USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1820, he traveled to San Antonio to request a land grant from the Spanish governor, who initially turned him down. Austin persisted and was finally granted permission to settle 300 Anglo families on 200, 000 acres of Texas land.

Detailed explanation-2: -Joaquin Galan received a land grant from the Spanish king more than two centuries ago. His heirs say it was illegally seized in the 1870s. The state still owns about 40, 000 acres of the land northwest of Laredo.

Detailed explanation-3: -After receiving a land grant from the Spanish Crown in 1820, Moses Austin planned to be the first to establish an Anglo-American settlement in Spanish Texas, but he died before his dream was realized.

Detailed explanation-4: -The earliest grant was made by the Spanish crown to establish a mission and presidio in East Texas in 1716. In 1731 town lots in San Antonio de Béxar were granted to Canary Islanders, and by the mid-1700s larger livestock grants were being made along the San Antonio River valley.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.