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Jacinto de Barrios y Jáuregui

Jacinto de Barrios y Jáuregui
Governor of the Spanish Colony of Texas
In office
1751–1759
Preceded by Pedro del Barrio Junco y Espriella
Succeeded by Ángel de Martos y Navarrete
Governor of Coahuila (1st time)
In office
February 1759 – September 10 of 1762
Preceded by Ángel Martos y Navarrette
Succeeded by Lorenzo Cancio Sierra y Cienfuegos
Governor of Coahuila (2nd time)
In office
December 10 of 1765 – February 6 of 1768
Preceded by Diego Ortiz Parrilla
Succeeded by José Costilla y Terán
Personal details
Profession Military and Governor of Coahuila and Texas

Jacinto de Barrios Leal y Jáuregui was a Spanish soldier who served as Governor of the Province of Coahuila (1759–1762; 1765–1768) and Texas (1751–59).

Jacinto de Barrios Leal y Jáuregui was a native of Cadiz (in Andalusia, Spain).

Around the year 1718, Jacinto started to serve the Spanish Crown as a soldier and was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of cavalry while he participated in the campaigns developed against Italia. He was appointed governor and Captain General of Texas in 1751, arriving at Los Adaes in June of that year. During his government, between other actions, he founded the Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá and the Presidios of San Agustín de Ahumada and San Sabá. In addition, he moved the San Xavier missions and San Francisco Xavier Presidio to the San Marcos River. In 1751, in early his term as governor, three Frenchmen were found to have settled along the Trinity River to trade with the Native Americans. The Spanish authorities arrested and expelled them from the colony.

During the summer of 1756, Barrios was appointed governor of Coahuila, while his partner, Angel Martos y Navarrete, obtained the governorship of Texas. The men exchanged their territories to govern to allow Barrios stay in Texas longer (until 1759) so he could finish the construction the Presidio of San Agustín de Ahumada and establish a civil settlement in the near places to presidio. Barrios made a great fortune in the fur trade with several Native American people such as the Bidais and Orcoquizas, through a strict control of indigenous industry; So, he bought French goods in , and sold leathers to the indigenous population of place. Its practice of smuggling with the French Louisiana became Barrios in a very criticized figure in Texas, being the most criticized governor of the province (in this time, Texas was a province). He ended his term in Texas in 1759.


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