Jacinto de Barrios Leal y Jáuregui was a Spanish soldier who served as Governor of the Province of Coahuila (1759–1762; 1765–1768) and Texas (1751–59).
[1] Around the year 1718, Jacinto started to serve the Spanish Crown as a soldier and participated in the wars between the Spain and Italia.
[4][2] Barrios chose his lieutenant governor, Bernardo de Miranda, to lead an expedition to the modern Hill Country with the aim of finding some silver mines he had heard were there.
[2] In 1756, Barrios was appointed governor of Coahuila by the Viceroy of New Spain, while his partner, Angel Martos y Navarrete, was elect to govern Texas.
So he traded with Native American peoples such as the Bidais and Orcoquizas, through a control of indigenous industry, which made him a great fortune.