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the Apaches, whom they attacked last year before the governor of
Coahuila did so."20
3. Assignment of regular missionaries.-At the end of March,
1748, the first regular assignment of missionaries was made by
the College. On the 31st of that month the newly elected guard-
ian, Fray Francisco Xavier Castellanos, himself a former worker
in Texas,21 wrote to the president, Father Santa Ana, in regard
to his plans. The new missions had been erected into a presi-
dency, and Fray Mariano, of course, made the president.21a- Six
new missionaries were to be provided for Texas, but three of them
were to change places with three of the "antiguos" (old mission-
aries) at the San Antonio missions, two from mission Valero and
one other. With these three men already in Texas, three of the
new ones were to go to San Xavier, the rest to be distributed else-
where, as President Santa Ana should see fit.
The Valero missionaries at this time were Fray MLariano and
Fray Diego Martin Garcia. The latter had been in Texas since
1741, at least.22 It is to him that we owe the preservation of the
earliest records of the Texas missions. Later he saw service in
the missions of northern Sonora. The missionaries named in the
guardian's letter were Friars Alonso Giraldo de Terreros, Juan
de los Angeles, and Saluad de Amaya, all of whom had formerly
served in Texas ;23 and Juan Hernandez, Mariano Anda, and Fray
Domingo, referring by the last name, no doubt, to Fray Juan
Domingo Arricivita, later known as the historian. The document
does not state in terms that all of these men are among the mis-
sionaries to be sent, but such is the implication. It will be seen
later on that some of them did and some did not operate at San
Xavier. In addition to these six new missionaries, sent in the
name of the three new missions, Father Castellanos promised to
send others to supply deficiencies.
20Dictamen del Auditor. For the attack by the governor of Coahuila,
see Dunn, Apache Relations in Texas, 254.
21He had been at the mission of Valero twenty years before. See
Schmidt, Franciscan Missionaries in Texas, 7.
naNevertheless, the San Xavier missions continued to be administered
as belonging to the presidency of San Antonio.
"2See Schmidt's list, op. cit.
23Terreros had been at Valero in 1730 and 1731; Amaya was in Texas
during the period 1728-1734. Schmidt, op. cit.; and Los Angeles in 1744.
Schmidt, op. cit.370
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