San Antonio De B�xar In 1729
taken from
San
Antonio and Its Beginnings, 1691 � 1731
San Antonio, 17291
APPENDIX III
Rosa Guerra was newly wed to Matias
Trevi�o.
One of the 17th
century cavaliers of Texas was Diego Ximenes Valdes, of Saltillo, who
had married Antonio Vidales in San Antonio ten years before.
Nicolas
Flores de Valdes, who had been
Alferez in Monclova in 1693, probably a member of the Olivares-Espinosa-Aguirre
Expedition, 1709, and who was Captain at San Antonio, being relieved of the
command in 1725, was father of Gertrudis, who married Diego Ramon.
Martin Flores y Valdes was also one of the principal conquerors and
pacifiers of the province of Texas.
Marcial Saucedo and his wife, Maria Ramirez, were early
settlers: as were the Gonzales and Montemayer; and the family of Juan
Joseph Rodriguez.
Mateo Perez, who had been in service at the San Francisco
Solano Mission as early as 1706, had been Lieutenant at San Antonio previous to
1729.
Miguel de la
Garza had married Maria
Cantu (1725) and their son Joseph Joaquin.
As early as 1721 Joseph
Martinez had married Juana Carvajal.
Another newly wed couple
were Marcelino
Martinez and Alfonza de Castro y Valdez (1728).
There were the families of
Andres and Juan de Sosa.
In 1719 the master smith, Juan Banul,
had come to San Antonio.� He was from
Brussels, and his wife �Madam Banul� and their young family were popular at the
time.
Joseph
Antonio Menchaca was the head
of a prominent line.
The Seguin,
of distinguished French descent, had come to San Antonio from Aguascalientes in
1722.
Two veterans of the Aguayo
Expedition were duly respected; they were Juan Jose de
Rojas and Juan
Cortinas of Monterey.
The Avila, Nu�ez-Morillo
and Ocon
y Trillo were all prominent at this time.
Three important marriages
were celebrated during 1729:
that
of the master tailor Andres de
Castro with Antonia Flores;
that
of the master smith, Cayetano
Guerrero with Ana Hernandez;
and
that of Joseph
Maldonado with Ana Maria Ximenes.
Diego Cantu was born during this year; as was Joseph de
Luna;
Julian Trevi�o and Maria Rita Maldonado (married in San Antonio
in 1723).
Other young people of the
place, whose families were to be its leading citizens, were Marcos Guerra,
Christobal Chirino, Pedro Nolasco Flores and Miguel
Qui�ones y Flores de Abrego, all born in San Antonio in 1720.
Pedro, the oldest son of Domingo Flores de Abrego,
the Mayordomo of the Valero Mission was now ten years of age.� His christening had been an event for the
frontier life; it was attended by all of the soldiers of the presidio.
Other young people of the
community were: the four children of Joseph
Ximenes and Maria Flores Valdes;
Ignacio, son of Francisco Flores who married the widow of Geronimo
Carvajal in 1722, Ignacio�s mother; and family of Juan de Castro.
Other prominent citizens
of the time were Antonio Ximenes and his wife, Maria Suarez de
Longoria; Juan Sartuche, �the alferes of Texas,� and his wife, Josefa
Sanchez Navarro; Lieutenant Valdez, �the fiscal,� and Gaspar Trevi�o.
- See San Antonio in
1729, written by the author, May 1929, for the San Antonio Express.
Source:
[1] Frederick C. Chabot, San Antonio and Its
Beginnings 1691-1731,� (Naylor Printing
Company, Copyright 1931), Appendix III, p 129-130.
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