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1833 map of Coahuila and Texas; Austin's Colony is the large pink area in the southeast. The "Old Three Hundred" were 297 grantees who purchased 307 parcels of land from Stephen Fuller Austin in Mexican Texas. Each grantee was head of a household, or, in some cases, a partnership of unmarried men.
English: A requirement of the Anglo-American empresario Stephen F. Austin's contract with the Mexican government included compiling a map of his Texas colony, which he completed in 1829 with the aid of information from a recent Mexican-government sponsored Boundary Commission led by Mexican General Manuel Mier y Terán.
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.
1833 map depicting Robertson's Colony in green, north-central Texas, as Austin & Williams Grant. Robertson's Colony was an empresario colonization effort during the Mexican Texas period. It is named after Sterling C. Robertson, but had previously been known by other names. It has also been referred to as the Nashville Colony, after the ...
It is located in front of the N. H. Davis Museum and Pioneer Complex, 308 Liberty Street, Montgomery, Texas. Anglo-American Stephen F. Austin became the first Empresario to successfully establish a colony in Texas. Under the 1823 Imperial Colonization Law of Mexico, an empresario could receive a land grant within the Mexican province of Texas ...
sold land grants Stephen F. Austin: Austin's Colony between Brazos and Colorado rivers San Felipe De Austin took over his father Moses Austin's empresario contract David G. Burnet: East Texas, northwest of Nacogdoches sold his land grant to the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company Martín De León: De León's Colony: Victoria
On January 1, 2008, the site was transferred from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to the Texas Historical Commission, [5] which operates it as a state historic site open to the public. The site features a museum, interpretive trails, a statue of Stephen F. Austin, a replica log cabin, the 1847 Josey Store and relevant historical markers ...
He later served in the Army of the Republic of Texas from April through July, 1836. He was awarded 320 acres (1.3 km 2) of land in Wood County for his service, but he and his family were forced to abandon their land during the Runaway Scrape. For his service during the Battle of San Jacinto, he received a further 640 acres (2.6 km 2) in Wood County