Gayoso Lemos, Manuel

Contents:

• MANUEL LUIS GAYOSO LEMOS Y AMOR
• MANUEL GAYOSO LEMOS
• MANUEL GAYOSO DE LEMOS
• MANUEL LUIS GAYOSO GAYOSO LEMOS

MANUEL LUIS GAYOSO LEMOS Y AMOR

Manuel Gayoso Lemos Amorín y Magallan was born Oporto, Portugal, on May 30, 1747, the son of Spanish nsul Manuel Luis Gayoso Lemos y Sarmiento and Thera Angéli Amorín y Magallan.

Gayoso's rrponnce wh ernors of Texas and the viceroy of New Spa durg 1797–99 ncerned the activi of Philip Nolan, whom Gayoso nsired a dangero enemy of Spa, and the prervatn of Louisiana as a barrier to Amerin expansn to Texas and New Spa.

Holm, Gallant Emissary: The Polil Career of Manuel Gayoso Lemos the Mississippi Valley, 1789–1799 (Ph.

MANUEL GAYOSO LEMOS

Holm, Gayoso: The Life of a Spanish Governor the Mississippi Valley, 1789–1799 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Universy Prs, 1965).

“Gayoso Lemos, Manuel, ”. Don Manuel Luis Gayoso Lemos. Manuel Luis Gayoso served as ernor of the Spanish loni of Louisiana and Wt Florida om 1797 until his ath 1799.

MANUEL GAYOSO DE LEMOS

Born Oporto, Portugal, on May 30, 1747, Manuel Luis Gayoso Lemos y Amor was the son of Manuel Luis Gayoso Lemos y Sarmiento and Thera Angeli Amor y Magallan.

Relatively ltle is known about his early life, but Gayoso may have been ted at Wtmster College England. Gayoso was named ernor of the Nahotchez district 1787 and remaed that posn until 1795 when Spa officially ced the district to the Uned Stat wh the Treaty of San Lorenzo, also known as Pckney’s Treaty.

MANUEL LUIS GAYOSO GAYOSO LEMOS

Gayoso remaed Natchez for another two years, helpg smooth the transn, until Kg Charl IV appoted him ernor-general of Spanish Louisiana and Wt Florida 1797. His fluency Spanish and English enabled Gayoso to munite wh Amerins encroachg on the borr at a time when Spanish officials feared US expansn. In anticipatn of this possibily, Gayoso strengthened Spanish fens while office.