San Antonio, San Pascual, Batangas: Historical Data

Historical data from the National Library of the Philippines.

Full transcription of the so-called “Historical Data” for the barrio of San Antonio in the Municipality of San Pascual, Batangas, the original scanned documents at the National Library of the Philippines Digital Collections not having OCR or optical character recognition properties. This transcription has been edited for grammar, spelling and punctuation where possible. The original pagination is provided for citation purposes.

[Note to the reader.]

At the time when this document was created, the barrio of San Antonio was still a part of Bauan rather than San Pascual. The latter did not become a separate municipality until the year 1969, after the passage of Republic Act No. 6166.

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HISTORY AND CULTURAL LIFE OF SAN ANTONIO

PART ONE – HISTORY

1. The present official name of the barrio is San Antonio.

2. The name of this barrio before was “Butuhan.” It got this name due to the existence of too many banana plants known as “butuhan.” The people planted too many of these plants because the leaves of these plants were used to wrap betel leaves.

At present, the popular name of the barrio is San Antonio, in honor of its barrio lieutenant before, whose name was Antonio Arano. This lieutenant was believed to have had a very good administration over the barrio. The people appreciated him so much that after his death, they named the barrio San Antonio.

Felipe Conti & Alejo de la Rosa.

1.  Cabeza	Joaquin Talain	8.  Teniente	Antonio Arano
2.  Cabeza	Mauricio Conti	9.  Teniente	Esteban de la Rosa
3.  Cabeza	Alejo de la Rosal	10. Teniente	Lucas Caringal
4.  Cabeza	Francisco Sandoval	11. Teniente	Silvestre Calingasan
5.  Cabeza	Sixto	12. Teniente	Anselmo Buhat
6.  Cabeza	Joaquin Talain	13. Teniente	Maximo Masagpag
7.  Cabeza	Domingo Conti	14. Teniente	Eugenio Ilagan

Real is one of its sitios which is now depopulated. This is at the mouth of the Hagonoy River. This is a place where the fishermen of San Antonio go out to fish.

b. From 1915-1918, the sugar industry was in progress; 1921 – burning of the house of one Cirilo Magnayi.

1918 – Locusts destroyed the rice plants of the barrio.

Japanese Occupation – seizure of food, especially rice.

Note: San Antonio, as a barrio being very near the poblacion, is almost linked with the latter in all phases of its existence. Hence, the historical data for the barrio somewhat becomes similar, especially in traditions, customs, legends, etc.

Prepared by:

(MRS.) BENITA A. GENEROSO

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