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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.
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.
Perry was the sole heir to Stephen Fuller Austin following his death. [ 2 ] [ 23 ] Half the estate went to her immediately and half the "entire estate reverted to Emily" in 1837 upon the death of Brown Austin's eight-year-old son, who happened to be named Stephen F. Austin, Jr. [ 23 ] Everything was bequeathed not in James Perry's name and not ...
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 ...
The Austins' second child was born in 1793 and named Stephen Fuller Austin in honor of his father's brother and his mother's great uncle. Their daughter Emily Austin followed in 1795. A second son, James Elijah Brown Austin , was born in 1803.
Stephen F. Austin State University [a] (SFASU or SFA) is a public university in Nacogdoches, Texas, United States. It was founded as a teachers' college in 1923 [8] and subsequently renamed after one of Texas's founding fathers, Stephen F. Austin. Its campus resides on part of the homestead of Thomas Jefferson Rusk.
It was a forced-labor farm and the homestead and domicile of many early Texas settlers, including Emily Austin Perry, James Franklin Perry, William Joel Bryan, Stephen Fuller Austin, and Guy Morrison Bryan. [1] [2] The land was operated as a working forced-labor farm producing cotton and sugar cane from 1832 until 1863. [3]