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Occupation of tlec Trinity River, 1746-177.1
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has literally taken his food from his mouth that the sick may not want." In a certified statement of the supplies and prO\·isions furnished to the missionaries from September 1769 to September I i70, the principal goods are listed. These include ninety-six cows, sixty pounds of salt. twenty-se,·en fa11egas (fi~ty-four bushels) of corn. and more than thirty bundles of tobacco. He also furnished numerous suits of clothes, cloth. shoes, hats, stockings, skirts, shawls, and even neckties. The total spent in presents and supplies to restore the mission to a flourishing state was four thousand six hundred twenty pesos. All this he furnished at his own expense. His genuine efforts bore a belated fruit. In a statement certified by Fray Jose del Rosario Coto and Fray Ignacio Maria Lava, we find that Fray Luis Salvino baptized one Cujane Indian. ten adult Orcoquisacs, five children of the same nation, and one Coco; Fray Martinez, one Orcoquisac; and Fray Ignacio Maria Lava, nine adult Orcoquisacs, and two children of the same nation. Only one funeral, performed on November 24, 1770, by Fray Ignacio, is recorded. This was a Christian Coco Indian who was buried in the mission church on November 24. 79 Shortly aftt:r the return of Martinel. Pacheco to San Agustin. he received instructions from Governor Hugo Oconor, then in San Antonio, to proceed at once to La Bahia to take charge of a group of Acadian, English, and German families who had been shipwrecked on the Texas coast. He was to conduct the survivors by' way of San Agustin to the French post of Natchitoches to whose commander he was instructed to deliver them. A cadia11 and E11-glisli s/1ip,vrecks. The ship that was wrecked some forty leagues from La Bahia seems to have been named Bretana de Maryland. It is not clear whether it set sail from England or Maryland, but at the time of the accident it was on its way to New Orleans with a mixed group of families. who were to settle in Louisiana. The vessel appears to have reached the vicinity of the mouth of the Mississippi about the last day of September, 1769. llefore it could enter the river, however, it was o,·ertaken by a storm that swept it off its course and carried it somewhere near the mouth of the San Antonio River, where it was wrecked on the shallow waters of 79 The facts ,-ummarized abo,•i: concerning- tht: acti\'ity of l\lartinez Pacheco afti:r his return are found in a long document. El ,·irrey de Nue\'a Espana da cuenta con tes- timonio del merito y servicios de Dn. Rafael l\fartinez Pacheco . .. 1772. A.G. I., Guadalajara, 10-1-6-16 (Dunn Tran~cripts, 1765-1776), pp. 120-1-15.
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