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On their arrival, the group first built a temporary structure to serve as a mission. The mission's founding document is dated May 1, 1718. Signed by Alarcón as "General of the Provinces of the Kingdom of the New Philippines," it creates a new mission of San Antonio de Valero, to replace the old mission of St Joseph due to lack of water at the former site, and the new foundation is in the name ...
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]
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.
On May 1, 1718, according to a certified statement Don Martin de Alarcon gave Fray Antonio de Olivares possession of the Misión de San Antonio de Valero, later known as "The Alamo". [4] On May 5 Presidio San Antonio de Bexar was founded on the west side of the San Antonio River, from which comes the present city of San Antonio, Texas. The ...
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]
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1718 San Antonio founded by Martín de Alarcón. [1] [2] Mission San Antonio de Valero founded. 1720 – Mission San Jose founded. [3] 1722 – Presidio San Antonio de Bexar built. 1731 – Juan Leal Goraz becomes first mayor. 1750 – Church of San Fernando completed. [2] 1773 – San Antonio de Bexar named capital of Spanish Texas. [4]