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Historical Survey--A Shared Experience--Jose de Escandon - English
URL: http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Past/Book/Part2/escandon.html

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In 1700, the same year the Indians labored to build San Juan Bautista, a child was born to Juan de Escandón and Francisca de la Helguera at Soto la Marina in distant Spain. This child, a boy called José de Escandón, would etch his name in the annals of history as the colonizer of the Colonia de Nuevo Santander.

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Handbook of Texas Online: ESCANDON, JOSE DE - English
URL: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/print/EE/fes1.html

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South Texas colonizer, was born in Soto la Marina, Santander, Spain, on May 19, 1700, one of three sons of Juan de Escandón and Francisca de la Helguera. He is known as the colonizer and first governor of the colony of Nuevo Santander,qv which extended from the Pánuco River in Mexico to the Guadalupe River in Texas.

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Page one of Escandon Settlement of New Spain - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/7807/escand01.htm

In 1530 the Franciscans started the first mission for the Huastec and Pames Indians in what is now the the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Father Andrés de Olmos is credited with establishing the Villa de San Luis de Tampico in 1560. In 1583 Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva, a Portuguese Jew, was named as Governor of Nuevo Leòn. He entered with his colony and began to establish the colonies of Monterrey, Monclova, and probably Cerralvo between that year and 1596. Some descendants of this group became part of the Escandòn colonists.

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