The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 2, July 1898 - April, 1899 Page: 97
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Notes and Fragments.
We regret exceedingly that this report has been circulated, as
it is a reflection on the old Texans, and would be a blot on Texas"
history.
A. J. BERRY,
ROBERT HALL,
J. W. DARLINGTON.
CONCERNING SAINT-DENIS.- The Mission San Juan Bautista,
situated on the small stream called Costaios, about six miles west of
the Rio Grande, and about twenty-five miles below Piedras Negras,
now Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, was first founded in 1699, some distance
from where it now stands; but, being abandoned by the tribes first
settled there, it was re-established where it now stands in 1701.
In the same year, the Conde Valladores made the place a presidio,
with the name of Presidio de San Juan, Bautista putting there a
small garrison of Spanish troops. And from that time it has main-
tained its existence in the same place, though its name was changed
by .an act of the State Congress of May 18th, 1835, to Villa de
Guerrero; yet it is generally known as Presidio Rio Grande.
The mission building, now the cathedral 'of the place, has been
well preserved, and may still contain the early archives relating to
the mission, including the marriage of Saint-Denis to the niece of
Captain Ramon.
The accusation of Saint-Denis, his trial, acquittal, its approval
by the Viceroy, and the revocation and his condemnation ,as a spy
by the Consejo de Indias, and final sentence to imprisonment, with
his wife, in Guatemala, may also be found in the Archivo General
at Mexico.
The famous Acordada, where Arnuto Arroyo was killed on the
night .of the sixteenth of September last, after his attempt to as-
sassinate Porfirio Diaz, is the same in which Saint-Denis was con-
fined for some time, and his name may possibly be found on the
roster, with a note lof his sentence, and when he was taken away
for Guatemala. This prison stands on the west side of the great
square, south of the principal -cathedral, commonly called el Zoealo,
on account -of the Aztec Zocalo standing there, and generally be-
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