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

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

     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

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.