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Vicente Álvarez Travieso (1705–1779) was a Spanish judge and politician who served as the first alguacil mayor of San Antonio, Texas, from 1731 until his death. He was lead spokesperson of the Canary Islanders settlers of San Antonio and was noted for his support for the Isleño community of San Antonio. Through their demands to the leaders of New Spain, the Isleños were able to improve their lives in the city. Through their demands, he got, ''inter alia'', medical care without which many Isleños would not have survived. Travieso became mayor of San Antonio in 1776. ==Biography== Vicente Alvarez Travieso was born in 1705 in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). He was the son of José and Catalina (Cayetano) Álvarez Travieso. His family moved to San Antonio, Texas by 1731〔(Handbook of Texas Online: Álvarez Travieso, Vicente ), by Jack Jackson. Consulted 3 June 2010, to 01:32.〕 when he was 25 years old. 〔(Ranchos de Texas y Lanzarote ).〕 In 1730, when the Spanish Crown decided to sponsor ten or eleven families from the Canary Islands to emigrate to Villa de San Fernando (modern San Antonio, Texas) because of a supposed threat to Spanish interests by the French in Louisiana, the Travieso family was one of the families who decided to travel to the place. After leaving the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife heading to Texas, the Canarian settlers stopped in modern Mexico. He married his girlfriend Mariana Curbelo in Cuautitlan, Mexico, and they were listed as the seventh family of the Canary Islanders to travel to San Fernando. After arriving in San Antonio de Béjar, the Isleños established a municipal government and Alvarez Travieso was elected Alguacil as mayor for life. He used his new position to fight for the rights of the new Canarian settlers, thus becoming their leading spokesperson. When the Isleños needed medical care but were denied permission to travel to Saltillo, Mexico, to obtain it (January 24, 1736), Alvarez Travieso sent a series of demands〔 which were finally accepted in 1770 by the government of Ripperdá, who allowed the Canarians go to El Saltillo.〔CURBELO FUENTES, Armando, La Fundación de San Antonio de Texas por canarios, la gran deuda americana (The founding of San Antonio, Texas for canarian people, the great U.S. debt). Page: 71 - 81. Third Edition, 1990.〕 He also instituted other lawsuits on behalf of his peers. In 1740, one of these lawsuits were instituted to ensure the presence of Native American missions on the lands of the settlers, and the right of the Isleños to sell their products to presidio. The missionaries appealed to the Viceroy, but yet he managed to retain the Canarian privileges. He sent another demand in 1756, which was directed against the monopoly and virtual rights that the missions have on lands and waters of San Antonio, and that favored only to around the city to which the Canarians had no access. When the claim of Travieso about of deliver a ranch on the banks of Cibolo Creek to private farmers of Bexar was rejected by friars Quereteran of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception in Acuña Mission, he made another demand in 1771. The sentence, obtained in Mexico City, was favorable to private farmers from Bexar but, however, was not carried out, and the Álvarez's title in Rancho de las Mulas remained cloudy. The isleños's access to water surrounding the villages was accepted but, ironically, they became the owners this water, preventing access to it to the Spanish Franciscans in the same. He was elected mayor of San Antonio in 1776.〔Balbuena Castellano, José Manuel. "La odisea de los canarios en Texas y Luisiana" (The odyssey of the canaries in Texas and Louisiana). Page 46; (ed) 2007,editorial: Anroart Ediciones.〕 The Alvarez Travieso´s family, despite having lost cattle in the area, continued to struggle, but the members of the clan kept their cattle loose, so that many of their cows moved away from the pastures near. To prevent such of "excesses", the Governor Vicencio Ripperdá issued two tests against the theft of livestock of the San Antonio River valley. Travieso Alvarez died just after the procedure, the January 25, 1779, but fighting continued in the younger generations.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vicente Álvarez Travieso」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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