The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 6, July 1902 - April, 1903 Page: 109
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Some Materials for Southwestern History.
are scattered through the remaining volumes examined; for exam-
ple, in No. 37, entitled Presidos [sic], Pagos de Soldados, is a col-
lection of autos relating to the possession of churches and convents
of the El Paso district just at the close of the eighteenth century;
while in volumes 53-56, a series entitled Tamaulipas, are contained
official descriptions of Dolores and Laredo in 1757, settlements in
what was then Nuevo Santander.' In volume 42, entitled Misio-
nes, which is a report made in 17932 on the State of the missions,
paragraphs 187-236, occupying ten folios, are on the missions of
Texas.
What the remaining 273 volumes have of interest for students
of Texas history can be learned only by patient investigation, but
the amount is probably considerable. The interests of historical
work on Texas would be greatly promoted were it possible to make
some arrangement by which to systematically seek out, sift, copy,
edit, and publish the more important sources of Texas history
which this large collection contains.
On the history of Nuevo Mexico there is in these volumes a
large amount of material, to a considerable extent original, and
much of it unpublished.' Three volumes (37, 38, 39) deal exclu-
sively with that province during the years 1690-1697, the period
occupied by Vargas's reconquest. Volume 37, Presidos, Pagos de
1In March, 1757, Don Joseph Tienda de Cuervo, captain of dragoons at
Vera Cruz, and Don Agustfn Lopez, lieutenant-colonel of the royal cav-
alry, and an engineer, were commissioned to make a survey of the colony
of Nuevo Santander. The original results of the surveys or "Inspecciones"
are contained in volumes 55 and 56; vol. 54 is made up of Cuervo's sum-
mary report to the viceroy; while No. 53 contains the report of Lopez,
entitled Descripci6n General. All these are original. A copy was made
of those relating to Laredo. They may be translated and published in
the future.
2December 27. A report made in consequence of a royal order of Jan-
uary, 1784, to the viceroy. This report has been printed entire in Dic-
cionario Universal de Historia y de Geografia. Mexico, 1853-56. 4to.
10 vols.
'Of the first thirty-two volumes, 2, 3, and 25 relate to Nuevo Mexico.
The material in volumes 2 and 3 is printed in Dooumentos para la His-
toria de Mexico, 3d series, IV 113-208. A copy of the same, Bancroft cites
as the Archivo de Nuevo Mexico. See his Arizona and New Mexico, 20,
197.109
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