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FRANCISCAN RECORDS. 
The resident missionaries of early Nuevo Leén were mainly Franciscans 
of the provinces of Santo Evangelio de Mexico, San Francisco de Zacatecas, 
and Santiago de Jalisco. Early in the eighteenth century the Jesuits estab- 
lished at Monterrey the church of San Francisco Xavier, but retired before 
the middle of the century without founding the college which they had 
planned (Gonzalez, Lecciones, pp. 285-290, 230). 
In one corner of the Claveria there are a number of books from the dif- 
ferent houses of the province of San Francisco de Zacatecas. Most of the 
books make more or less reference to the missions of the lower Rio Grande, 
which belonged to that province. 
Libros de patentes (books of licenses). These are books containing 
copies of instructions and orders from the provincial and other 
superior authorities. 
To the mission of San Francisco de las Presas. 1767-1783. 
To the vicaria of San Fernando de las Presas. 1814-1826. 
To the monastery of San Andrés de Monterrey. 1757-1789; 1818- 
1823 ; 1823-1844. 
To the mission of Reynosa. 1788-1803. 
To San Francisco de Monterrey. 1797-1818. 
To a house whose name does not appear. 1797-1835. 
Book of inventories (libro de inventarios) of the convent of San Andrés 
de Monterrey. 1796-1833. 
PARISH CHURCH RECORDS. 
The oldest records at the parish church (at the curato) are the marriage 
registers, which begin with the year 1692. From this time forward the 
records are full enough to give one an outline of the history of the parish 
church. 
DR. GONZALEZ’S COLLECTION. 
Dr. José Eleuterio Gonzalez, the painstaking and conscientious chronicler 
of Nuevo Leon, had a considerable collection of manuscript and other mate- 
rials. From a statement in his Noticias y Documentos (Obras Completas, I. 
740) it appears that he possessed data concerning the discovery and coloniza- 
tion of the provinces of Coahuila and Texas. Presumably they were utilized 
in his Lecciones. The collection is said to be in the possession of Lic. Zepul- 
veda, Monterrey. 
OTHER LOCAL ARCHIVES. 
Other local archives of the state of Nuevo Leon which, because of the his- 
torical connection of the places with the United States, might reasonably be 
expected to contain data of interest are suggested here, although they were 
not visited by the writer. (For Cerralvo, see p. 410.) 
Cadereyta. 
Cadereyta is an ancient settlement (founded in 1626), in whose early his- 
tory the family of De Leén, the conquistador of Texas, played a prominent 
part, and it is not improbable that the local records preserve data of interest 
concerning the family. Dr. Gonzalez cites from this archive the contract of 
De Zavala for the conquest of Nuevo Leon, 1626 (op cit., p. 59), a document 
of interest for the whole northern frontier. 
