Thanks to documents consulted, we know for sure that Luis de Encío had settled in Guadalajara at least by 1634. We also know that Encío married a native woman by the name of Catalina de Silva, and that their only daughter, Margarita, in turn married Juan de Páez, probably in 1636. Now, when did Encío arrive in this territory? So far we do not know for sure, but Calvo and some records consulted give us some clues that allow for us to speculate that Encío had been in the town of Ahuacatlán, near Bahía de Banderas, at least since 1620.

And here’s another question, how did Luis de Encío and Juan de Páez meet?  It could be that they arrived together, but we have information to suggest they took different paths:  it seems that Juan de Páez lived in Guadalajara since he arrived in Mexico,  while it appears that it took Luis de Encío more than ten years to settle in this city, where it is likely they first met.[11]  We believe that Luis de Encío, while working as a traveling salesman during one of his temporary stays in Guadalajara in the early 1630’s, first met Juan de Páez when he was a young man of around twenty years old.[12]  Ethnic and racial affinity–referring to their common physical features-must have been a factor that led to their meeting each other, above all when they found out that they were both from faraway Japan. 

Thomas Calvo believes that Luis de Encío started his commercial career in these lands as a peddler, an activity that must have brought him to Guadalajara after procuring contacts that capitalized him.  From there, he embarked on a new stage in his life in Nueva Galicia.  In 1634, he signed a contract as partner of the Guadalajara merchant Francisco de Reinoso, in which he promised to tend to a shop in Guadalajara, a decision that led to him settling down in this city permanently.