Texas and Mexico (Geographic Keyword)
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Strategic Alliances 1750-1820: Marriage and inheritance patterns among the first Spanish colonial settlers along the Rio Grande in Texas (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gender in Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Six Nuevo Santander settlements were established along the Rio Grande in Texas and Tamaulipas. Laredo and Dolores were on the northern bank, while Revilla, Mier, Camargo, and Reynosa lined the river’s southern bank. Each municipality’s territory included 1767 land grants to settlers that straddled the Rio Grande. These...