The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 8, July 1904 - April, 1905 Page: 295

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Municipal Government of San Fernando de Bexar. 295
honors within their gift, started out from the Canary Islands.1
Within a month the number of families was increased from ten
to fifteen. This was brought about by marriage among the col-
onists, as may be seen from a comparison of the list of the fam-
ilies taken at Quautitlan, September 9, 1730,2 with the list taken
just before they left Quautitlan, November 8, 1730.3 The first
list is as follows: "Juan Leal Gonzal, wife, three sons, and one
daughter; Juan Carbelo, wife, two sons, and three daughters;
Juan Leal y Moso (son of the first man), wife, four sons, and one
daughter; Antonio Santio [S.antos?], wife, one son, and four
daughters; Jos6 Padron, and wife; Manual de la Nis [Niz ?], wife,
and daughter; Salvador Rodriguez, wife, and son; Maria Rodri-
guez (widow of Juan Cabrara who died near Vera Cruz), two sons
and one daughter; Maria Rodriguez, (widow of Juan Rodriguez
Granadillo), and two sons; Maria Melian (widow of Luca Del-
gado), three sons, and one daughter; five single men: Antonio
Rodriguez, Phelipe Perez, Jose Antonio Perez, Martin Lorenzo
de Armas, Ignacio Lorenzo de Armas-a total of fifty-two persons
containing ten families." The list taken of the families just be-
fore they left Quautitlan includes the following persons :4 Juan
Leal Goras, and two sons; Juan Curbelo, wife, two sons, and one
daughter; Juan Leal, Jr., wife, four sons, and one daughter; An-
tonio Santos, wife, one son, and three daughters; Joseph Padron,
and wife; Manuel de Niz, and wife; Vicente Alvarez Travieso,
and wife; Salvador Rodriguez, wife, and one son; Francisco de
Arocha, and wife; Antonio Rodriguez, and wife; Joseph Leal, and
wife; Juan Delgado, and wife; Joseph Cabrera, son, and daughter;
Maria Rodriguez Provayna, three sons, and three daughters; Mar-
iana Melano, two sons, and one daughter; and four single men:
Phelipe Perez, Joseph Antonio Perez, Martin Lorenzo de Armas,
and Ignacio Lorenzo de Armas-a total of fifty-six persons and
fifteen families, or sixteen families if the unmarried men be
'List of Islanders taken at Quautitlan, September 9, 1730. (THE QUAR-
TERLY, II 219, The Founding of the First Texas Municipality.)
2Ibid.
3In V. O. King Collection. See appendix II.
'For a full description of the immigrants see the list in appendix II.

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