FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Moses Austin
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Stephen F. Austin
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Green DeWitt
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Erasmo Seguin
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Detailed explanation-1: -(1787–1835). Green DeWitt was an empresario, or land agent, who developed a colony centered on the town of Gonzales, in what is now southern Texas. DeWitt’s colony is widely regarded as the second most successful Anglo-American colony in Texas, after the neighboring colony founded by Stephen F. Austin.
Detailed explanation-2: -Empresarios were contractors empowered by the government of Coahuila y Texas to recruit specific numbers of families to the territory. Mexican citizens were preferred as empresarios and as colonists, but the majority of the empresarios were from the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -The DeWitt Colony (ca. 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.