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Spanish Abandonment and Re-Occupation of East Texas. 113
but there is some indication that one of them was Fr. Josef Fran-
cisco Mariano de la Garza, a Franciscian friar from mission San
Antonio de Valero, who eventually became regularly installed at
Bucareli.'
Before this time Ybarbo had again addressed the viceroy on the
subject of a regular pastor supported by the government, and again
Ripperda had seconded the request. In response, the viceroy, on
the advice of Oconor, wrote Ripperda, in August, 1776, that, since
there were already ten religious on royal pay at the five missions
near by, as a temporary measure the governor should require the
president of the missions to send one of them to Bucareli until
the disposal of that place should be decided. Ripperda served the
bishop of Guadalaxara to Ripperda, December 13, 1775, in the B6xar
Archives; Ripperda to the viceroy, January 25, 1776, in Quaderno que
Corresponde, 69.
1Ybarbo to the viceroy, November 25, 1775; Ripperda to the viceroy,
January 15, 1776; Oconor to the viceroy, June 15, 1776; opinion of the
fiscal, August 8, 1776-all in ExpedienLe sobre . . . Parroco, 3-5;
the viceroy to Ripperdda, August 21, 1776, in the Bexar Archives. The
viceroy carelessly took Oconor's statement that there were five missions
near the presidio of San Antonio to mean that they were near Bucareli.
Arrellano caught him up on this point, as the text below shows. Arrel-
lano said that he promptly sent to Bucareli a padre, whose name he did
not mention, and asked him to have him relieved. Croix (June 24, 1777)
recommended relieving him, without mentioning his name; and Ripperd
(August 30, 1777) mentioned Garza as the padre at Bucareli whom he
had seen fit to relieve. As no other religious is mentioned in this con-
nection, and as Garza's presence at Bucareli from this time on can be
established, I conclude that he was the one sent in consequence of Rip-
perdd's order of September 27, 1776 (see Expediente sobre . . . Par-
roco, 12; Representacion del Justicia, 4; and Expediente sobre el aban-
dono, 14, 38). Garza stated in his deposition made at Zacatecas in No-
vember, 1787 (see note 5, page 84), that he had known and dealt with
Gil Ybarbo "almost without intermission, except for a few days," from
February, 1776, to September, 1783. This would indicate that he was,
perhaps, one of the two missionaries sent to Bucareli in the spring of
1776. But it seems that these missionaries returned in a short time, and
that during the summer of 1776 the place was without a spiritual ad-
viser. Hence his statement is puzzling. It appears that Ybarbo was in
B6xar in February, 1776. This might account for the beginning of their
acquaintance at this time, without supposing Garza to have been in
Bucareli. In either case, I can not explain Garza's almost continuous
dealings with Ybarbo after February, 1776.
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