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objected to the appointment, which he said that was null and void. So Múzquiz never served as governor and submitted his resignation the office citing "family reasons". Even the support of a large number of Anglo-Americans in Texas for his appointment did not get
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While he defended him, the government he represented required the delivery to ecclesiastical authorities of all the funds in support of the army to the north, where they fought many of the inhabitants of
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Francisca Castañeda in San
Antonio on December 16, 1823, and had eight children in a period of more than ten years from 1825 to 1847. Two of his children were born in 1830: Francisca and Ramón Músquiz Castañeda. The last of them followed the example of his father, occupying for long periods the
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Coahuila and Texas in June 1835 but never served in office and resigned in July of that year.
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Mexican authorities, although he rejected the convention that took place in San Felipe in October 1832 as illegal and opposed the Anglo-American troops. During the years of his mandate, in several of his letters to the
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