FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Question
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negotiate a treaty with the American Indian tribes
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establish a colony near what is present-day Gonzales
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continue the work that Moses Austin had started in Texas
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join with Martin De Leon doubling the size of his land holdings
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Detailed explanation-1: -The DeWitt Colony (c. 1820s through the 1840s) was a settlement in Mexico (now Texas) founded by Green DeWitt. From lands belonging to that colony, the present Texas counties of DeWitt, Guadalupe and Lavaca were created. The hub of the colony was primarily located, however, in what is now Gonzales County.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1825, Green Dewitt was granted an empresario contract to settle land immediately to the southwest of Austin’s colony. In 1827, the current site of Gonzales on the Guadalupe River was established as the colony’s capitol.
Detailed explanation-3: -Green DeWitt. The second most successful colony in Texas, after those established by Stephen F. Austin, was that of Green DeWitt. This colony, which neighbored Austin’s to the southwest, was home to the town of Gonzales, famous for its role in the Texas Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -De León’s Colony was established in 1824 in the northern Coahuila y Tejas state of the First Mexican Republic, by empresario Martín De León. It was the only ethnically Mexican colony founded during the Mexican period (1824-1835) that is located within the present-day U.S. state of Texas.
Detailed explanation-5: -De Leon’s Colony was the only empresario colony in Texas that consisted mostly of Mexican families. The Colony was established in 1824 after Martín de Leon (1765-1833) petitioned the provincial deputation of Texas for permission to settle forty-one families from Tamaulipas on the lower “reaches” of the Guadalupe River.