Editing Mainas missions (section)

=== 18th century ===
[[File:Maynas española y sus reclamaciones.png|thumb|The [[General Command of Maynas]] (in mustard yellow), a district of the [[Viceroyalty of Peru]], as it appeared {{Circa|1802}}. Missions were dispersed throughout this area.]]
[[Samuel Fritz]] served as superior of the Mainas missions from 1704–12.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Anderson|first=Gerald H.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQ8BFk9K0ToC|title=Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions|date=1998|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=0-02-864604-5|location=New York|pages=229|oclc=36017191}}</ref> Fritz sought to expand the missions further outwards, which provoked trouble with Portuguese slave traders.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}

After the Jesuits were expelled in 1767, Mainas came under the control of [[Franciscan]]s.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Hsia|first=Ronnie Po-chia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MsZKDwAAQBAJ|title=A Companion to Early Modern Catholic Global Missions|date=2017|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-35528-6|location=Boston|pages=57|oclc=1019889142}}</ref> At the time of the expulsion the Jesuits had between 25 and 37 Mainas missions with about 14,000 Indians in residence.<ref name="Merino and Newson">{{cite journal |last1=Merino |first1=Olga |last2=Newson |first2=Linda A. |title=Jesuit Missions in Spanish America: The Aftermath of the Expulsion |journal=Revista de Historia de América |date=1994 |issue=118 |pages=10, 20 |jstor=20139901 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20139901}}</ref>