A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . ed on the river belowEl Paso, but it was broken up by the natives the next year. In Missionary1684, three Franciscan monks were sent down the river from El to^^in Texas Missions onthe Rio Grande 56 A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. IKRIOD Domination1528 TOI 82 I Missions inNew Leon andCoahuila Paso by Governor Jironza (he-ron-za), and they re\ived themission at the mouth of the Conches. Padre Antonio Acebedo(a-sfi-ba-do) remained there to teach, while the other two,—Nicolas Lopez and Juan de Zavaleta,—with an escort of so
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . ed on the river belowEl Paso, but it was broken up by the natives the next year. In Missionary1684, three Franciscan monks were sent down the river from El to^^in Texas Missions onthe Rio Grande 56 A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. IKRIOD Domination1528 TOI 82 I Missions inNew Leon andCoahuila Paso by Governor Jironza (he-ron-za), and they re\ived themission at the mouth of the Conches. Padre Antonio Acebedo(a-sfi-ba-do) remained there to teach, while the other two,—Nicolas Lopez and Juan de Zavaleta,—with an escort of soldiers,went east into the plains of Texas and across the Pecos River,then called the Salado (sa-la-THo or sa-la-5), many daysjourney, and, as they claimed, within twenty leagues of the TejasI ndians. In 1697, the mission Nombre de Dios (de-6s) was foundedabout one league from the present city of Chihuahua, at firstcalled San Felipe de Chihuahua. Turning now to Coahuila, where the Franciscans mainlyoperated, we find that from 1670 to 16]^ padre Juan Larios and. Map ok in i hk Skvkntkknth and Eighteenth Centuries. other Franciscans founded the mission of San Miguel de Aguayo(li-gwi-yo), near Nadadores, and the mission at Nadadores wasfounded in 1676. These were continued for several years, and SPANISH DISCOVERY AND DOMINATION IN TEXAS. 57 in 1687 the viceroy established the villa (vel-ya) and presidio Period i. SpanishDomination (pra-sed-e-6) of Santiago de Monclova, often called in those Spanish days Villa de Coahuila, or simply Coahuila, being the modernMonclova,—half a league from San Miguel. In 1688, Father to Manzanet (man-zan-a) established a mission near Monclova, i^2i and Francisco Hidalgo (e-diil-go), Francisco Estevez, andFather Escaray joined him. They also founded the Mission FatherDolores (do-lo-raz) at Boca de Leones (la-6n-az), near Lam- ^^^^^^pazos, in New Leon. Manzanets mission was called San Sal-vador, or Santiago, and it was in the Candela vall
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