USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Martín De León, the only Mexican empresario to found a colony in Texas, was born in 1765 in Burgos, Nuevo Santander (now Tamaulipas), where his parents, Bernardo and María Galván De León, settled after moving from Burgos, Spain.

Detailed explanation-2: -Empresario Martín De León founded the city of Victoria and played a key role in settling the Texas Coastal Bend. De León was born in 1765 to an aristocratic family in Burgos, Mexico. After serving as a soldier, De León married and planned to settle his new family in Texas.

Detailed explanation-3: -De León and his wife Patricia de la Garza established De León’s Colony, the only predominantly Mexican colony in Texas. They founded the town of Villa de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Victoria Nombre de Jesús (now known as Victoria) on the Guadalupe River.

Detailed explanation-4: -Stephen F. Austin was the most successful of all the empresarios in Texas. In addition to overseeing his father’s original contract, he received additional contracts in 1825, 1827, and 1828, distributing about 4 million acres to 1, 200 families.