Arico: Don Diego de Torres Vera (1654-1712), agricultural owner and second li...

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Member of a prominent saga of Ariquero military and religious men, our biographer felt attracted to the first of these options and was a second lieutenant of the Canary Militias in the Abona-Adeje Regiment, a position in which he remained until his death.

Furthermore, like all of his ancestors and descendants, he was a prominent agricultural owner, which allowed him to enjoy a comfortable economic situation. He lived in the Tamadaya settlement and Email Marketing List had an illustrious succession. He was born in Arico in May 1654, the son of Captain Don Juan García de Vera and Doña María de Morales.



On the 14th of that same month he was baptized in the church of San Juan Bautista by the parish priest Don Bartolomé Hernández Vilar; He was given the name “Diego” and Don Salvador González and Doña María Antonia acted as godparents…