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Spanish Texas History Highlights and Key Settlements
The article traces Spanish Texas developments from 1773 to 1793 including the San Aleazario presidio below El Paso, Bernardo de Galvez’s survey naming Galveston Bay, Nacogdoches founding in 1779, population of 2,819 by 1783, Fray Arricivita’s chronicles, and the 1793 shift of missions to secular parishes with land redistribution for Indians. It notes the shift of Rio Grande and founding of Bucareli on the Trinity River.
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Archivo General de Mexico
Presidio
San Eleazario
San Elizario
Marques de Rubi
San Aleazario
Rio Grande
el Paso
Texas
Bernardo DE Galvez
Louisiana
Spain
Galveston Bay
Island
Nacogdoches
East Texas
Los Adsos
San Antonio
Antonio Gil Ybardo
Bucareli
Trinity River
Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe
Spanish Texas
Province of
la Bahia
Laredo
Coahuila
Ysleta
Nueva Viscaya
Fray Juan Domingo Arricivita
Fray Espinosa
Fray Arricivita
Queretarb
Arricivita
Southwest
Missions Espiritu Santo
Rosario
Refugio