CHRONOLOGICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE FORTS VELASCO
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Spanish-Language Archives
Documents from various archives for which an attempt has been made to transcribe and translate


Some key Spanish-language documents are displayed on the various sub-pages of this site; however, other documents of lesser importance or with peripheral content to the Forts Velasco are listed below.  Readers with fluency in Spanish are asked to help improve the transcriptions or translations for both types, so we have provided links to a copy of the original document, as well as the current state of the transcription/translation.


Bexar Archives (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Austin TX)
Microfilm Roll 132:
Hosea H. League to
Rámon Músquiz, 27-Jul-1830 & reply     frame 880     frame 881a     frame 881b     Transcription/Translation
     - reporting that George Fisher is appointed provisionally as Secretary of Ayuntamiento at San Felipe de Austin

Microfilm Roll 136:
Rámon Músquiz to Governor of Coahuila and Texas, 22-Nov-1830     frame 456+     Transcription/Translation
     - forbidding Lorenzo de Zavala to utilize his land grant in east Texas
Microfilm Roll 145:

Rámon Músquiz to George Fisher, 6-Dec-1831     frame 141-top     -bottom     frame 142-top     -bottom     Transcription/Translation
     - Músquiz acknowledges Fisher's broadsheet of 6-Oct-1831 re-establishing Galveston customs, but reminds Fisher to forget past occurrences

Antonio Elosúa to George Fisher, 11-Nov-1831     frame 917     Transcription/Translation
     - 
Elosúa acknowledges Fisher's broadsheet of 6-Oct-1831 re-establishing Galveston customs house
Microfilm Roll 149:

Antonio Elosúa to Domingo de Ugartechea, 10-Apr-1832     frame 323     frame 324     Transcription/Translation
     -  Elosúa acknowledges Ugartechea's dispatch of 13-Mar-1832 indicating he'd arrived at Anahuac 

Antonio Elosúa to Manuel de Mier y Terán, 24-Apr-1832     frame 591     frame 592     Transcription/Translation
     - Cover letter for 
Elosúa in forwarding dispatch of Jose de las Piedras of 9-Apr-1832 (Roll 149, frames 302-304) to Téran
José de las Piedras to Antonio Elosúa, 7-May-1832     frame 873     frame 874     Transcription/Translation
     - notifies 
Elosúa that he has sent gunpowder to Ugartechea, but cannot send officers or sergeants
Microfilm Roll 150:
Antonio Elosúa to Commander General, 5- & 9-Jul-1832     frames 573    574    575    576    577     Transcription/Translation
     - Cover letters for forwarded copies, from Mariano Cosio and Domingo Ugartechea (Roll 150, frames 307 to 313 and 29 to 31)
Microfilm Roll 151:
Francisco Castañeda to Antonio Elosúa, 10-Jul-1832     frame 521     Transcription/Translation
     - message about delivery by Ugartechea of prisoner from Company of Bexar, along with arms, munitions and horses



Samuel May Williams Collection (Rosenberg Library, Galveston TX)
George Fisher to Samuel May Williams, 6-Jul-1830                   MS 23-0382     Transcription/Translation
     - acknowledges welcome note from Williams, mentions suspension of customs, and plan to meet Stephen F. Austin
George B. McKinstry (21-Jul-1830) & W. B. Dunlap (21-, 24-Jul-1830) to George Fisher     MS 23-0391     Transcription/Translation
     - reports of ships arriving at Brazoria and Harrisburg
Samuel May Williams to George Fisher, 16-Sep-1830                MS 23-0414     Transcription/Translation
     - receipt for tonnage duties collected by Fisher but turned over to Williams
Erasmo Seguin to Samuel May Williams, 14-Oct-1830               MS 23-0450     Transcription/Translation

     - letter indicating that official documents should be in Spanish
Manuel Mier y Terán to Samuel May Williams, 22-Oct-1830     MS 23-0456     Transcription/Translation
     - letter asking for collection of items of natural history

