Antonio Báez de Acevedo, mayor of Pampanga, was arrested for judaising in 1647, but the case was still active in 1661. According to the Mexican Inquisition, he had a brother called Sebastian. They were possibly related to Beatriz Vaz de Acevedo, wife of licenciado Sebastian Mendez, a lawyer. Their family appears to have been in Mexico. There is a village of Acevedo near Pontevedra in Galicia.
It is possible that Sebastian Vaz de Acevedo was the same person as
Sebastian Vazquez de Acevedo.
In 1625 Beatriz de Acevedo, widow of Alfonso Báez de Acevedo, was the heiress of her brother Nuño Rodríguez de Acevedo who died in Nicaragua. I do not know if they were New Christians, but the dead brother appears to have been born in Portugal.
As well as Antonio Váez de Acevedo, Simon Vaez Sevilla (Mexico) and Pedro de Campos (exporter of cacao from Caracas to Mexico) are also reported connected with the Manila trade.
Philippino Sephardi History
The New Christian presence in the Philippines was no doubt connected with the lucrative trade with China through Manila. Chinese merchants from Fujian brought spices, porcelain, ivory, lacquerware, processed silk cloth and other commodities that were traded for Spanish silver. This annual Manila Galleon sailed between Manila and Acapulco with its valuable cargo.
Jews in the Philippines
Spain traded with China through the Philippines. Chinese products were traded for silver from Spanish America. The annual Manila Galleon crossed the Pacific Ocean from Acapulco in Mexico to Manila in the Philippines, and back again.
There was also trade, via Malaca, between Manila and India.
Two New Christian brothers – Jorge and Domingo Rodriguez – from Mexico were arrested in Manila, transported back to Mexico and convicted with others in an auto-da-fe in Mexico City in 1593.
El tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición en las islas Filipinas (1899)