There was NO MEXICO in 1703 either - just Spain, and NO TEXAS either.
Technically I suppose the location had other names and ways of referencing it, don't you!
BTW, not only "things you forget" but "thinks you can't read" - and to think you want to be a spelling nanny!!
Said that, didn't I?
Technically I suppose the location had other names and ways of referencing it, don't you!
Something like "mouth of the Rio Grande. There wasn't much there on either side of the river before what is now Matamoros was founded. Or many people, even Indians, to refer to it.
Original sentence fragment:
it's been in America since 1703 near Brownsville TX
I would gig you on 1703 and "America" but the two continents were called that in 1703, well before in fact. But there was no Texas, probably not even a Tejas, (the word comes from the Caddo Indian language, meaning Friends or Allies) Not much action that far north in New Spain in 1703 though. Too much nasty dry territory to cross to get there, from either direction. Even today there isn't much between the Corpus and Brownsville areas, and there's a whole county (Kendy), 50 miles, with no place to stop and buy gas or get water along US 77 between Sarita and Raymondville. Flat and very bleak, once known as the Wild Horse Desert. You might see a cow along that 50 miles, or you might not not, even the cows are pretty thin on the ground there, plus they tend to blend into the scrub.