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Settlers Charles Burkham, Claiborne Wright and Walter Pool, and five Indian traders and twelve families settled between 1816 and 1818. [1] [2] In 1825, Pecan Point's land was bought by Jacob Black, who sold it to Robert Hamilton in January 1835. He used the land to establish Pecan Point Plantation, which was destroyed by the changing river ...
Peter Kerr or Carr was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on September 12, 1795. [1]Kerr and his partner, William Kerr, received title to a league of land now in Washington County, Texas, on August 10, 1824.
Statue of Antonio Gil y Barbo, Plaza Principal, Nacogdoches, erected in 1997 The Old Stone Fort, built by Gil Ybarbo about 1790, and later reconstructed.. Dón Antonio Gil Ybarbo (1729–1809), also known as Gil Ybarbo or Gil Ibarbo was a Spanish military personnel and trader of the Spanish Texas times, who played a crucial role in the development of Nacogdoches, Texas in 1779.
The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement ...
In the early days, pecan crops were typically sold at markets in Houston. [1] In 1905, one Mills County citizen reported earnings of $49.10 from a single tree. [1] By 1929, pecan production had developed into a solid industry mostly in the southern part of the county, which became a recognized center for development of new varieties.
The terms of the contract involving titles and the retention of property by the company led to problems between settlers and the company for many years. The Hedgcoxe War was an armed rebellion against the land company's agent Henry Oliver Hedgcoxe on July 16, 1852, in which company records were seized and taken to the Dallas County Courthouse ...
Many different settler groups came to Texas over the centuries. Spanish colonists in the 17th century linked Texas to the rest of New Spain. French and English traders and settlers arrived in the 18th century, and more numerous German, Dutch, Swedish, Irish, Scottish, Scots-Irish, and Welsh settled in the years leading up to Texas independence in 1836.
When Rector reached Pecan Point he found the settlers greatly agitated. The Indians were reported to be stealing and killing livestock and threatening war. Rector immediately ordered the Indians to leave the area, but the Shawnees refused. Calling out sixty-three militiamen under Major Pierson, Rector marched on the main Shawnee village.