USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

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: -De León oversaw the only empresario grant to attract large numbers of settlers from Mexico rather than the United States. As tensions rose between Anglo American colonists and the Mexican government, De León forged a neutral path-although he and his family supported local control in Texas affairs.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.