Nabaydacu

The Nabedache were a Hasinai Caddo people of the Neches River country in eastern Texas. Their settlements lay on the western side of the Hasinai confederacy. When the Frenchman Henri Joutel encountered them in 1686, they lived near the headwaters of the Neches. They later occupied a village known as San Pedro to the southwest.

In 1690 Spanish soldiers and friars founded San Francisco de los Tejas among the Nabedache, the first Spanish mission in eastern Texas. Its church stood in the midst of their settlement. An epidemic struck the community in 1690 and 1691. The mission was abandoned in 1693, but Spanish missionaries returned to the region in 1716. The Nabedache moved up the Neches between 1779 and 1784, and their name remained on maps of Texas in the early nineteenth century.