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Coahuila y Tejas-Index

Empresario Contracts in the Colonization of Texas 1825-1834

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The following is a modification from Readings in Texas History by Eugene Barker abstracted from articles in The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXXI, 295-324, XXXII by Mary Virginia Henderson.

It describes how and by whom the colonization laws of Coahuila and Texas were implemented. The contracts of Moses and Stephen Austin,Green DeWitt, De Le�n, the Irish Empresariosand Haden Edwards are covered in more detail elsewhere.

Mexico's preparation for the colonization of Texas---The establishment of an independent government in Mexico marked the beginning of a new era in the history of Texas, an era in which the suspicion and hostility of Spain toward all foreigners, and especially all citizens of