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Raquel Rivera

Raquel Z. Rivera is an author, researcher, and singer-songwriter from Puerto Rico currently living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was a researcher at the Center of Puerto Rican studies at Hunter College. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and an M.A. in Puerto Rican Studies from the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Fernando Pacheco de Matos

Don Fernando Pacheco de Matos (c. 1713-1768) was Teniente a Guerra of the town of Yauco. Born to Capitán de Infantería Española Don Domingo Pacheco de Matos and María Bernardina de Torres y Figueroa, Fernando reached the rank of Ayudante (aid-de-camp) before bring sent as a representative for the town of Yauco in 1755. He died April 17, 1768 in Yauco.

He married first to Doña Isabel de Torres and had:


 * Antonio Pacheco de Matos y Torres (c. 1733-1777)
 * Luis Pacheco de Matos y Torres (c. 1728-1808)
 * Domingo Pacheco de Matos y Torres (c. 1746-1821)
 * Isabel Pacheco de Matos y Torres

He married second to Doña María de Quiñones y Torres and had:


 * Catarina Pacheco de Matos y Quiñones (1751-1795)
 * María Pacheco de Matos y Quiñones (1754)
 * Luisa Pacheco de Matos y Quiñones (1756-1759)
 * José Fernando Pacheco de Matos y Quiñones (1759)
 * Marcelo Pacheco de Matos y Quiñones (1762-1783)
 * Antonio Pacheco de Matos y Quiñones (1764-1846)
 * Juana Pacheco de Matos y Quiñones (1768-1824)

Fernando and his wife María de Quiñones held the most slaves in Yauco from 1751 through 1790 with over twenty slaves bring owned by the couple. Some of these slaves included:


 * Isabel (died April 16, 1787 a free slave of Doña María de Quiñones)
 * Ana (July 22, 1751-October 19, 1824)
 * Clara (August 10, 1755-August 16, 1755)


 * Luciana
 * Policarpio (March 1755-April 12, 1755)


 * Silveria
 * Paula (born July 17, 1752 in Sitio de la Zarza)
 * Alonso (born September 3, 1755 in Sitio de la Zarza)

Fernando was the godfather of several children related through the de Torres y Figueroa family.
 * Juan Pacheco married Juana de la Candelaria (a free woman)
 * Sebastiana Pacheco y de la Candelaria (born February 1, 1752 in Sitio de la Zarza)
 * Gregorio Pacheco (born December 26, 1793)
 * Domingo Pacheco y de la Candelaria (born May 12, 1753 in Sitio de la Zarza)
 * Juana Pacheco y de la Candelaria (born November 15, 1754 in Sitio de la Zarza)
 * María Monserrate Pacheco y de la Candelaria (born June 11, 1756 in Sitio del Rio)
 * Patricio Pacheco y de la Candelaria (March 27, 1758, Sitio del Rio)
 * Juana
 * Antonio married Petrona Ortiz (a free woman), daughter of Manuela Ortiz on August 3, 1755.
 * María Monserrate (born June 3, 1758 in Sitio del Rio)
 * Manuel (born May 24, 1752 in Sitio de Yauco)


 * Luciano de Torres y Figueroa, the natural son of Doña Mauricia de Torres y Figueroa.
 * Francisca de Torres y Figueroa, daughter of Manuel de Torres y Figueroa and Mariana de Quiñones.

Tanya Torres Family Tree