1st Authentic Pilgrams of the USA

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The First Authentic Pilgrims of the
United States of America

Early 1500's. The Original Pilgrims spoke the Spanish language, and their descendants continue to speak the Spanish language today in the United States of America. Almost 100 years before Jamestown, many of the Original Spanish speaking Pilgrims colonized several areas of the present United States of America. They founded cities across our country, from Florida, and the Carolinas and Virginia area, across to the southwestern area of the present USA.

Early 1500's- One of the first Europeans to live in and study the interior of what is now the United States of America was the famous explorer, Alvar Nuñez Cabéz de Vacá; another was Captain Alfonso de Castillo. Cabéz de Vacá has many descendants, some are the New Mexico Colonial families and later in the 1800's founded several Arizona cities, they are the Arizona Pioneers, click on Maria de San Juan; Marcos Baca de Padilla who is a direct descendant of Cabeza de Vaca.

1521 - Gordillo and Quexos explore Atlantic coast to Cape Hatteras (off North Carolina)

1523 - Esteban Gomes scouts North American coast from Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia is east of Main, the most northern part of the eastern USA ), and to the most southern of theUSA Florida.

1525 - Estaban Gomes - Explores from Cape Charles to Cape Code and the Hudson, Delaware and the Connecticut rivers (most northern NE USA & up into Canada.)

1526 -The earliest European settlement was by Hispanics, San Miguel de Gualdape, founded by Spain.

1565 - St. Augustine, Florida founded by Spain.

1570-72 - Father Segura establishes Mission in Chesapeake bay area (thats between New York City & our nations capitol Washington D.C.)

1598 - After many tribulations suffered by the colony, Spanish New Mexico
was finally founded in 1598.

The First "Pilgrim" families of the United States of America were Spanish
speaking and were from the Virginia, the Carolinas, Florida, and the New
Mexico Oñate families: All were founded by Spain.

* The Oñate Families *

*Abendano, Archuleta, Baca, Barrios, Bernal, Bustillo, Caceres, Cadimo, Carvajal, Chaves, Cruz, Duran, Escarramad, Garcia, Holgado, Godoy, Gonzalez, Gonzalez, Jaramillo, Lobon, Griego, Gutierrez, Hernandez, Herrera, Hinojos, Holguin, Hurtado, Jimenez, Jorge, Holguin, Lopez, Luna, Mederos, Ocanto, Losada, Lucero, Madrid, Marquez, Martin, Serrano, Monroy, Montoya, Moran, Naranjo, Pedraza, Perez, Ramirez, del Rio, Robledo, Rodriguez, Salazar, Romero, Ruiz, Tapia, Torres, Varela, Vasquez

1540 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, this expedition was to be the last Entrada to the United States of America; the expedition also had three Hispanic women: included in the expedition

*Francisca de Hozes (wife of the shoemaker),

*Maria Maldonado (was expeditions nurse)

* and the natural wife of Lope Caballero.*

1598 - Juan de Vitoria Carvajal, came as an Alferez under Onate in 1598. He was thirty-seven years old, the son of Juan de Carvajal, and a native of the town of Ayotepel in the Marquisate of the Valley, having a medium stature and a chestnut beard. Onate sent him back to New Spain to bring back reinforcements of 1600. At this time he was a captain, and was described again as before, with the added observation that he was well-featured and had a mark on the right side of the face above the left eye. He was now returning to New Mexico as a member of Onate's war council.

Regarding Food of the Original Pilgrims:

Most of the descendants of the original Pilgrims continue to eat the same as they did about 500 years ago:
Along with the turkey was also the more traditional Indigenous American foods.

Our Indigenous American customs such as foods will be forever preserved in Hispanic homes, foods that are made with Maize, beans, and all the other foods that the original Pilgrims encountered, are repeateded daily in Hispanic homes today, not only one day of the year, Thanksgiving, but everyday of the year.