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76 left & that is split. The Church is full of Bats Nests, but mass is occasionally said to some 8 or 10 Mexican families who live within the walls of the Mission The Missionaries who superintended this establishment were then of San Francisco, who resided at the Oriel end of the church in a fine suite of rooms, shaded by a broad corridor.

 This as well as the other Missions were walled in so as to protect the sacred teachers & those indians they were reclaiming? & who were instructed in agriculture &c by the pious fathers from the attacks of Comanches &c.
 Independent of the rich lands this Mission had on the river & around it, eleven leagues of pasture lands were donated to it, commencing at the Loma del Paderon 12 miles east of San Antonio & running 7 or 8 miles West of the Medio creek. This land is now in litigation, MacMullen versus Certain lands speculators who have located a part of it.
 One & a half Miles is the Mission of San Juan, on the Eastern land of the San Antonio river, it is in ruins; part of the belfry & walls only remaining; here reside a few Mexican families