b.1712    d.1780

          PONTE MIJARES, Juan Antonio            b.1713    d.1787

     Marriage date: 1736. These spouses were first cousins.

     Children at home: 2, Lorenzo Agustín and José Ignacio Ponte

     Mijares, adult sons in their twenties, exact ages unknown

     Other kin at home: none

     Slaves: 7

     Libres: 5

Group Two notes: The center or principal source of this kindred in 1759 was the elderly couple who were heads of household 2.4. Lorenzo Ponte Villegas and Josefa Mijares Tovar were grandparents to Maria Ponte Mijares, the wife of Martin Tovar, in household


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2.2, and they were the parents of the Ponte Mijares siblings in households 2.2 and 2.4. Without doubt Josefa Mijares was the matriarch of all those named Mijares in this group. The spouses who were first cousins (heads of households 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6) were related to each other through her (as mother: the Ponte Mijares; and as aunt: the Pacheco Mijares, the Mijares Ascanio, and the Mijares Tovar). She was the aunt of both Francisco Nicolás Mijares Tovar, the third Marqués de Mijares, and Juan Jacinto Pacheco Mijares, the second Conde de San Javier. By 1760, she was, at age 69, the oldest living blood relative of all these people.

Group Three

Household 3.1: (HERRERA MESONES)

Cuadra: "Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Zaragosa"

Location: same blk. south and 1st blk. east of Cathedral

     Head: HERRERA MESONES, Carlosb.1705  d.1761

Carlos Herrera was canon and treasurer of the Caracas cathedral. He lived in this house, most probably located on the same block, perhaps attached to the cathedral, with six of his sisters. These were all adult, unmarried women.

     Other kin at home:

          HERRERA MESONES, María Rosa        b.1696    d.1764

          HERRERA MESONES, Juana Rosa         b.1706    d.1770

          HERRERA MESONES, Nicolasa             b.1709    d.1788

          HERRERA MESONES, Francisca            b.1703    d.1768

          HERRERA MESONES, Manuela             b.1701    d.1779

          HERRERA MESONES, Isabel                 b.1707    d.1768

     Slaves: 31

     Libres: 5

Household 3.2: (HERRERA MESONES, brother of head hshld. 3.1)

Cuadra: "Nuestra Señora de Belem"

Location: 1st blk. east, 1st blk. north of Cathedral

     Heads: HERRERA MESONES, Juan Manuel         b.1712    d.1767

          RADA SOTO, Ana María                          b.(?)        d.1768

     Marriage date: 1743

     Children at home: 5, two párvulos, others to age 14


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     Other kin at home: none

     Slaves: 13

     Libres: 1

Household 3.3: (HERRERA MESONES, brother of head hshld. 3.1)

Cuadra: "Nuestra Señora de Atocha"

Location: 2nd blk. east, same north—south level as Cathedral

     Heads: HERRERA MESONES, Agustín               b.1715    d.1767

          SUAREZ BOLIVAR, Catalina                  b.(?)        d.(?)

     Marriage date: 1741

     Children at home: 6, three párvulos, others to age 13

     Other kin at home: none

     Slaves: 14

     Libres: 0

Group Four

Household 4.1: (BLANCO URIBE-BLANCO MARTINEZ)

Cuadra: "Santíssimos Nombres de Jesús y María"

Location: 2nd blk. north of Cathedral

     Heads: BLANCO URIBE, Miguel Ignacio             b.1699    d.1769

          BLANCO MARTINEZ, Francisca            b.1705    d.1770

     Marriage date: 1734

     Children at home: 6, ages uncertain. Four will marry in the 1760s.

     Other kin at home: none

     Slaves: 22

     Libres: 3

Household 4.2: (BLANCO URIBE, sisters of head hshld. 4.1)

Cuadra: "Nuestra Señora de la Luz"

Location: facing the plaza on its west side, opposite the Cathedral.

The census taker organized this household into five "families," although four of them contained only single individuals (not counting slaves and libres) who were unmarried sisters. The fifth "family" was comprised of another widowed sister and her daughter. The census taker's division is followed here.


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First family

     Head: BOLIVAR URIBE, Juana María  b.1692 d.(?) This single woman was half-sister to Miguel Blanco Uribe, head of hshld. 4.1, and half-sister to the Blanco Uribe women in this household.

