Reiistabliskment of Missions, I721-I722 1 55 Espinosa. The company, which was drawn up in front of the church, fired repeated salvos during the ceremony. After the celebration of Mass, Aguayo addressed the Indians,-there were three hundred present. Through an interpreter, he explained to them the purpose of the expedi- tion and he urged them to congregate in a pueblo and live under the tender guidance of the missionaries. He told them, as he had done before on similar occasions, that the Spaniards had come to protect them against their enemies and to instruct them in our Holy Faith and in the ways and customs of civilized life. Father Espinosa then asked for possession of the mission for his College and for the Indians of the Nazoni nation under the same conditions as were stipulated in the two grants previously made, to all of which the Marquis acceded. After going through the usual ceremonies observed in placing the missionary and the Indians in possession of a new mission, Aguayo gave a full dress of blue cloth to the chief of the N;µonis who had been chosen governor of the proposed pueblo to be founded as soon as the crop was gathered. He was also given a silver-headed cane as the insignia of his office. To the three hundred Indians, Aguayo gave articles of clothing and other presents. Father Fray Benito Sanchez, who had charge of this mission from the time of the Ramon Expedition until its abandonment in 1719, when he had been forced to retreat to San Antonio, was again appointed as pastor. With the refounding of this mission, Aguayo completed the restoration of the three establishments originally founded by Ramon and placed under the care of the missionaries fron the College of the Holy Cross of Queretaro. 7 Refounding of Nuestra Sciiora de Guadaltvpe. Aguayo returned on August 14 from the Mission of San Jose de los Nazonis to his camp at the site of the Presidio de los Tejas, which he used as a base for his operations during the first two weeks in August. Four days before, on August 10, he had dispatched from here a detachment of soldiers with the Reverend Father Antonio Margil de Jesus and two other missionaries to rebuild and make ready the Mission of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe of the Nacogdoches. This foundation was eight leagues east-southe~t from Concepcion and was located on the present site of the city of Nacogdoches. 8 7 Peiia, Derrotero, 18; Dilixencias Executadas Sohre restablesimto ... A. G. /., Audiencia de Mexico, 62-2-2. •Bolton, "The Native Tribes," Quarterly, XI, 258.
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