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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.
Before this plan could be implemented, Moses Austin died in Missouri in 1821. That same year Mexico gained independence from Spain. [2]: 17–18 Stephen F. Austin agreed to carry out his father's plan for a colony. At the end of the summer of 1821, he and a small group of Anglo-American settlers crossed into Texas.
Under the 1825 contract, Empresario Stephen F. Austin granted land to a number of Anglo-American colonists in 1831. Some of these settlers in Austin's Second Colony received leagues of land along the eastern boundary of the colony in what is today western Montgomery County; they were the first Anglo-American settlers in that county.
In 1826, League had joined the colonization efforts of Stephen F. Austin. In January 1827, League led settlers to join the Green DeWitt group. In April of the same year, he led settlers to join Austin's colony. [14] [15] League empowered Austin to act on his behalf in regards to the association's petition. In the paperwork, Austin referred to ...
Stephen F. Austin delivered the convention's resolutions to Mexico City. Immediately after Santa Anna had taken office in April, he had handed over all decision-making authority to his vice president, Valentín Gómez Farías, and retired to the countryside. Farías enacted many federalist reforms, which angered citizens and army leaders. [38]
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 .
The southern boundary was a colony belonging to Stephen F. Austin, the first empresario in Texas; he had received special permission to establish his colony several years previously. East of Edwards's grant was the former Sabine Free State , an area which had been essentially lawless for several decades.
On October 1, 1832, 55 political delegates met at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Texas. Notably absent was any representation from San Antonio de Béxar, where many of the native Mexican settlers lived. The delegates elected Stephen F. Austin, a highly respected empresario, as president of the convention.