The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 9, July 1905 - April, 1906 Page: 69
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Spanish Abandonment and Re-Occupation of East Texas. 69
along the north Mexican border as a whole, and more particularly
those on the Texas-Louisiana frontier.
1. Indian troubles in the frontier provinces.-At the middle of
the eighteenth century it seemed as if most of what had been ac-
complished for civilization in northern Mexico through the
bravery and religious zeal of the Spaniards was about to be de-
stroyed by Indian revolts within and Indian attacks from without.
Nearly all along the northern frontier from Sonora to Texas the
interior tribes were becoming less docile and those outside more
aggressive.
In Sonora the chief trouble was from within. In 1751 the
Pimas living near the head of the Gulf of California revolted
under their native leader, Don Luis, destroyed most of the Span-
ish missions, pueblos, and ranches in and near the valley of the
Altar River, and drove out many of the settlers. After several
bers 2 and 3, as contained in volume LI, were copied from copies con-
tained in volume XCIII of Secci6n de Historia.
9. -Consulta del Sor. Comandante Gral. de nls Provas. de Oriente sobre
solicitud que han hecho los Yndios Horcoquisac, Atacapaces, Vidais, y
Cocos, pidiendole se establesca la Mision del Orcoquisac: sobre que se
separe del empleo de Tente. de Governador a Don Antonio Gil Ybarbo,
etc. MS., 1788. In Volume XCIII, Secci6n de Historia, Archivo General.
10. Expediente sobre la dolosa y fingida, paz de las Naciones del Norte;
y comercio ilicito de los Franceses de la Nueba Orleans. MS. Folios 48.
A copy is contained in Volume XCIII of Secci6n de Historia, Archivo
General.
11. Correspondence of Governors Ripperds and Cabello concerning
Texas, in volumes XCIX and C of Secci6n de Provincias Internas. Orig-
inal MS.
12. Derrotero, Diario, y Calculacion de leguas, que en descubrimiento
por derecho desde esta Provincia del Nueva Mexico hasta el Fuerte de
Natchitoches y la de los Texas, de -orden superior voy a practicar en
compafiia de Dn. Pedro Vial, comisionado a esta proposito, yo el abajo y
lo ultimo firmado, Francisco Xavier Fragoso. Villa de Santa F4, veinte y
quatro de Junio de mil setecientos ochenta y ocho. Signed also by Pedro
Vial. Document No. 17, volume XLIII, Secci6n de Historia, Archivo
General. MS.
13. Reglamento 6 instruccion para los presidios que se han de formar
en la linea de frontera de la Nueva Espafia. Resuelto por el rey en cedula
de 10 de setimebre de 1772, in Arrillaga, Recopilacion de leyes, Decretos,
Bandos, Reglamentos, Giroulares y Providencias de los Supremos Poderes
de los Estados-Unidos Mexicanos, etc. (Mexico, 1835) Vol. IX, 139-189.
Printed first in Madrid, 1772.
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