Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century: Studies in Spanish Colonial History and AdministrationUniversity of California Press, 1915 - 501 páginas |
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Página 10 - If the Indian were to become either a worthy Christian or a desirable subject, he must be disciplined in the rudiments of civilized life. The task of giving the discipline was likewise turned over to the missionary. Hence, the missions were designed to be not only Christian seminaries, but in addition were outposts for the control and training schools for the civilizing of the frontier.
Página 382 - The presidio of San Saba, instead of being extinguished, as Rubi had suggested, was to be removed to the banks of the Rio Grande, while those of Adaes and Orcoquisac, with their missions, were to be suppressed. The families at Adaes and Los Ais were to be brought to the vicinity of Bexar and given lands. 'The map made by de la Fora (see page 74) was the one by which the king's advisers were guided in drawing up the "New Regulation" (Arrillaga, Recopilacion, IX, 172).
Página 410 - Bucareli, thus perpetuating the memory of their former home,1" and at the same time invoking the patronage of the viceroy, Antonio Maria de Bucareli y Ursua. The governor, in view of the distance of Paso Tomas from any settlement and of the fact that the new pueblo was to have no regular garrison, organized from their number a company of fifty militia, and named officers "for greater stimulation among them.
Página 321 - See above, p. 321. mission where the father provides them everything needed to eat and wear, they prefer to suffer hunger, nakedness, and other necessities, in order to be at liberty and idle in the woods or on the beach, giving themselves up to all kinds of vice, especially lust, theft, and dancing.
Página 444 - Nacogdoches, through being made headquarters for the trade and the distribution of presents among the dozen or more tribes in whose midst it lay, became the most important Indian agency in the province, while Ybarbo, as head of the community, became among the Indians of the northeast the most influential Spaniard of his day.
Página 320 - I have formed of this mission of Nuestra Senora del Rosario is as follows : As to material wealth it is in good condition. It has two droves of burros, about forty gentle horses, thirty gentle mules, twelve of them with harness, five thousand cattle, two hundred milch cows, and seven hundred sheep and goats. The buildings and the dwellings, both for the ministers and for the soldiers and the Indians, are good and sufficient. The stockade of thick and strong stakes which protects the mission from...
Página 402 - See page 94. request was refused, and on the same day that he referred the decision to Oconor the viceroy instructed Ripperda that he must not permit Ybarbo and Flores to go to Natchitoches under any consideration. But the force of this prohibition was greatly weakened by adding to it the very elastic instruction that he should give Ybarbo and Flores aid in locating the Adaesans "in a suitable...
Página 422 - Yscanes, and, if possible, the more distant tribes, to come and live near the new establishment. Before Arocha returned to Bexar he and Ybarbo were able, through lack of horses, to visit only the Texas and the...
Página 311 - as ready to be instructed in the mysteries of our faith as the Ayx are repugnant to living in Christian society"; for two years they had been and still were firm in their anxious desire to be reduced to a pueblo and instructed. Was it not a matter of duty to save the willing many rather than to struggle hopelessly with the unwilling few...
Página 388 - A number of persons, thirty-five according to the reports, refusing to be thus evicted, fled to the woods, Most of the inhabitants, however, prepared to obey the command, though apparently with bad grace in some cases, for complaint was made against Gonzalez that "when the day for leaving arrived he mounted a horse and went from house to house, driving the people from...