FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Question
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Haden Edwards
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Moses Austin
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Stephen F. Austin
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Baron de Bastrop
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1821, Moses Austin received the first empresario contract from Spain for 300 families. However, he died in June of that year. His son, Stephen F. Austin, took over his father’s work and renegotiated that contract with the Mexican government, receiving their permission to settle those 300 families in 1823.
Detailed explanation-2: -Moses Austin, founder of the American lead industry and the first man to obtain permission to bring Anglo-American settlers into Spanish Texas, son of Elias and Eunice (Phelps) Austin, was born in Durham, Connecticut, on October 4, 1761. He was in the fifth generation of his line of Austins in America.
Detailed explanation-3: -Austin’s primary intention was to create a trading venture on the coast of Texas to allow the United States to trade with New Spain. On December 23, 1820, Austin arrived in San Antonio to begin negotiations with the Spanish government to establish a trading post.
Detailed explanation-4: -Land agents called empresarios made the arrangements for bringing settlers to a new colony. Empresario Stephen F. Austin needed to let prospective colonists know that coming to Mexican Texas was possible.