The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 41, July 1937 - April, 1938 Page: 221
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Locations of Early Spanish Missions
but with only two bastions, delineated a fortress for a garrison
of twenty-five soldiers. The bastions were to be built on diag-
onal corners so that each might defend two curtains, each of
which, including the demigorge, was to be sixty varas [167
feet] long. The fortress will occupy a good site on a hill
that overlooks the surrounding country, and all year round
can count on water from Nuestra Sefiora de la Asunci6n
Creek, which passes close by.'"
Continuing north-northeastward by the presidio site, crossing
the Camino Real at Douglass, or rather about one-half mile north
of Douglass, continuing on near the site of the village of the
Nacones, not far from the present town of Nat, the old road
goes on through Cushing, and out the Laneville road, crossing
the Angelina River at a negro settlement called Anadarko, which,
it is claimed, is the site of the village of the Nadachos. Just
before reaching the northern line of Nacogdoches County, which
is slightly more than a mile south of the Angelina River, about
two miles north of Cushing, I came to an old abandoned Indian
road which intersected the Cushing-Laneville road, and, driving
along that road toward the east, entering an enclosure, I came
to Dill Creek about seven-tenths of a mile from where I left the
Laneville road.
An examination of the map of Nacogdoches County will show
that Dill Creek is the only creek of any size flowing to the north.
At this point I might state that I have been unable to find any
reference to Mission San Jos6 de los Nazones in any of the official
records of Nacogdoches County, probably due to the fact that no
land grants in that section antedate 1835. However, the descrip-
tions given in the Spanish diaries heretofore referred to in con-
nection with Mission Concepci6n, together with the courses and
distances given from Missions Guadalupe and Concepci6n to Mis-
sion San Jose, and the positive location of the sites of these other
two missions, form a sufficient basis for our search.
Father Espinosa, in his diary of 1716, says Mission San Jos6
"is located seven leagues northeast from Concepci6n Mission."
Also he says:
16Forrestal, op. cit., pp. 58-59.221
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