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Green DeWitt (February 12, 1787 – May 18, 1835) was an empresario in Mexican Texas. He brought families from the United States to what is now South-central Texas and founded the DeWitt Colony . Missouri
Martín De León died of cholera in 1833, a year of epidemics that swept North America along its waterways. [17] His estate was worth $500,000. [18] De León is buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Victoria, Texas. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark number 6542 placed at Evergreen Cemetery in 1936 acknowledges Don Martin de León's contribution to ...
The DeWitt Colony (c. 1820s through the 1840s) was a settlement in Mexico (now Texas) founded by Green DeWitt. From lands belonging to that colony, the present Texas counties of DeWitt, Guadalupe and Lavaca were created. The hub of the colony was primarily located, however, in what is now Gonzales County. The first battle of the Texas ...
De León's Colony was established in 1824 in the northern Coahuila y Tejas state of the First Mexican Republic, by empresario Martín De León. It was the only ethnically Mexican colony founded during the Mexican period (1824-1835) that is located within the present-day U.S. state of Texas .
At the 2010 census, [9] of 2010, there were 124 people, 49 households and 33 families living in the city. The population density was 516.7 inhabitants per square mile (199.5/km 2).
DeWitt County: 123: Cuero: 1846: Goliad County, Gonzales County and Victoria County: Green DeWitt, an empresario who founded an early colony in Texas 19,929: 909 sq mi (2,354 km 2) Dickens County: 125: Dickens: 1876: Bexar County: J.A. Dickens, who died at the Battle of the Alamo 1,711: 904 sq mi (2,341 km 2) Dimmit County: 127: Carrizo Springs ...
Patricia de la Garza De León (1775–1849) was the matriarch of one of the prominent founding families of early Texas. Doña Patricia raised ten children, some of whom helped change the course of history. [ 1 ]
When Victoria, Texas was founded by empresario Martín De León and his wife Patricia de la Garza De León, they named it after Guadalupe Victoria, who had just become the first president of Mexico. [3] The town was platted by surveyor José María Jesús Carbajal [4] around a Market Square designed in 1839 by Edward Linn and known today as ...