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The grant could be increased for large families or those wishing to establish a new industry, but the lands would be forfeited if they were not cultivated within two years. [ 6 ] The settlers who received their titles under Stephen's first contract, known today as the Old Three Hundred, made up the first organized, approved group of Anglo ...
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.
The first family of the United States is the family of the president of the United States, ... Texas on May 10, 2008. [3] 44 Family of Barack Obama:
The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad --the "Katy"--was the first railroad to enter Texas from the north. Racial violence continued by whites against blacks as they enforced white supremacy. Despite this, freedmen pursued education, organized new churches and fraternal organizations, and entered politics, winning local offices.
This is a list of notable hereditary and lineage organizations, and is informed by the database of the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance.
Forty-five multigenerational families made the Forbes’ first ever list of Decabillionaire Dynasties, or families worth $10 billion or more.
Moses Austin (October 4, 1761 – June 10, 1821) was an American businessman and pioneer who played a large part in the development of the lead industry in the early United States, especially in southwest Virginia and Missouri.
"On a little creek, called ever since Kerr's Creek, about two and a half miles east of the junction of the rivers, they erected cabins, August 1825. A few weeks later the first family, that of Francis Berry, joined them." -- p. 102, "De Witt's Colony," Ethel Zivley Rather [15] Also see History of Texas, Vol. 1, John Henry Brown, p. 124 [16]