The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 / 1624 / Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

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18. The convent of Damaràn had charge of four hundred baptized persons.

Father Fray Jacinto de San Fulgencio, commissary and procurator of that province of San Nicolàs of Filipinas, while at this court of Madrid gave a relation of other houses, in addition to those enumerated, which are as follows:

Layavan

19. The convent of Layavan, with seven hundred families in its charge.

Camigui

20. That of Camigui, with the bay of Liangàn, has six hundred families.

Baqua

21. That of Baqua has charge of one thousand two hundred families divided among six villages.

Parasao

22. That of Parasao governs eight hundred families who live in that place.