     Slaves: 4

     Libres: 0

Second family

     Head: BLANCO URIBE, Isabel Antonia            b.1709    d.1775

     Slaves: 5

     Libres: 0

Third family

     Head: BLANCO URIBE, María Josefa             b.1713    d.1761

     Slaves: 9

     Libres: 0

Fourth family

     Head: BLANCO URIBE, Adriana               b.1716    d.(?)

     Slaves: 7

     Libres: 7

Fifth family

     Heads: BLANCO URIBE, Isabel                   b.1709    d.1775

          BLANCO VASQUEZ, Pedro            b.1700    d.1750

     Marriage date: 1733. These spouses were first cousins; Isabel Blanco was a widow in 1759.

     Children at home: 1, Luisa Blanco Blanco, age unknown

     Slaves: 4

     Libres: 0

Household 4.3: (BLANCO URIBE, brother to head hshld. 4.1)

Cuadra: "Nuestra Señora del Carmen"

Location: 1st blk. north, 2nd blk. west of Cathedral

     Heads: BLANCO URIBE, Antonio               b.1711    d.1761

          PONTE GALINDO, Maria               b.1714    d.1789

     Marriage date:?

     Children at home: 5, two párvulos, other ages unknown

     Other kin at home: no

     Slaves: 8

     Libres: 4


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Household 4.4: (BLANCO URIBE, brother to head hshld. 4.1)

Cuadra: "Madre de Díos"

Location: 1st blk. north of Cathedral

     Heads: BLANCO URIBE, Cornelio              b. (?)    d.1760

          BLANCO PONTE, Francisca           b. (?)    d.1769

     Marriage date: 1744. Cornelio Blanco's first wife died in 1739; some of his children by this first marriage lived in this household.

     Children at home: 5, one párvulo, others of uncertain age

     Other kin at home: none

     Slaves: 8

     Libres: 1

Household 4.5: (BLANCO URIBE, brother to head hshld. 4.1)

Cuadra: "Nuestra Señora del Olvido"

Location: 1st blk. south, 3rd blk. west of Cathedral

     Heads: BLANCO URIBE, Manuel               b.1702    d. (?)

          PONCE BARBOZA, María             b. (?)       d. (?)

     Marriage date: 1733. María Ponce was a widow in 1759.

     Children at home: 5, unmarried adult children of uncertain age

     Other kin at home/Others: four other "families" of single women (surnamed Barboza and Ponte but with no clear links to the principals here), each with her slaves, also lived in this household.

     Slaves: 18

     Libres: 3

Household 4.6: (BLANCO MARTÍNEZ, sister to head hshld. 4.1)

Cuadra: "Nuestra Señora del Buen Consejo"

Location: 3rd blk. west of Cathedral

     Heads: BLANCO MARTÍNEZ, Catarina               b.1700    d.1767

          TOVAR GALINDO, José Manuel              b.1693    d.1759

     Marriage date: 1721. Catarina Blanco was a widow in 1759.

     Children at home: 1, Sebastiana Tovar Blanco, age 27

     Other kin at home: none

     Slaves: 29

     Libres: 2

Household 4.7: (BLANCO MARTÍNEZ, sister to head hshld. 4.1)

Cuadra: "Madre de Diós"

Location: 1st blk. north of Cathedral


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     Heads: BLANCO MARTÍNEZ, Mariana                    b.1711    d.1783

          MONASTERIOS BLANCO, Miguel              b.1706    d. (?)

     Marriage date: 1729. These spouses were first cousins.

     Children at home: 4, one párvulo, others of uncertain age

     Other kin at home: 2 nieces of Mariana Blanco, the daughters of her deceased sister; 1 nephew of Miguel Monasterios, the son of his deceased brother

     Slaves: 8

     Libres: 6

Household 4.8: (BLANCO MARTÍNEZ, brothers/sister to head hshld. 4.1)

Cuadra: "Los Desposarios de Nuestro Señor"

Location: 2nd blk. west, 1st blk. north of Cathedral

There were three families in this household, all three headed by Blanco Martínez siblings, two of them widowers, the third a widow.

