Edwards, Robertson, DeWitte, DeLeon, Power helped to settle Texas

There were other empresarios in Texas in the 1820 and early 1830s but none were as successful as Stephen F Austin. Austin brought 300 families to T...

August 15, 2022
7:14 PM

There were other empresarios in Texas in the 1820 and early 1830s but none were as successful as Stephen F Austin. Austin brought 300 families to Texas. It is not exactly clear how many families the other empresarios were able to bring to Texas. There were no official censuses taken in the colonial period, but the estimate of the number of people in Texas in 1830 was 6,500.  Since most empresario contracts authorized by Mexico were in the range of 50 to 400, there is a big discrepancy in numbers here.

C. Herndon Williams