

Denis crossed the region on his way to San Juan Bautista. Much impressed by the setting and the availability of water, they noted that the area might make a promising site for future settlement. The next group of Spanish explorers, an expedition led by two Franciscans, fathers Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares and Isidro Félix de Espinosa, and a military officer, Pedro de Aguirre, did not reach the area until April 1709. The Indians, as Massanet recorded in his diary, called the place Yanaguana he, however, renamed the site San Antonio de Padua to celebrate the memorial day of St. Nearby they found a group of Payayas living on the riverbank. From the Handbook of Texas Online: The first Europeans to explore the region came with an expedition in 1691 led by Domingo Terán de los Ríos and Fray Damián Massanet, who evidently reached the San Antonio River near where San Juan Capistrano Mission was later founded. The original county was divided into 128 additional counties. In 1772 the seat of the government of Spanish Texas moved to Bexar. The villa of San Fernando de Bexar was the first municipality in the Spanish province of Texas in 1731.
#Bexar county court records registration#
*Statewide registration for births and deaths began in 1903. Register and log in to search digital archivesīexar County, Texas Record Dates Known Beginning Dates for Major County Records Spanish church records 1737-1859 and Spanish City Probate records from 1843, land records from 1700’s, Records from 1837, death records from 1903,

County Courthouse Ĭounty Clerk has birth records from 1838, marriage The County is located in the central area of the state. The county was named for Presidio San Antonio de Béxar.
