History of the San Agustín Mission Site
June 8th, 1774 - Visita Population Described by Ramos
Fr. Antonio Ramos visits
the visita of San Agustín in the company
of San Xavier's minister, Fr. Juan Gorgoll, and Fr.
Joseph Mathias Moreno, secretary of the visitation.
He counted 239 Pimas, including 60 married couples,
17 widowers, 14 widows, 21 boys over 12 years old,
40 minor boys, 7 girls over 12 years old, and 19 of
minor age. No non-Indians were living in the community.
Ramos said that uniting the villages of San Xavier
and Tucson would cause "grave inconviences,"
besides there was not sufficient irrigation water
for combined maintainance. He also noted that the
Indians were absent from both villages for most of
the year. (Baldonado, The Kiva, 1959, pp 23-24)
Reference and text provided by Bernard L. Fontana.
