• Sterling Clack Robertson (1785–1842) was an empresario from Tennessee, during Mexican Texas. He introduced 600 families into Robertson's Colony. Robertson...
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    Sterling Clack Robertson (1820–1879) was an early Euro-American settler in Robertson's Colony in Texas. His father was the colony's founder Sterling C...
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    following year. It is named for Sterling C. Robertson, an early settler who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. Robertson County is in east-central...
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  • aquatic plants. The controlling authority for the reservoir and the Sterling C. Robertson Dam is the Brazos River Authority. Lake Limestone has extensive...
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    Robertson's Colony was an empresario colonization effort during the Mexican Texas period. It is named after Sterling C. Robertson, but had previously...
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    April 6, 1830. He reached Robertson's Colony on January 9, 1836. The following February he and his uncle, Sterling C. Robertson, were elected to represent...
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  • candidates to run for office were the local empresario, Sterling C. Robertson, and his nephew, George C. Childress. For most of the region, however, candidates...
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    Green DeWitt, Haden Edwards, David G. Burnet, Lorenzo de Zavala and Sterling C. Robertson. Of these, only De León and Austin successfully established colonies...
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    settlers were to come from Ireland, the other half from Mexico. Sterling C. Robertson An area along the Brazos River about 100 miles wide and 200 miles...
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    Sydney O. Pennington Robert Potter James Power John S. Roberts Sterling C. Robertson José Francisco Ruiz Thomas Jefferson Rusk William. B. Scates George...
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    arrived in the area under empresario Sterling C. Robertson. The settlers had arrived illegally, as Robertson's contract had been invalidated by Guerrero's...
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  • in the fall of 1835, with Sterling C. Robertson as its founder. It was named in honor of Nashville, Tennessee, Robertson's birthplace. The town served...
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    through several legal challenges, and later became Robertson's Colony, named for Sterling C. Robertson. The grant encompassed all or parts of 30 present-day...
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    Little River became part of Robertson's Colony, made up of settlers from Nashville, Tennessee, led by Sterling C. Robertson; they were the families of...
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    well as from 1827–1829. He later took part in Robertson's Colony with his cousin Sterling C. Robertson, but they returned to Tennessee. He delivered a...
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    Austin and Green DeWitt, as well as some of the area granted to Sterling C. Robertson. An additional 15% of the volunteers were from the Department of...
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    negotiated a treaty with the United States government. Empresarios Sterling C. Robertson and Robert Leftwich received a grant from the Coahuila y Tejas legislature...
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    Pendleton J. J. Pickle William C. Powers Jr. Richard "Cactus" Pryor Irma Lerma Rangel Ann Richards Sterling C. Robertson Joel Walter Robison Darrell K...
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  • District Rio Vista Dam, unnamed reservoir, City of San Marcos, Texas Sterling C. Robertson Dam, Lake Limestone, Brazos River Authority S.W. Freese Dam, O.H...
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  • settlement was established in 1834 by Sterling C. Robertson and named for his mother Mrs. Sarah (née Maclin) Robertson and Agustín Viesca, the Mexican governor...
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  • Australian politician Sterling C. Robertson (1785–1842), Empresario under Mexican Texas, settled Robertson's Colony Steve Robertson (actor), of Scotland...
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    Marlin was the site of Sarahville de Viesca, established in 1834 by Sterling C. Robertson. The act of the state legislature creating Falls County that passed...
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    Refugio John S. Roberts, Delegate from Municipality of Nacogdoches Sterling C. Robertson, Delegate from Municipality of Milam José Francisco Ruiz, Delegate...
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  • Authority because of the land lost from the construction of the Sterling C. Robertson Dam (Robertson County) on Lake Limestone, Navasota River. Area 2 Kerr WMA...
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    Albert Clinton Horton – District of Matagorda, Victoria, and Jackson Sterling C. Robertson – District of Milam James S. Lester – District of Mina and Gonzales...
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    Andrew Henry Robertson MBE (born 11 March 1994) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Premier League club Liverpool and captains...
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    Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson OC (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) was a Canadian musician of Indigenous ancestry. He was lead guitarist for Bob Dylan...
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  • Valley Junction, Texas (category Unincorporated communities in Robertson County, Texas)
    community in Robertson County, Texas, United States. It is located near what was formerly Robertson's Colony, the colony founded by Sterling C. Robertson when...
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  • Archived 2010-06-05 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2010-05-25. Huden, John C. (1962). Indian Place Names of New England. New York: Museum of the American...
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    James Hopper lined Sterling up with a literary agent to sell his fiction. While Sterling visited Sag Harbor, Alexander Robertson published his newest...
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