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Francisco Manuel de Silva Nieto (died 1632) was Governor of New Mexico at a time when it was a province of New Spain.Captain Don Francisco Manuel de Silva Nieto left Mexico City on 4 September 1628 reaching Santa Fe on 1 May 1629 when he took office as Governor of New Mexico. He may have travelled with the Franciscan father Estevan de Perea who brought about thirty friars and several lay brothers to undertake missionary work in New Mexico around that time.