The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 82, July 1978 - April, 1979 Page: 269
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Memorial of Father Ferncindez
ers of Villa San Fernando sent another pair of agents, Patricio Rod-
riguez15 and Juan Delgado,$o to Mexico City. The new agents failed in
their efforts to have the order reinstated mainly because of Father Fer-
nAndez's memorial.
Finally, on January 4, 1745, Viceroy Pedro CebriAn y Agustin, Conde
de Fuen Clara, officially rescinded the order of 1739 and issued a new
one, which stated that the captains of the presidios in Texas could pur-
chase needed corn either from the missions or from the settlers; that
the settlers could not hire the mission Indians as farm hands; and
furthermore, that the Canary Islanders were to fence their farms and
refrain henceforth from slaughtering cattle belonging to the missions.17
Mission San Juan Capistrano. The mission churches had not been built at
the time Father Fernandez wrote his memorial, but they became the most
substantial buildings in each mission compound. From Harper's New
Monthly Magazine (c. 1877). Texas State Historical Association Picture
Collection.
Why did the investigation drag out for four full years? Apart from
the fact that it took months in those early days for messages to be ex-
15Patricio Rodriguez, son of Salvador Rodriguez and his wife, Maria Perez Cabrera, was
born about 1715 on Lancerote Island. He and his parents were among the Islanders who
came to Bexar in 1731. Patricio was killed by Indians in 1748. Castafieda, Our Catholic
Heritage, II, 285-288; Chabot, With the Makers of San Antonio, 171.
16Juan Delgado was born in 1711 on Lancerote Island, son of Luis and Maria Melean
Delgado. In 1730 he married sixteen-year-old Catarina, daughter of Juan Leal Goraz,
either before or after their departure from Cuatitlin. They were all in the party of the
Islanders bound for Bexar. Castafieda, Our Catholic Heritage, II, 285-288; Chabot, With
the Makers of San Antonio, 171.
17Morfi, History of Texas, II, 292.2G69
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