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On Rancho de San Bartolome lived a couple from Bexar. The 42- year-old owner, Manuel Salinas, and his wife, Maria Ignacia Flores, 37, had five children: Margarita, 21, Gertrudis, 16, Pablo, 20, Antonia, 13, and Jose Maria, 12. A sister-in-law named l\faria Flores, 50, was staying with them also. The servants were a motley group. Sixteen-year-old Encarnacion Jimenez was a former neophyte of Mission San Juan. Jose Rosalio, a 54-year-old widower, was a free Negro who had come from Mexico. Pedro Xavier Salinas was a cowboy from Bexar, aged 62, who owned 3 mares, 1 stud, and 5 milch cows. Then there were Ignacio Rios, 27, from La Bahia, and his wife, Paula Salcedo, 23, of Bexar, and Jose Montalvo, 33, of Rio Grande, and his wife, Polonia de la Garza, 24, of Bexar. On Cibolo Creek was Rancho de San Jose, owned by Juan Martin Veramendi, 32, a native of Bexar. Here he lived with his 18-year-old wife, Josefa, also from Bexar. They had 180 milch cows, 50 bulls, I05 bullocks, 48 heifers, 20 yearlings, 70 calves, 1,890 sheep, 33 horses, 58 mares, 6 yoke of oxen, 4 ponies, 2 studs, 1 jenny, 1 jack, and I cart. Their servants were Francisco Gamaba, 26, from Bexar; Domingo Bruno. 34, cowboy, and his wife Estefana Sosa, 22; Rafael Sosa, 40, and his wife, Eufrasia Jimenez, 20, and their children: Juana, 13, lVIaria Guad- alupe, 8, Francisco, 6, Juan, 4, and Maria Ignacia, 9 months, all from Camargo; Antonio Guerra, 34, and his wife, Guadalupe Rios. 26, from San Fernando, Coahuila; Francisco Holanderos, 25, Ignacio Sanchez, 29, and his wife, Juana Antonia Flores, 27, who came from Linares to take care of the sheep and goats; and Pablo Torres, 24, from Bexar, who was employed to break horses. 36 Vicente Micheli, 51, a native of Breda, Italy, owned Rancho de San Francisco, where he lived with his wife, Maria Susana Maro, 36, of Natchitoches, and their two children: Jose Vicente. 18, and Maria Nieves, 15. He possessed 70 milch cows, 20 bulls, 5 horses, 7 mares, and 1 yoke of oxen. He had three helpers: Juan Jose Gamez. 50, widower, a cowboy from La Bahia, Prudencio Quintero, 42, from Saltillo, and his wife, Maria Guadalupe Ruiz, 50, from La Bahia. Rancho de las Mulas, one of the more prosperous establishments. was the property of 44-year-old Vicente Travieso. who declared he was a native of Saltillo. He was married to Maria Luisa Leon, of Bexar, 2-1- years old, by whom he had had three children. Juan, 9, Jacoba. 6. and Melchor, 4. His property consisted of 313 milch cows. 43 bulls, 110
36Nacogdoches Archives, XV, pp. 146-149.
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