Samuel May Williams to Government, 30-Oct-1830                   MS 23-0463     Transcription/Translation
     - letter forwarding documents about schooner Transport and other from customs house
George Fisher to Manuel Mier y Terán, 1-Nov-1830                   MS 23-0423     Transcription/Translation
     - translation into Spanish of sailing notice for schooner True Blue
Erasmo Seguin to Samuel May Williams, 9-Dec-1830                MS 23-0489     Transcription/Translation
     - letter describing that Teran wants documents about confiscation of schooner Canon



The Austin Papers
(since these are already transcripts, only transcription/translations are linked below)

Stephen F. Austin to Supreme Executive Power of the Mexican Republic, 1-Oct-1824, Vol. I, pp. 912-913     Transcription/Translation
Stephen F. Austin's Explanation to Supreme Executive Power, 1-Oct-1824, Vol. I, pp. 913-916     Transcription/Translation
Stephen F. Austin to Supreme Executive Power of the Mexican Republic, 6-Nov-1824, Vol. I, pp. 935-936     Transcription/Translation
Stephen F. Austin to State Congress, 6-Nov-1824, Vol. I, p. 936     Transcription/Translation
George Fisher to Lorenzo de Zavala, 10-Feb-1830, Vol. II, pp. 330-331     Transcription/Translation
Stephen F. Austin to Rámon Músquiz, 29-Mar-1830, Vol. II, pp. 354-355     Transcription/Translation
George Fisher to Stephen F. Austin, 18-May-1830, Vol. II, p. 391     Transcription/Translation
George Fisher to Civil Militia Commander at San Felipe de Austin, 18-May-1830, Vol. II, pp. 391-392     Transcription/Translation
Circular from Thomas Barnett to Stephen F. Austin, 18-May-1830, Vol. II, p. 392     Transcription/Translation
Stephen F. Austin to George Fisher, 18-May-1830, Vol. II, p. 408     Transcription/Translation
Stephen F. Austin to Manuel de Mier y Terán, about 1-Aug-1830, Vol. II, pp. 461-462     Transcription/Translation
G
eorge Fisher to Governor of Coahuila and Texas, 19-Feb-1831, Vol. II, pp. 598-599     Transcription/Translation
Manuel de Mier y Teran to Stephen F. Austin, 20-Nov-1831, Vol. II, pp. 708-709     Transcription/Translation
Stephen F. Austin to Domingo Ugartechea (at Velasco), 29-Jun-1832, Vol. II, pp. 804-805     Transcription/Translation
Terán (at Croix, Tamaulipas) to Domingo Ugartechea (at Fort Velasco), 29-Jun-1832, Vol. II, pp. 805-806     Transcription/Translation
Francisco M. Duclor to Ayuntamiento of San Felipe, 27-Sep-1832, Vol. II, pp.867-868     Transcription/Translation
​A narrative report that discusses all of the research on
the ​several Forts Velasco is available at the link below:
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For those who have some fluency in Spanish, we can use some help in completing and improving the transcriptions and translations of some of the key primary documents
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Such documents can be found via links at the bottom of theses sub-pages:
Seizure of Schooner 
Cañon    Suspension of "Aduana Maritima de Galvezton"     Creation of First Fort Velasco     The Battle of Velasco    Barranco Colorado  ​

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  • The "Port of Galvezton" at the Brazos?
  • Schooner Cañon Seizure
  • Suspension of "Aduana Maritima de Galvezton"
  • Brazos Customs Post Re-Established
  • The First Fort Velasco
  • The Battle of Velasco
  • Weapons at the Battle
  • "Monument Square"?
  • The San Felipe Incident
  • The Texan Fort Velasco
  • 1836 Harkort Drawings
  • Velasco as Seat of Govt.
  • Civil War Forts
  • Tipton Walker Maps
  • 1890 Coode Map Series
  • Archaeology Reports
  • Historical Research
  • Interesting Links
  • Barranco Colorado
  • Spanish-Language Archives
  • Surfside Historical Trail Signs
  • Battle of Velasco Memorial