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Name of Town |
Date of Foundation |
Basis / Source |
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Agno, Pangasinan |
27 July 1832 |
Erección de Pueblos |
According to Buzeta’s Diccionario Geográfico, Estadístico, Histórico de las Islas Filipinas (1851) Agno was formerly a part of Zambales, founded by Augustinian Recollects in 1610, but not as a town. Fr. Pedro de San Francisco’s Historia General de los Religiosos Descalzos (1756) and Hilario Ocio’s Reseña Biográfica de los Religiosos de la Provincia del Santísimo Rosario (1891) mention Agno was a visita (sub-parish under a larger parish) of the town of Bolinao.
Records from the Erección de Pueblos mention that Agno was still a barrio of the town of Balincaguin by the early 1800s. In 1831, Governor-General Enrile reported the petition of Agno and Bani to be separated from their parent towns of Balincaguin and Bolinao in terms of spiritual and temporal matters and their formation into a new town. Governor-General Enrile approved the separation of Agno and Bani from their respective parent towns and their establishment into formal parishes on 27 July 1832.
References:
de San Francisco, Pedro. Historia General de los Religiosos Descalzos del Orden de los Hermitaños del Gran Padre y Doctor de la Iglesia San Agustín, de la Congregación de España y de las Indias: Tomo IV, del 1661 al 1690. Zaragoza: Imprenta de Francisco Moreno, 1756.
Erección de Pueblos, SDS 14127, Zambales, 1767-1896, Expediente 5, s34-79.
Ocio, Hilario. Reseña biográfica de los religiosos de la provincia del Santísimo Rosario de Filipinas desde su fundación hasta nuestros dias: Parte Primera, comprende desde 1587-1650. Manila: Establecimiento Tipografico del Real Colegio de Santo Tomás, 1891.