USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -He was finally successful after Mexico became independent from Spain in 1821. De León received a land grant in 1824 to start a colony of 41 Mexican families in Texas, on the lower Guadalupe River.

Detailed explanation-4: -On April 8, 1824, De León petitioned the provincial delegation at San Fernando de Béxar to settle forty-one Mexican families on the lower Guadalupe and founded the town of Nuestra Señora Guadalupe de Jesús Victoria.

Detailed explanation-5: -It was the only colony in Texas settled predominately by Mexicans, as opposed to colonists who immigrated from outside Mexico. De León was to receive five leagues (22, 140-acres) upon the settlement of the forty-one families. De León located his ranch along Garcitas Creek.