Tumacacori

Tumacacori
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As Jesuit Eusebio Francisco Kino and his party approached the Pima settlement of Tumacacori in January 1691, they rode the wave of a century of expansion northward along New Spain's west coast corridor.

In 1767 King Charles III of Spain, for political reasons, abruptly banished the Jesuits from all his realms. The Franciscan, who took over the missionary effort inherited the woes that had frustrated the Jesuits: restless neophytes, Apache hostility, disease, encroaching settlers, and lack of government support. The Tubac garrison was transferred to Tucson in 1776, and by 1786 only a hundred Indians remained at Tumacacori.

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