Empresarios of Texas
Empresarios What they did
Stephen F Austin
- Brought the first anglo-american families to Texas
- The families were called the Old 300
- He was the most successful empresario
Green DeWitt
- Brought families to Gonzales
- Brought 400 families to Texas
- Issued 160 titles of land
Martin De Leon
- He brought families to Victoria, Texas
- He brought Mexicans into Texas
- He settled between 100-200 families along Guadalupe river
Benjamin W Edwards
- Offered Cherokee Indians the area between the Red River and the Rio Grande west of the Old San Antonio road
- Led around 30 men into Nacogdoches and proclaimed the republic of Fredonia
The old 300 is when Stephen F Austin traveled to Mexico to ask the president if he could bring 300 families to Texas. Stephen was an empresario which meant he was a land agent who brought people to new land where they could live.
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