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Content: The East Texans did resettle, but reluctantly. San Antonio was hotter and drier than East Texas and required irrigation for farming. Spanish efforts to colonize other areas of Texas were slowed by Apache and Comanche raids. Governor de Ripperdahoped to form an alliance with powerful Native Americans in the region to fight against the Apache. However, the raids continued, which discouraged settlement. Y’Barboand Nacogdoches
The East Texans resented the changes. The leader of the East Texans Gil 
Y’Barbo
asked Governor 
Ripperda
to allow them to return to their former homes. The governor refused, but he permitted some East Texans to settle along the Trinity River. In 1774, they settled near present day Madisonville. They named the town Bucareliafter a Spanish general.