The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 6, July 1902 - April, 1903 Page: 105
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Some Materials for Southwestern History. . 105
nals ? which is a hard question to answer, and for most of the
papers it will probably remain unanswered; but the large number
of copies made in Chihuahua afford at least a hint that possibly
the archives of 'that city might be a fruitful field to search.
Coming now in some detail to individual sources, those in vol-
ume 51, which deals exclusively with Texas, may be put first.
The volume is entitled Tejas, Varios Asuntos de esta Provincia,
1780 a 1807, and is made up of seven documents, some of which
contain correspondence several years earlier 'than the dates in the
title would indicate. The first paper1 relates to Indian affairs and
the promotion of trade in 1776. The remaining six, comprising
about two hundred folios written on both sides, relate to the estab-
lishment, progress, abandonment, and re-establishment of the
pueblo de Nuestra Sefiora del Pilar de Bucareli.2 They contain
much unused material on this important episode of Texas history.
All of the papers in this volume were copied from official records
in Chihuahua in 1807 by Fr. Jos6 Maria Rosas, a government sec-
retary. For purposes of reference and more fully to indicate the
character of the material they contain, I give in the notes the titles
of the documents.'
'xExpediente Sobre Proposiciones del Governador de Texas, Baron de Rip-
perda, para ereccian de un nuevo Presidio, y Emprehender una Cruda
Guerra contra los Apaches, Lipanes, haciendo Alianza con los Naciones
del Norte, 104 folios, dated 1776. Most of the material relates to 1772-3.
Titles given here are, in all but one instance, taken from the documents
themselves, instead of from the "indices" at the beginnings of the volumes,
which are rather descriptions than titles of the documents.
'For references on Bucareli see Bancroft, North Mexican States and
Texas, I 631; Raines, A Bsbliography of Texas, 264.
'2. (Numbered continuously with the document named in note 1 above.)
Expediente Sobre el Establecimiento del Pueblo de Nuestra Bellora
del Pilar de Bucareli, su abandon, comercio con los Indios Gentiles del
Nortte, y destino de los Vecinos del Extinguido Presidio de los Adaes, 73
folios, 1774. 3. Expediente Sobre que al Vecindario del Pueblo de Ntra.
Seiiora del Pilar de Bucarely se le destine, Parroco, por cuenta de la Real
Hacienda, 21 folios, 1779. 4. Los Vecinos del Extinguido Presidio, y
Poblacion de los Adaes, hasta el Numero de sesenta y tres, que sin estab-
lecimiento alguno se hallan agregados al de San Antonio de Bexar, y Villa
de San Fernando; sobre que atendiendo al infeliz estado, en que han que-
dado, par haver abandonado sus cosas y Tierras; y d la felicidad con que
han servido, y estan prontos, a continuar sirvienda a S. M. en aquella
Frontera, se les conceda por el Senor Governador el Jefe, y Comandante
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