1. Major Empresario Grants
Location
Capital
Problems
Successes
Stephen F. Austin (Father of Texas)
Between the Colorado and Brazos Rivers
San Felipe de Austin
Drought
Tonkawa & Kawakawa
Lively shipwrecked
Disputes over boundaries
Mexican gov’t revoked right to settle
Convinced Mexican gov’t to let him settle
Father of TX – 1st colonize Americans
Settled nearly 300 families
Green DeWitt
West of Austin’s 1st Colony
Gonzales
Native American Raids
Settled 166 families
2nd in number to Austin
Martin De Leon
South of De
Witt along the Guadalupe-Near the coast
Victoria
Native American Raids
Forced to leave TX because of anti-Mexican sentiments
Did a lot to promote the cattle industry in Texas
Victoria important center for trade between Mexico and Texas
Power and Hewetson
South of De Leon along the Gulf Coast
Refugio
Irish
Native American Raids
Irish
Refugio was built on the site of an old Spanish Mission
McMullen and McGloin
Along the Gulf Coast
San Patricio
Irish
Irish