 Vicente Alvarez Travieso was born in 1705 in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain).He was the son of José Álvarez and Catarina (Cayetano) Travieso.In 1730, the Spanish Crown decided to sponsor ten or eleven families from the Canary Islands to emigrate to Villa de San Fernando, (modern San Antonio, Texas) because of a supposed threat to Spanish interests by the French from Louisiana.