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By the year 1706, the Spanish had converted some Payaya among the Indigenous converts baptized at Mission San Francisco Solano, 5 miles (8.0 km) from the Rio Grande in Coahuila, Mexico. Today's municipality of Guerrero is the approximate location of Mission San Francisco Solano. [5] [6] The Payaya were a small band of sixty families by 1709. [7]
They were mentioned in 1718 records as being near the newly established town of San Antonio, Texas. [14] They expanded into Texas and south the Gulf of Mexico and Rio Grande. In the mid-18th century, some Lipan settled in and near Spanish missions in Texas. [30] Clashes with Comanche forced them into southern Texas and northern Mexico. [30]
Fray Antonio de Olivares also built the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, on the west side of the San Antonio River, approximately 1 mile from the mission. [4] It was designed to protect the system of missions and civilian settlements in central Texas and to ensure Spanish claims in the region against possible encroachment from other European powers.
Alarcón led a group of 72 people, including 10 families, into Texas in April 1718, where they settled along the San Antonio River. Within the next week, the settlers built mission San Antonio de Valero and a presidio, and chartered the municipality of San Antonio de Béxar, now San Antonio, Texas. [42]
Some Lipan Apache people settled northwest of San Antonio during the mid-18th century. [42] Spanish colonists built forts and missions near Lipan settlements. [43] A mission on the San Sabá River was completed in 1757 but destroyed by the Comanche and the Wichita. [23] That same year, the Lipan Apache fought the Hasinais, [44] a band of Caddo ...
The settlers who had lived near Los Adaes were forced to resettle in San Antonio in 1773. [24] In the six years between the inspection and the removal of the settlers, the population of eastern Tejas had increased from 200 settlers of European descent to 500 people, a mixture of Spanish , French , Indians , and a few blacks .
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Some 5,000 Isleños (the majority of them descendants of the original Canarian settlers) live in San Antonio, Texas. [2] Several of the old families of San Antonio trace their descent from the Canary Island colonists. María Rosa Padrón was the first Canary Islander baby born in San Antonio. [23]