Juan de Morales

AGI, Patronato, 75, N.3, R.1 [1539, Mexico, Bernal Díaz del Castillo; 1578, Santiago, witness: Juan de Morales, vecino and encomendero, 45 years old, signed, no signature on copy];

AGN, Instituciones Coloniales, GD61, Inquisición, vol.7, exp.2Bis [fol.9: Proceso contra Juan de Morales natural de la Ciudad Real, vecino de Granada, Nicaragua, for having made “heretical” statements; in May 1567 Morales signs a statement];

AGN, Instituciones Coloniales, GD61, Inquisición, vol.46, exp.14, primera parte [fols. 154-: Proceso contra Juan de Morales, vecino del pueblo de Mitique, por blasfemo, Nueva Galicia; his wife is Leonor de Lara; they were living on an unnamed estancia; in June 1571 a list is made of Morales’ possessions in order to sequester them: casas e heredades con sementeras de maíz; 15 oxen for plowing; 40 carneros cabras; 80 sheep; 50 cattle; one female Indian slave; 450 fanegas de maíz; unas armas de caballo; 2 cajas de ropa (unos de paño de la tierra); 12 mules; 12 mares; 7 or 8 horses; 4 sillas de costillas; 1 mesa de Michoacán; in July Morales is a prisoner in the jail in the pueblo de Mesquitique; in his confisión, Morales testifies that he is a natural de Sevilla; more than 30 years old; vive de tratan en su hacienda [too young to be expeditionary]; his father though is Juan Rodríguez, mother Leonor de Morales [this means he cannot even be the son]; this Morales signed];

AGN, Instituciones Coloniales, GD61, Inquisición, vol.74, exp.20 or 21 [fol.1: Juan de Morales, vecino de Guadalajara, pide licencia para ir a visitar su hacienda y familia; he also claims to have been falsely accused before the santo oficio; the petition is denied Morales signs, same as AGN, Instituciones Coloniales, GD61, Inquisición, vol.46, exp.14];

Acuña, Relaciones Geográficas: Guatemala, Vol. 1. [Santiago de Guatemala: 1572; bishopric report; encomenderos of Cazehuastlán-Juan de Morales and Diego de Salvatierra];

AGI, Patronato, 55, N.6, R.2 [Guatemala, 2 Feb 1579, Probanza of Francisco Diaz del Castillo; witness: Juan de Morales, with Grijalva, Guatemala, age-45, no mention of signing]; 

Juan Andrés de Morales:

AGI, Contaduría, 663A [Mexico City, March 1569, an accounting of condenaciones resulting from procesos in Mexico city, in December 1565 a Juan Andrés de Morales is fined (no reason given)];

Juan de Morales Coronel

AGI, México, 205, N.31 [Probanza de Juan de Manzanilla, August 1559, México; a witness is Juan de Morales Coronel, vecino y conquistador de México, more than 50 years old, can sign but no signature on copy];

AGI, Justicia, 131, N.1 [1540, Bartolomé de Perales contra Antonia Hernández su madre, viuda de Bartolomé de Perales y casada de segunda con Juan Moscoso sobre la encomienda del pueblo de Tultitlan que gozava el difunto Perales,13 Jan 1540-witness in Mexico City, Juan Franco lapidario, age-50 +/-, vecino; Isabel Garcia, wife of a Francisco Rodríguez, vecino; Juan Coronel vecino, 16 Sept 1540, could sign-no signature on copy; Francisco Rodríguez, alcaide of the jail]; 

AGI, Justicia, 1029, N.7, R.5 [Información...a pedimiento de Melchor Suárez y Alonso García. 1562, Puebla; a witness in June, 1561 in the ciudad de los Ángeles is Juan de Morales Coronel, vecino de los Ángeles and conquistador de Nueva España, about 60 years old, came to New Spain and went to the Río de Pánuco with Diego de Camargo; he was in that provincia for about a year until they were attacked by Indians and forced to flee to Veracruz, arriving just after Pánfilo de Narváez had been defeated there; Morales "vivir y estar en esta ciudad [de los Ángleles or México?]" and has a casa poblada; can sign but no signature on copy];

Surname
Morales