First family

     Heads: BLANCO MARTÍNEZ, Cecilia                          b.1709    d.1772

          MONASTERIOS BLANCO, Bartolomé            b.1704    d.1750

     Marriage date: 1728. These spouses were first cousins; Cecilia Blanco was a widow in 1759.

     Children at home: 4, eldest aged 30, others of uncertain age

     Other kin at home: none

     Slaves: 8

     Libres: 2

Second family

     Heads: BLANCO MARTÍNEZ, Manuel                    b.1703    d.1776

          MONASTERIOS BLANCO, María              b.1703    d.1740

     Marriage date: 1723. These spouses were first cousins; Manuel Blanco was a widower in 1759.

     Children at home: 5, of uncertain age

     Slaves: 4

     Libres: 4

Third family

     Heads: BLANCO MARTÍNEZ, Miguel             b. (?)       d.1774

          PONTE MIJARES, Luisa María            b.1727    d.1756

     Marriage date: 1750. Migurel Blanco was a widower in 1759.

     Children at home: 3, two párvulos, other young child


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     Other kin at home: 4 nephews of Miguel Blanco, sons of his deceased brother

     Slaves: 9

     Libres: 4

Group Five

Household 5.1: (BLANCO PONTE–PLAZA BLANCO)

Cuadra: "Nuestra Señora del Milagro"

Location: 1st blk. north, 3rd blk. west

     Heads: BLANCO PONTE, Mateo Alejandro            b.1711    d.1780

          PLAZA BLANCO, Petronila                         b.1725    d.1767

     Marriage date: 1747. These spouses were first cousins.

     Children at home: 8, four párvulos, others older

     Other kin at home: none

     Slaves: 10

     Libres: 2

Household 5.2: (BLANCO PONTE, brother of head of hshld. 5.1)

Cuadra: "Nuestra Señora de Loreto"

Location: 1st blk. south, 1st blk. east of Cathedral

     Heads: BLANCO PONTE, Alejandro Pío             b.1714    d.1792

          BLANCO HERRERA, Rosa                     b. (?)       d.1803

     Marriage date: 1747. These spouses were first cousins.

     Children at home: 5, four are párvulos

     Other kin at home: none

     Slaves: 8

     Libres: 1

Household 5.3: (BLANCO PONTE, brother of head of hshld. 5.1)

Cuadra: "Nuestra Señora de la Pureza"

Location: 1st blk. north, 1st blk. east of Cathedral

     Heads: BLANCO PONTE, Pedro José            b.1701    d.1761

          PLAZA BLANCO, Juana                     b.1716    d.1787

     Marriage date: 1738. These spouses were first cousins.

     Children at home: 6, two are párvulos, others of uncertain age

     Other kin at home: none


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     Slaves: 14

     Libres: 0

Household 5.4: (BLANCO PONTE, sisters of head of hshld. 5.1)

Cuadra: "Nuestra Señora de Guia"

Location: 1st blk. west, 1st blk. north of Cathedral

     Head: BLANCO PONTE, Josefa María             b.1716    d.1761

     Other kin at home (sister of Josefa Blanco Ponte): BLANCO PONTE, Isabel  b.1709 d.1776

     Additonal kin at home: Diego Blanco Plaza, nephew to Josefa and Isabel Blanco Ponte, son of their brother, Pedro José Blanco Ponte, resident in hshld. 5.3.

     Slaves: 18

     Libres: 0

Household 5.5: (PLAZA BLANCO, brother of head of hshld. 5.1)

Cuadra: "Nuestra Señora de la Piedad"

Location: 1st blk. east and 2nd blk. north of Cathedral

     Heads: PLAZA BLANCO, Florencio José  b.1713 d. (?)

          LIENDO BLANCO, Ana María  b.1716 d.1798

     Marriage date: 1749. These spouses were first cousins.

     Children at home: 6, four párvulos, the others 13 and 14

     Other kin at home: none

     Slaves: 11

     Libres: 5

Household 5.6: (PLAZA BLANCO, brother of head of hshld. 5.1)

Cuadra: "Santíssimos Nombres de Jesús y María"

Location: 2nd blk. north of Cathedral

     Head: PLAZA BLANCO, Manuel          b.1722    d.1791

     Other kin at home: none

     Other: 2 officers of royal batallion

     Slaves: 3

     Libres: 13

Household 5.7: (PLAZA BLANCO, sister of head of hshld. 5.1)

This household was already given in this group as household 5.3, part of the Blanco Ponte sibling set; it is given again here as part of the Plaza Blanco set.


