Gregorio de Salinas Varona

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Gregorio de Salinas Varona
2nd
40th Governor of Spanish Honduras
In office
1705–1709
Preceded byAntonio de Monfort
Succeeded byEnrique Longman
Governor of Pensacola
In office
1709–1718
Preceded byUnknown
Succeeded byUnknown
Personal details
Born1647 or 1650
Tormé, Burgos, Spain
Died1720
Mexico City, New Spain
ProfessionGovernor

Gregorio de Salinas Varona (1647 or 1650 in Tormé,

Burgos and was descended from a noble family of civil servants with roots in the towns of Salinas de Rosío and Medina de Pomar
.

Family origins

Gregorio de Salinas Varona is the founder of the

Mexican branch of his house. His great grandnephew, Anselmo Manuel de Salinas Varona, father of Antonio Salinas y Castañeda, founded another New World branch in the Viceroyalty of Peru
, where his descendants became influential.

He was the son of Francisco de Salinas Varona, an Escribano Real residing in Torme. Francisco died on 18 October 1683. His mother was Magdalena Ruiz, who was originally from the town of Bisnela.[1]

Biography

Gregorio was born in 1647

Melchor Portocarrero Lasso de la Vega
, Count of Monclova. His son, Alonso de Salinas Varona accompanied Gregorio to New Spain.

Soon after his arrival in New Spain, he was sent to the Gulf of Tehuantepec to lead Spanish forces against pirates and smugglers in the region. At the time, pirates had taken control of much of New Spain's Pacific coast.

In 1690, the new Viceroy,

Franciscan friars to found their first mission in Texas called San Francisco de los Tejas
.

In 1691, by royal decree, he was granted the title of Comandante del Presidio de San Francisco de Coahuila. Later in the same year, he was sent to accompany an expedition run by Domingo Terán de los Ríos to extend Spanish missions into Eastern Texas.

In 1692, he was named 2nd

of Coahuila, a post that he held until 1697 and 1698 respectively. During his tenure in Coahuila
, he extended the scope and presence of missions and concentrated on colonizing the local Indians.

In 1705, he was appointed the Governor of the Nuevo Reino de León, a post that he held for two years until 1707.

He was later named

Governor of Honduras, a post that he held until 1709 when he was made the colonial Governor of Pensacola.[3] He held his post as Governor of Pensacola until 1718[4] when he was replaced by Captain Matamoros de Isla.[5][6]

He was made Governor of the Presidio de Santa María de Galve, likely in 1718 after his tenure in Pensacola.

Death

Gregorio de Salinas Varona died in 1720 or shortly after that date in Mexico City.

Bibliography

  • Some of the information on this page was translated from its Spanish version.
  • Archivo General de Indias, Archivo General de Indias de Sevilla (Madrid, 1958).
  • Jay Higginbotham, Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1703–1711 (Mobile, Alabama: Museum of the City of Mobile, 1977).
  • Robert S. Weddle, The French Thorn: Rival Explorers in the Spanish Sea, 1682–1762 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1991).
  • Pedro Salinas, "De Torme a Sayan, los Salinas en el Peru" (Editorial San Marcos, Lima, 2011. 149 p.)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Torme: Vuestros Correos". Bienvenidos a Torme (in Spanish). Bienvenidos a Torme. 8 July 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  2. ^ Weddle, Robert S. ""SALINAS VARONA, GREGORIO DE," Handbook of Texas Online". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  3. ISBN 978-0812222234
    .
  4. ^ Royal Appointment, Madrid, May 16, 1709, BNM, Vol. 19,508, fols. 78-79, 84-85.
  5. OCLC 25790765. (System ID) UF00025122:00006. Archived
    from the original on April 2, 2014. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  6. ^ Alabama Historical Quarterly: Spring & Summer, 1867 issue (PDF). Alabama State Department of Archives and History. 1867. p. 55.
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