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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.
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.
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]
In 1785, he married into the affluent iron mining family of Mary Brown, who then became known as Mary Brown Austin. [5] 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.
One of the earliest photographs of the Stephen F. Austin, dated May 31, 1924, shows an enormous seated banquet in the 11th-floor covered roof garden, sometimes referred to as the "Longhorn Ballroom."
Emily Austin Bryan Perry (June 22, 1795 – 1851) was the sister of Stephen F. Austin and an early settler of Texas. [1] She was an heir to Austin's estate when he died in 1836. [2] She achieved significant political, economic and social status as a woman in Texas at a time when women were often not treated equal to men.
Stephen “tWitch” Boss is survived by his wife, children and more extended relatives after his December 2022 death at age 40. “It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to share my ...
“To fans of Stephen and our family and friends, I want to be clear that my only intention in writing the book is to share my own story as well as part of my life with Stephen to help other ...