In 1686, with a colony of Tlaxcaltecas, the town of San Miguel de Aguayo (Bustamente) was founded and on September 16, 1687, Don Diego de Villarreal the yonger gave possession of the lands, indicated for this town, to the Tlaxcalteca Indians, Don Melchor Cásares, José Felipe, Santiago and Silvestre Salvador in charge of their government.39 With another Tlaxcaltecan colony, on May 16, 1687, the Marquis de Aguayo founded the town of Nuestra Señora de San Juan, a foundation that was not consolidated.40 In 1690, Captain Juan Villarreal and his companions Don Francisco Barbarigo and Antonio González discovered the first mines in Boca de los Leones and, in lands ceded by the first one, the town of San Pedro de Boca de Leones (Villadalma) was founded the same year.41  In 1693, the general Don Ignacio de Maya populated and founded the mine of Santiago de las Sabinas near Boca de Leones (Sabinas Hidalgo.)”42  Already by 1680 Ciénega de Flores existed, as is found in a statement of María Cantú, widow of Diego de Hinojosa, legitimate daughter of populating and conquering parents of this kingdom: “... I say that there are more than 14 years (the statement is from 1695) that I have lived and settled in la Ciénega that they call Flores, from the jurisdiction they call los Salinas, in 4 caballerías of land with a water canal from a stream that is formed from said marsh [obviously misspelled as cienega rather then cienaga.]; the said lands, in virtue of a license and permission which Sergeant-Major Diego de Villarreal, who was magistrate of said jurisdiction, gave me; in virtue of which and this region being deserted, I have made a planting field and a canal and ... I have a quantity of minor, white, and  ovine livestock and a brood of horses; and a resident with two children and three sons-in-law, who assist in that frontier against the invasion of the enemy Indians.”43


38.               “Proceeding of the visit of the Marquis of Aguayo, 1685,” published by J.E. González: Apuntes, Hist. Ecles., p. 271.
 
39.               Ibid., p. 272.
 
40.               Ibid.
43.               “Solicitation of grants of land, Monterrey, September 5, 1695,” A.M.M., Civil, Vol. XXIII, Exp. 66, f. 78.  Extract in Cavazos: Cedulario, pp. 51-52, #56.