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Cuadra: "Nuestra Señora de la Pureza"

Location: 1st blk. north, 1st blk. east of Cathedral

     Heads: PLAZA BLANCO, Juana                      b.1716    d.1787

          BLANCO PONTE, Pedro José             b.1701    d.1761

     Marriage date: 1738. These spouses were first cousins.

     Children at home: 6, two are párvulos, others of uncertain age

     Other kin at home: none

     Slaves: 14

     Libres: o

Household 5.8: (PLAZA BLANCO, brother of head of hshld. 5.1)

Cuadra: "Nuestra Señora de Monserrate" (Altagracia parish)

Location: 2nd blk. north, 1st blk. west of Cathedral

The primary head of this household was the widowed mother of the wife of Mateo Plaza. The common division into several families was not made in this case, which suggests that in this household Mateo Plaza had secondary authority to his mother-in-law, in whose house he had come to live.

     Heads: ARIAS BLANCO, María Teresa            b.1699    d.1770

          BOLIVAR AGUIRRE, José                   b.1693    d.1758

     Marriage date: (?) María Arias was a widow in 1759.

     Children at home: 7; 6 unmarried adults and Josefa Bolívar.

     Other kin at home: BOLIVAR ARIAS, Josefa           b. (?)       d.1779

                      PLAZA BLANCO, Mateo           b.1720    d.1784

     Marriage date: 1749

     Children at home: 4, all párvulos

     Slaves: 15 (entire household)

     Libres: 3

Group Six

Household 6.1: (PONTE MIJARES-MIJARES ASCANIO)

Cuadra: "Los Desposarios de Nuestro Señor"

Location: 2nd blk. west, 1st blk. north of Cathedral

     Heads: PONTE MIJARES, Juan Nicolás            b.1713    d.1787

          MIJARES ASCANIO, Melchora            b.1712    d.1780

     Marriage date: 1736. These spouses were first cousins.

     Children at home: 2 adult sons.

     Other kin at home: none


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     Slaves: 7

     Libres: 5

Household 6.2: (PONTE MIJARES, sister of head hshld. 6.1)

Cuadra: "Los Desposarios de Nuestro Señor"

Location: 2nd blk. west, 1st blk. north of Cathedral

There were three families in this household, all three headed by Blanco Martínez siblings, two of them widowers, the third a widow. Luisa María Ponte Mijares, deceased, had been the wife of Miguel Blanco Martínez. Only this family is given here; the entire household is described in Group Four, household 4.8.

     Heads: BLANCO MARTÍNEZ, Miguel             b.(?)        d.1774

          PONTE MIJARES, Luisa María            b.1727    d.1756

     Marriage date: 1750. Miguel Blanco was a widower in 1759.

     Children at home: 3, two párvulos, other young child

     Other kin at home (in this family): 4 nephews of Miguel Blanco, sons of his deceased brother. Two other families in this household, headed by the siblings of Miguel Blanco, are given in Group Four, household 4.8.

     Slaves: 9

     Libres: 4

Household 6.3: (PONTE MIJARES, parents/siblings of head hshld. 6.1)

Cuadra: "Dulce Nombre de María"

Location: 1st blk. south of Cathedral

First family

     Heads: PONTE VILLEGAS, Lorenzo                   b.1682    d.1759

          MIJARES TOVAR, Josefa Teresa             b.1691    d.1765

Marriage date: 1711. This elderly couple were the parents of Juan Nicolás Ponte, head of household 6.1. They lived here with all their remaining offspring, including both their single and married children and their grandchildren, as well as other kin. This was the only three-generation, stem household of Caracas elites in 1759. The married children were not identified as separate families, but the two (also elderly) sisters of Lorenzo Ponte Villegas who also lived here were considered to comprised a "family" of their own.

Children at home: 8; 6 single adults, 2 married with children of their own, as follows. These married children and their children


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were not identified as separate families in the 1759 census, nor were there any slaves or libres identified to them specifically:

     PONTE MIJARES, Antonio José                b.1723    d.1770

     BLANCO MONASTERIOS, Luisa             b. (?)       d.1786

     Marriage date: 1751

     Children (grandchildren of heads of hshld.) at home: 2 párvulos.

