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Felipe Enrique Neri Baron de Bastrop. Marker Text: Erected in recognition of the distinguished service to Texas Pioneer Red River empresario. Land commissioner of Austin's colony. Member of the Congress of Coahuila and Texas. In his honor this county and county seat have been named. (1770-1829). Pioneer Red River empresario, land commissioner ...
The region was inhabited by Native Americans when the first settlement was established at Point Pleasant by Indian trader Francois Bonaventure in 1785. In an aggressive colonization program, Spanish governor Baron de Carondelet granted 12 leagues square, or one million acres, in 1796 to Dutch nobleman Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop on ...
22 de nov. de 2023 · Bastrop County as well as the cities of Bastrop, Texas and Bastrop, Louisiana were named in honor of Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop…a man who never actually existed. The man who called himself the “Baron de Bastrop” was actually Philip Hendrik Nering Bögel, a Dutchman born in Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana on November 23, 1759.
The area was named Bastrop after the Dutch businessman Felipe Enrique Neri (also known as the Baron de Bastrop), who negotiated with the Mexicans to help facilitate Austin’s colonization plans. When it came time for Bastrop to join the fight for Texas’s independence in 1835, not only did our citizens join in, they led the charge.
Collection Details. Probably born in Holland in 1766. Bastrop was in Louisiana in 1795 and Texas by 1805, and settled in 1806 in San Antonio, from which he served as representative to the legislature of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Texas from 1824 until his death in 1827. He used his influence to help Moses Austin secure a land grant from ...
Via Hamburg - using the pseudonym Bastrop - Philip arrived in Philadelphia with wife and children before the end of the year. On June 21, 1796, he contracted with Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet to settle wheat farming families on his grant. In Spanish Louisiana Neri introduced himself as a Dutch nobleman, Baron de Bastrop who had fled the ...
It is of interest that Bastrop signed his name during the early period in Louisiana and Kentucky as "P. H. N. tut Baron de Bastrop," and it is possible to trace an evolution from this to the completely Spanish "Philipe Enrique Neri, El Baron de Bastrop." Mrs. Sylvia Nijhoff, of The Hague, Netherlands, kindly gave the information
