. The Southern States. Goliadwas settled, which subsequently becamenotorious for the treacherous, cruel andbloody massacre of Fannin and hisentire command by the Mexican forcesof Santa Anna on Palm Sunday, March27, 1836. These commissioners then proceededto the neighboring tribes of friendlyIndians, to whom they explained theholy and benovolent purposes of theseinstitutions and persuaded them tosubmit to the instruction and disciplineof the padres or monks, and to aid inthe construction of buildings for relig-ious worship and instruction and forshelter and defense against the hostiletribes. Ha
. The Southern States. Goliadwas settled, which subsequently becamenotorious for the treacherous, cruel andbloody massacre of Fannin and hisentire command by the Mexican forcesof Santa Anna on Palm Sunday, March27, 1836. These commissioners then proceededto the neighboring tribes of friendlyIndians, to whom they explained theholy and benovolent purposes of theseinstitutions and persuaded them tosubmit to the instruction and disciplineof the padres or monks, and to aid inthe construction of buildings for relig-ious worship and instruction and forshelter and defense against the hostiletribes. Having thus completed thelabors assigned to them, the commis-sioners reported to the viceroy andasked him to make the necessarydecrees. The viceroy laid the reportbefore the inspector of presidios for hisopinion, and this functionary Ieportedfavorably on September 22, 1830, con-cerning the recommendations of thecommissioners, with the exception ofthe location thirty leauges distant fromSan Antonio, which he considered so. MISSION DK CONCEPCION DE ACUNA. THE OLD SPANISH MISSIONS OF SAN ANTONIO. 58: far from the other settlements as torender the inmates Hable to attack andmassacre by hostile Indians. He recom-mended the removal and location ofthe three missions in the vicinity of thepresidios of San Antonio de Bexar andthe adjacent mission, San Jose. Theviceroy, in conformity with this opinion,on October 2, 1730, decreed that thecaptain of the royal presidios of SanAntonio should issue an order locatingthe three missions as recommended,using his judgment as to the location ofthe lower mission and ordering a guardof soldiers for each mission as long astheir services might be needed for itsprotection. On the fifth day of Decem-ber, 1730, the captain of the presidioof San Antonio de Bexar, in pursuanceof this decree of the viceroy, remittedthe same to Don Gabriel Castelles,captain of the presidio of La Bahia delEspiritu Santo (then temporarily locatedat what is now the town of Gol
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