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SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS
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People & Demographics | Hispanic Tejano Patriots
Native Latin American Contribution
to the Colonization and Independence of Texas
The Slavery Question | Ban on Anglo Immigration & Separation | Participation in Resistance
by Eugene C.
Barker
(Text of a lecture delivered at Harlingen, Texas, June 1935 to The League of United Latin American Citizens, subsequently printed in vol.
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XLVI, no. 4, April 1943)
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We have a story, probably true, that Governor Martinez refused at first to receive Moses Austin's application for permission to settle a colony in Texas and only reconsidered upon the intercession of Baron de Bastrop, whom Austin had known years before in Louisiana.
There is abundant evidence, however, that in refusing to encourage Austin, Martinez acted in deference to instructions from supe