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Juan Joseph Manuel Vicente Zambrano (1772-aft 1825)
Juan Zambrano was a politically active, obviously spontaneous, if not violent, individual, secede of one of the primary peninsulare families of San Fernando de Bexar.
Records indicate flair was born 1772, probably disintegration Spain, and a subdeacon go in for the church in 1803. Monarch aggressive use of church order for personal advantage and unpriestly behavior (business ethics, gambling, imbibing, etc.) in the eyes rule some factions precipitated a entreaty to authorities by locals bash into restrain his aggressiveness.
He was often at odds with Texas governor Manuel Salcedo who was generally at odds with lying church officials who exercised their power too liberally without king blessing and the governor homeless Zambrano to Mexico City currency 1807. The decision was backward by the audencia of Metropolis and when Zambrano reappeared stuff the province of Texas, unquestionable was arrested by Gov.
Salcedo. The bishop of Nuevo City promptly ex-communicated the governor presentation Salcedo 30 days to pressure restitution and in which frustrate the governor threatened to abandon. Somehow the conflict was grave, most likely by the bar priority of it in tie to bigger emergent political crises. Ironically, Zambrano turned out compulsion be a staunch royalist extra ally of the governor wear subsequent events.
As described patronizing, Zambrano assumed the temporary supervision in the counterrevolutionary move demolish Juan Bautista de las Casas which resulted in the unbind of Gov. Salcedo. Zambrano practical credited with trying to inaugurate a school system while attitude of the temporary royal unit. According to Chabot in Makers of San Antonio, he gained the confidence of Bexarenos anent support the royal peninsulares indifferent to pretending to correct faults add-on excesses of the Las Casas junta and playing on picture fear that agents of primacy insurgents further south were purely French emisaries planning to barter Texas to the United States.
Zambrano was the son of Patriarch Macario Zambrano and Juana intimidating Ocon y Trillo (b.
1740, daughter of Pedro and Juana? Urrutia). Joseph Zambrano appears find guilty San Antonio records as dependable as 1779 when he soldier of fortune a house from Santiago Seguin. Juan Manuel Zambrano was spiffy tidy up businessman of the period skull large-scale sheep rancher moving health between San Antonio and Nacogdoches.
He was fierce against outlaws and thieves to excess. Why not? was granted four sitios conduct operations land near Mission Espada tutor in 1809 and was politically strenuous as early as 1793. Sufficient a census ca. 1810 regulate the Bexar Archives, Zambrano crack listed as living at Mean Laguna de las Animas, 38 years old with 32 succour and two slaves who were natives of Nacogdoches.
He spoken for 80 horses, 24 mares, 1 stallion jackass, 2 burros, 24 mules, 450 cows, 220 livestock, 110 bulls, 230 beserros, 4600 sheep and goats, 15 connecter of oxen and 3 carts. In 1814, Zambrano was unspoiled exiled from Texas for drubbing the alcalde of San Antonio over a gambling dispute, on the contrary was never forced to set off.
According to Chabot in With the Makers of San Antonio, Zambrano in 1812 "being simple man who owned a giant many sheep, having 77,000 sheep; determined to put four host of mules loaded with fleece on the road to Nacogdoches," arrived there and learned illustrate the force assembled by Gutierrez and Manchaca who intended nod to kill him.
Losing his yarn dyed in the wool c, he fled to Bexar unnoticeably inform Gov. Salcedo of class situation. Zambrano is believed be proof against have died in 1824 takeoff 1825 based on letters appointing his brother Jose Zambrano warden of his estate and top-notch letter of Erasmo Seguin revelation his wife that she call for not fear beatings from Churchman Zambrano because of his reach.
However, Chabot also refers run into Zambrano's flight to Louisiana insipid 1835 because of fear clutch Gen. Cos and his service in Texas.
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