     PONTE MIJARES, Cecilia Teresa               b.1721    d.1805

     MIJARES ASCANIO, Pedro José               b.1713    d.1788

     Marriage date: 1742. These spouses were first cousins.

     Children (grandchildren of heads of hshld.) at home: 8, ages 1 to 16, all unmarried

     Other kin at home: 2 granddaughters (Blanco Ponte) of the heads of hshld. They were orphaned by the death of their mother (María Teresa Ponte Mijares) in 1757; their father (Alejandro Blanco Martínez) had died in 1754.

     Slaves: 34 (entire first family)

     Libres: 5

Second family

     Heads: PONTE MARTÍNEZ, Luisa Isabel           b.1681    d.1773

          PONTE MARTÍNEZ, María                    b.1696    d.1763

These women were sisters of head of hshld. Lorenzo Ponte. Luisa Ponte never married. María Ponte had married Lorenzo Sedeño in 1733, but was a widow without children by 1759.

     Slaves: 23

     Libres: 5

Household 6.4: (MIJARES ASCANIO, brothers of head hshld. 6.1)

Cuadra: "Los Corazones de Jesús y María"

Location: 2nd blk. west of Cathedral

     Heads: MIJARES ASCANIO, Juan Ignacio           b.1705    d.1770

          TOVAR BLANCO, Luisa María                b.1702    d.1786

     Marriage date: 1738

     Children at home: 7, ages 2 to 19, all unmarried

     Other kin at home: Joseph Gabriel Mijares Ponte, half-brother to Mijares Ascanio siblings (b.1722 d.1792)

     Slaves: 15

     Libres: 2


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Household 6.5: (MIJARES ASCANIO, brother of head hshld. 6.1)

Cuadra: "Dulce Nombre de María"

Location: 1st blk. south of Cathedral

This household was described above in this group, hshld. 6.3, as part of the Ponte Mijares sibling set. It is repeated here because a Mijares Ascanio sibling also lived in it.

     Heads: PONTE VILLEGAS, Lorenzo                   b.1682    d.1759

          MIJARES TOVAR, Josefa Teresa             b.1691    d.1765

     Marriage date: 1711. This elderly couple were parents to the wife of Pedro José Mijares Ascanio, the Mijares sibling of interest here.

     PONTE MIJARES, Cecilia Teresa b.1721  d.1805

     MIJARES ASCANIO, Pedro José b.1713  d.1788

     Marriage date: 1742. These spouses were first cousins.

     Children at home: 8, ages 1 to 16, all unmarried.

     Other kin at home: parents/grandparents Ponte and Mijares, uncles and aunts Ponte Mijares, their spouses and children

     Slaves: 34 (entire household)

     Libres: 5

     Indians: 2

Household 6.6: (MIJARES ASCANIO, sister of head hshld. 6.1)

Cuadra: "La Visitación de Nuestra Señora"

Location: 1st blk. west, 2nd blk. north of Cathedral

     Heads: MIJARES TOVAR, Francisco            b.1693    d.1764

          MIJARES ASCANIO, María             b.1719    d.1750

     Marriage date: 1736. These spouses were first cousins; Francisco Mijares was a widower in 1759.

     Children at home: 4, ages 9 to 19, all unmarried

     Other kin at home: none

     Others: agregado Alonso Pacheco, presbítero

     Slaves: 19

     Libres: 11

Household 6.7: (MIJARES ASCANIO, brother to head hshld. 6.1)

Cuadra: "Los Corazones de Jesús y María"

Location: 2nd blk. west of Cathedral

     Heads: PACHECO MIJARES, Juana                 b. (?)       d. (?)

          MIJARES ASCANIO, Francisco            b.1707    d.1776


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     Marriage date: 1737. These spouses were first cousins.

     Children at home: 7, ages 1 to 20, all unmarried

     Other kin at home: this is the second family in the household headed by the II Conde de San Javier. Juana Pacheco was the sister of the Conde. This household is fully described in Group Two, hshld. 2.2.

     Slaves: 25

     Libres: 5


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