Notes: One of Nicolás Romero's hired men, he was fifty-three years old at the time of the Pima uprising of 1751. He knew Pedro Chihuahua very well and did not believe he was guilty of anything serious enough to warrant execution. Pedro and his three children lived with Vera and his wife, María Josefa de los Ríos, and their daughter, María Antonia de la Luz de Vera for eight days prior to the Pima uprising. All were fleeing together to Terrenate when Pedro was arrested. He had the following to say during the investigation of 1752:
Pedro traveled in my presence (on the flight to Terrenate), bringing his children, without the least manifestation of suspicion, nor did I observe on his part, in the fifteen or so days that he was at my house before the insurrection, anything that would infer his having had any part in it. It appears to me that had he agreed with the band of rebels, or wanted to go with them, or if he had come among the gente de razón for some sinister reason, he would have left his children and fled. Joseph de Vera, San Ignacio, February 19, 1752 (AGI, Guadalajara 419, 3m-56, page 36)
