A Guide to the Thorn Family Spanish Colonial Documents,
1741-1772
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Creator |
Thorn Family |
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Title |
Thorn Family Spanish Colonial
Documents, |
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Dates: |
1741-1772 |
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Abstract: |
Manuscript contains
documents regarding the inspection of Presidios by Field Marshal Marqués de
Rubí, Missions of Texas, entry of Captain Anza into Monte Rey and Regarding
Militias. |
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Accession No.: |
AR 89-082 |
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Extent |
1 volume (3
inches) |
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Language |
Materials are in Spanish. |
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Repository |
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin |
In the 1760's Marqués de Rubí was appointed by the King Carlos III of
New Spain to complete a major inspection tour of the entire line of frontier
presidios to determine their effectiveness and to suggest new policies. Rubí's
inspection tour led to recommendations which realigned the development plans
for Spanish Texas. One result was to make San Antonio de Béxar the new capital
of Texas.
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Manuscript contains documents regarding the inspection of Presidios by
Field Marshal , Missions of Texas, entry of Captain Anza into Monte Rey and
Militias.
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Access Restrictions
Unrestricted access.
Use Restrictions
Due to the fragility of these manuscripts
the microfilm should be used rather than the original manuscript.
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Thorn Family Spanish Colonial Documents, 1741-1772, the Center for
American History, University of Texas at Austin.
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Microfilm |
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| #840.01 Miscellaneous Uncataloged
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Microfilmed Copy of Original Manuscripts (as listed
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Inventory |
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Itinerary of Field Marshal Marqués de Rubí on the
inspection of interior presidios which he made at the order of the kind in this
New Spain from
1766 to 1768 |
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Another, of the Engineer LaFora, who accompanied in the
inspection by Marqués de Rubí |
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Opinion of the same Marqués regarding the most
advantageous locations in which said presidios should be
established |
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Opinion of the Assessor General Don Diego Cornide
regarding the foregoing plan for presidios |
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Report given in Spain in May of 1772 by order of the king
by said Marqués de Rubí regarding the same material |
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Copy of a letter written by the Marqués de Rubí to the
viceroy, Marqués de Croix, responding to several charges regarding his
inspection of presidios |
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Copy of two reports regarding the setting of prices for
goods and merchandise at the presidios |
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Physical setting of Chihuahua |
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Same of the province of Coahuila |
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Itinerary of the inspection visit to the province of Texas
and its missions in 1767 by Padre Fray Gaspar Solís, of the College of
Propaganda Fide of Guadalupe de Zacatecas |
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Report on the Californias, and on the new missions of San
Diego and Monte Rey |
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Log of the entry made by the captain of the presidio of
Tubac, Don Juan Bautista de Ansa, in Sonora, into the port of Monte Rey in
1741 |
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Notes and opinions of Inspector Marqués de la Torre
regarding the uselessness of militias in New Spain and the necessity of
creating veteran troops |
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