Canary Islanders Records 1730-1734

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Canary Islanders Records 1730-1734

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01440/01440-P.html

Orders, acknowledgments, inventories,and reports relate to the equipping of 56 settlers sent by Spain from the CanaryIslands and their subsequent settlement at San Fernando de Béxar, the firstregularly organized civil government in Texas.

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