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Hace 1 día · By 1821, DeWitt was aware that Moses Austin had obtained a grant to bring colonists to Spanish Texas. DeWitt petitioned Mexican authorities for a similar grant and eventually received an empresario contract to establish a settlement of his own. DeWitt and his wife Sarah moved their family to the colony in 1826.
Hace 1 día · Austin came to Texas in 1821 to continue his father's work. Moses Austin received permission to bring Anglo colonists into Spanish Texas but before his plan took shape, Moses Austin died. His dying wish was for his son Stephen to fulfill the dream.
2 de mar. de 2024 · It was Moses Austin who dreamed of colonizing Spanish Texas with American settlers, but he died before doing so. His son, Stephen F. Austin, took on the job. By 1829, Austin had brought 1,200 families to the Texas colony. The growing number of Americans moving to Texas now worried Mexico. So, in 1830, they began to limit U.S. immigration.
17 de mar. de 2024 · Moses Austin was born in Connecticut in 1761 and moved to Virginia as a young man to get involved in the lead mining and smelting business. The lead business in Virginia was good, so profitable that Austin and men like him had essentially exhausted the supply of the precious metal by the late 1790s.
5 de mar. de 2024 · Moses Austin. After receiving a land grant from the Spanish government, Moses Austin planned to establish the first American colony in Spanish Texas. However, he died before his colonial dream became a reality. His son, Stephen F. Austin, succeeded him as leader of the Texas colony.
Hace 5 días · When Moses Austin succumbed to pneumonia in June 1821, it fell to his eldest son, Stephen Fuller Austin, to take up his dream of a colony in Texas. Stephen F. Austin was twenty-seven, a bachelor, and preparing to become a lawyer/judge in Arkansas.
Hace 1 día · After independence, the Mexican government implemented the policy, granting Moses Austin, a banker from Missouri, a large tract of land in Texas. Austin died before he could bring his plan of recruiting American settlers for the land to fruition, but his son, Stephen F. Austin , brought over 300 American families into Texas. [34]