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Austin wrote the colony's legal code, including elements to control enslaved African Americans. Any slave who left a plantation without permission was to be tied up and whipped. Considerable fines were to be assessed for any person helping or harboring a runaway slave. [1]: 23–24 The capital of this new colony was San Felipe de Austin.
He became mayor of San Felipe de Austin on August 16, 1823, and served for four years.On July 5, 1824, as one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, he was granted six leagues and a labor of land in current Colorado and Austin counties.
Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American-born empresario.Known as the "Father of Texas" and the founder of Anglo Texas, [1] [2] he led the second and, ultimately, the successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families and their slaves from the United States to the Tejas region of Mexico in 1825.
San Felipe de Austin was established on the south side of the Brazos River in 1823 by Stephen F. Austin, who initially brought 297 families, the Old Three Hundred, under a contract with the Mexican Government. [3] The town's notable early inhabitants included Noah Smithwick and Horatio Chriesman. By 1830, the town had a population of about 200 ...
Stephen F. Austin is probably the best known and most successful empresario in Texas. The first group of colonists, known as the Old Three Hundred, arrived in 1822 and settled along the Brazos River, ranging from the Gulf of Mexico to near present-day Dallas. [5]
The stream is named for James (Jack) Cummins, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, who was granted the land at its mouth in 1824. Cummins built a sawmill and gristmill there in 1826. Cummins built a sawmill and gristmill there in 1826.
The small agricultural community traces its origins to the arrival of Churchill Fulshear, one of Stephen F. Austin's original Old Three Hundred. [7] [8] He moved from Tennessee to Texas in the summer of 1824 with his wife, Betsy Summers, daughter, Mary, and three sons, Benjamin, Graves, and Churchill Fulshear, Jr. [9]
James Elijah Brown Austin (October 3, 1803 – August 14, 1829) was an American settler and brother of empresario Stephen F. Austin, "The Father of Texas." Counted also as one of the Old Three Hundred, he is listed in Spanish and Mexican records as "Santiago E.B. Austin". James and Stephen F. Austin are both brothers of Emily Margaret Brown ...