Background
Juan Curbelo was born 1680 in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain and was son of Domingo Curbelo y María Martín Enríquez.
Juan Curbelo was born 1680 in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain and was son of Domingo Curbelo y María Martín Enríquez.
His family arrived in San Antonio from the Canary Islands in 1731 with other Canarian families to bring order and populate the region. He arrived to San Antonio, Texas, in 1731, along to others Spanish settlers of the Canary Island for repopulate the region. In 1737, he served as mayor of San Antonio and more late, in 1739, he renewed the charge.
He died in 1760 in Louisiana Villa de San Fernando (San Antonio) de Béxar.