Salvador Rodrígez (1688–?) was a Spanish politician who served as

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San Antonio, Texas San Antonio ( ; Spanish for "Anthony of Padua, Saint Anthony") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio. San Antonio is the List of Texas metropolitan areas, third-largest metropolitan area in Texa ...

. His family arrived in San Antonio from the

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, in 1731 with other Canarian families to bring order and populate this border region with French Louisiana.

Biography

He was born about 1688 in

Lanzarote Lanzarote (, , ) is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands, off the north coast of Africa and from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering , Lanzarote is the fourth-largest of the islands in the archipelago. With 163,230 inhabi ...

, Canary Islands, Spain.Bexar genealogy of Canarian settlers of San Antonio
/ref> His parents were Francisco Rodriguez and Isabel de los Reyes, natives from Tenerife.Balbuena Castellano, José Manuel. "La odisea de los canarios en Texas y Luisiana" (The odyssey of the canaries in Texas and Louisiana). Chapter IV (Organización de los Isleños); (ed) 2007,editorial: Anroart Ediciones. In Canary, he was a cheese maker, but in 1730 he and his family emigrated to San Antonio, where they arrived in 1731 with others Canarian families in order populate this region. He arrived to San Antonio when he was 42 years old. Ranchos de Texas y Lanzarote
He was regidor of San Antonio. Rodriguez married the Canarian Maria Perez Cabrera (native from Lanzarote), with who had one child: Patricio Rodríguez.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rodriguez, Salvador People from Lanzarote Politicians from San Antonio People of Spanish Texas Texas Isleño people 18th-century people from New Spain