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NUESTKA SENORA DEL ROSA RIO 



[b. a. e. 



had increased considerably, but the crops 

 were smaller. Soledad did not decline so 

 rapidly as some of the other California 

 missions, and in 1834 it still had about 

 6,000 cattle and 5,000 sheep. The crops, 

 however, were not very good, though 

 there was a certain amount of irrigation. 

 After secularization the decline was rapid, 

 so that in 1840 there were only about 70 

 natives left, and the livestock had almost 

 entirely disappeared. In 1846 the mis- 

 sion was sold for $800, but its buildings 

 were then in ruins. Portions of adobe 

 walls, some of them 3 ft thick, still remain 

 on the site. The Indians in the neigh- 

 borhood of Soledad were Clialones, be- 

 longing to the Costanoan linguistic stock. 

 In 1817, or thereabouts, according to in- 

 formation given to Taylor (Cal. Farmer, 

 Apr. 20, 1860), approximately a fourth of 

 the neophytes were Clialones, one-fourth 

 Easelen, and one-half from the Tulare 

 lakes. The latter were probably Yokuts 

 (Mariposan). See California Indians, 

 Costanoan Family, Mission Indians of Cali- 

 fornia, Missions. (a. b. l. ) 



Nuestra Senora de la Soledad. An Apa- 

 lachee mission settlement established in 

 1718 near Pensacola, Fla., by Juan Mar- 

 cos, chief of the tribe, with refugees 

 rescued from captivity among the Creeks, 

 by whom they had been carried away on 

 the destruction of the Apalachee missions 

 by Gov. Moore ami his Indian allies in 

 1704. The effort seems to have been 

 abandoned before 1722. (.i. m. ) 



Nuestra Senora de la Soledad. — Barcia, Ensayo, 349, 

 17:23. Our Lady of Loneliness. — Shea, Cath. Miss., 

 75, 185.5. Soledad.— Barcia. op. tit., 342. 



Nuestra Senora de la Victoria. A Fran- 

 ciscan mission founded in 1677 at Nada- 

 dores, within the territory of the present 

 state of Coahuila, Mexico. It was called 

 also Santa Roi^a, and familiarly Nada- 

 dores. Raids by the Toboso, a wild tribe 

 of northern Mexico, compelled removal 

 from its first site, 40 leagues n. e. of 

 Coahuila, to a position near Nadadores r., 

 7 leagues N. \v. of that city. The Indians 

 collected here were the Cotzalesand Manos 

 Prietas, to which, after the removal, 8Tlas- 

 caltec families were added. ( j. r. s. ) 



Nuestra Senora de los Dolores de la Punta. 

 A mission founded 1)}^ the (jueretaran 

 fathers within the limits of the present 

 Mexican state of Nueva Leon. The In- 

 dians gathered here were the Pitas and 

 the Pasalves. 



Nuestra Senora de los Dolores del Norte. 

 A Jesuit mission of Lower California, 

 founded early in the 18th ceuturv. Ve- 

 negas (Hist. Cal., ii, 198-199, 1759) says: 

 ' ' This mission was joined with that of San 

 Ignacio. Within its district, which lies 30 

 leagues from S. Ignacio [San Ignacio de 

 Kadakaman] and in the latitude of 29 °, 

 were already 548 baptized Indians." 

 Taylor states that this mission was ' ' made 

 as an adjunct to San Ignacio, but a few 



years afterward seems to have been ab- 

 sorbed into this last and abandoned-, as 

 were two or three pioneer foundations of 

 the same kind, before 1740." See also 

 Browne, Res. Pac. Slope, app., 50, 1869. 

 Nuestra Senora de los Dolores de los Ais. 

 A Franci.scan mission estal)lished in 1716 

 by the Spaniards among the Eyeish, in 

 the vicinity of Sabine r., Tex., 37 leagues 

 from Natchitoches, La, "well toward 

 the E., and near the French settlements 

 already e.stablished on Red r." of Loui- 

 siana. It was abandoned during the 

 French-Spanish hostilities of 1719 anu the 

 mission property destroyed by the In- 

 dians, but was reestablished in 1721 with 

 180 natives. In 1768 it reported only 11 

 baptisms, and in 1773 was abandoned, 

 probably on account of the decimation of 

 the Eyeish people. See Bancroft, cited 

 below; Ciarrison, Texas, 1903. 



Dolores.— BaiUToft, No. Mex. States, 1,615,666.1886. 

 Dolores de los Adaes. — Ibid., 625. Santisima Virgen 

 de los Dolores. — Austin in Tex. Hist. Ass'n Quar., 

 Vlll, 2S4, 1905. 



Nuestra Senora del Filar de los Adaes. A 

 presidio established in Sept. and Oct. 

 1721, by the Marques de Aguayo, close to 

 the mission of San Miguel de Linares (or 

 de los Adaes), in Texas, and about three- 

 quarters of the way from the Sabine to 

 Natchitoches, La. It was occupied until 

 1773, when the whole eastern frontier was 

 abandoned. In 1774, however, part of the 

 citizens returned from San Antonio to the 

 Trinity antl there founded a village which 

 was called Pilar de Bucareli. ( h. e. b. ) 



Nuestra Senora del Pilar. — Peiia, MS. Diario, 1721, in 

 Mem. de Xneva Espana, x.Wlll, 52. Nuestra Se- 

 nora del Pilar de los Adaes. — Bonilla, Breve Com- 

 pendio, 1772, in Tex, Hist. Ass'n Quar., vill, 34, 

 1905. Pilar.— Bancroft, No. Mex. States, l, 626,1886. 



Nuestra Senora del Refugio. A mission 

 founded in 1791 by Fray Manuel de Silva, 

 near the mouth of Mission r., flowing 

 into Aransas bay, Tex. It had 62 Karan- 

 kawa neophytes in 1793. It was main- 

 tained until 1828, but in 1824 the mission, 

 buildings were abandoned because of the 

 hostility of the Comanche, the baptism of 

 neophytes subsequent to this time lieing 

 performeil at the parochial church. Be- 

 tween 1807 and 1828 the missionaries 

 laboring at Refugio were Fr. Jose Manuel 

 Gaitiin, Fr. Juan Maria Zepulveda (buried 

 there June 28, 1815), Fr. Jose Antonio 

 Diaz de Leon, and Fr. Miguel Munoz. 

 During this period the total number of 

 baptisms was 204, the tribes represented 

 being the Karankawa, Piguique, Copane, 

 Coapite, Pamoque, Cujan, Malaguite, Pa- 

 jalache, Toboso, Coco, Araname, and 

 Lipan (Libro ii de Bautismos, 1807-28, in 

 the archives of the parochial church of 

 Matamoros, Mexico). (h. e. b. ) 



Refugio.— Bancroft, No. Mex. States, i, 666, 668, 

 1886. 



Nuestra Senora del Rosario. A Francis- 

 can mission founded in the fall of 1754 

 about 4 m. s. w. of Espiritu Santo de 



