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finally recognized. The assignment of a salary of fi\"e hundred pesos a year to Ibarbo in October, I7i9, and the conferring of the title of Captain of the militia and Lieutenant Governor of the Pueblo of Nuestra Senora dcl Pilar de Nacogdoches upon him confirmed the official recognition of the new settlement, 114 destined to become the most important outpost on the eastern frontier and the center of Spanish-Indian trade to the time of the appearance of the first Anglo-American settlers.
"Croix to Cabello, October 15, 1779; Cabello to Croix, December 17, 1779; Cabello to lbarbo, March 11, 1780. Bexar Arcl,ives, University of Texas.
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