A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . e secured an additional grant for one hundred andfifty families, whom he introduced. His colony wason the lower Guadalupe, and its capital he namedGuadalupe Victoria, being the modern town of Vic-toria. On April 15, 1825, Green Dewitt, of Missouri,secured a contract to locate four hundred familiesin the district bounded on the east by the LavacaRiver and Austins colony, on the north by the oldSan Antonio Road, on the south by De Leonscolony, and on the west by a line between the SanAntonio and Guadalupe Rivers. He was assisted
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . e secured an additional grant for one hundred andfifty families, whom he introduced. His colony wason the lower Guadalupe, and its capital he namedGuadalupe Victoria, being the modern town of Vic-toria. On April 15, 1825, Green Dewitt, of Missouri,secured a contract to locate four hundred familiesin the district bounded on the east by the LavacaRiver and Austins colony, on the north by the oldSan Antonio Road, on the south by De Leonscolony, and on the west by a line between the SanAntonio and Guadalupe Rivers. He was assistedby James Kerr, and the settlement was begun by establishingthe town of Gonzales in August, 1825. Lands were surveyedfor the colonists as rapidly as possible, but no families came in1825. It was the only American settlement west of the Coloradoat that time, and suffered greatlv from Indian massacres in itsearly history, so that it was moved to the Lavaca River forseveral years, at a point called Old Station. 10 145 Period Rulk 1S21 TO 1836 Martin deLeon. James Kerr. 146 A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. Period Rulk 1821 TO1836 Hayden Ed-wards
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