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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.
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
Moses Austin, the father of Stephen F. Austin, had his party accepted by Spanish authorities in exchange for defense against foreign threats. However, Mexico had declared independence from Spain before the elder Austin died. [citation needed] Santa Anna marched north to bring Texas back under Mexican control by a brutal show of force. His ...
The Goliad massacre was an event of the Texas Revolution that occurred on March 27, 1836, following the Battle of Refugio and the Battle of Coleto; 425–445 prisoners of war from the Texian Army of the Republic of Texas were executed by the Mexican Army in the town of Goliad, Texas.
Stephen F. Austin beat a team badly enough to bend the fabric of time on Thursday.. By the end of the first half, the Lumberjacks were up 70-0 against North American University, an NAIA school in ...
An assistant women’s bowling coach at Stephen F. Austin is out after the university discovered he cheated on his wife, who is the team’s head coach, with a student-athlete. SFA assistant Steve ...
[20] [21] Colonizing empresario Stephen F. Austin managed the regional affairs of the mostly American-born population – 20% of them slaves [22] – under the terms of the generous government land grants. [23]