• The DeWitt Colony (c. 1820s through the 1840s) was a settlement in Mexico (now Texas) founded by Green DeWitt. From lands belonging to that colony, the...
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    United States to what is now South-central Texas and founded the DeWitt Colony. Green Dewitt was elected as the first Ralls County, Missouri Sheriff in 1821...
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    Cuero. The county was founded in 1846 and is named for Green DeWitt, who founded an early colony in Texas. Archeological digs indicate early habitation from...
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    Belmont area was originally settled by Eliza DeWitt after January 1830, when she eventually received a DeWitt Colony land grant in April 1831; she had moved...
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    maintained as a base camp by the Rangers since the early founding of the Dewitt Colony. Seguin was the home of Dr. John E. Park, who experimented in construction...
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    Green DeWitt received permission to settle 400 families in Texas near the confluence of the San Marcos and Guadalupe Rivers. The DeWitt Colony quickly...
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    Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas. Archived from the original on 26 August 2009. Retrieved 2 November 2009. De Iturbide, Agustín (1821). "Plan de Iguala"....
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    Continental Congress. DeWitt was born in Kingston, New York, the eldest son of Johannes DeWitt and Mary (née Brodhead) DeWitt. Among his siblings was...
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    Texas under Spanish law. But Moses Austin died before he could begin his colony, and Mexico achieved its independence from Spain in September 1821. At this...
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    Republic of the Rio Grande: A Story of Its Rise and Fall," Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas. Valerio-Jiménez, Omar S. River of Hope: Forging Identity and...
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  • In 1825 at the age of 22, he moved to Texas as a member of the Green DeWitt Colony. There he met Prudence Nash, who was widowed from her first husband...
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    Retrieved June 23, 2015. "Flags of Texas Independence Movements". Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas. October 14, 2016. Archived from the original on October 14, 2016...
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    The Handbook of Texas online. Retrieved 17 Jun 2017. "DeWitt Colony Life". Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas. Archived from the original on 5 December 2010....
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    Journal of James Wilson Nichols 1820–1887". Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas. Retrieved November 13, 2010. de la Teja, Jesús F. "Seguin, Juan Nepomuceno". Handbook...
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    out between De León and Dewitt, with an October 26, 1826 incident that resulted in De León and his son-in-law Rafael Manchola arresting DeWitt. American...
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    Revolution McKeehan, Wallace L. "Gonzales Alamo Relief Defenders". Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas. Texas A&M University. Archived from the original on May 29, 2003...
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    In: Kiva, Vol 75, No. 2, Winter 2009, ISSN 0023-1940, pp. 165–78 "DeWitt Colony Life" Archived December 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Texas A&M University...
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    Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011. "DeWitt Colony Militia Captains". Tamu.edu. Archived from the original on January 10...
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    (1998), p. 30. "3rd Texian Consultation, San Felipe de Austin, 1 November 1835". Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas. Retrieved May 20, 2015. Act of Establishing...
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    River. It was established by Empresario Green DeWitt as the capital of his colony in August 1825. DeWitt named the community for Rafael Gonzáles, governor...
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    Americas. Caldwell, his wife, and his family arrived in Texas in the Green DeWitt Colony on February 20, 1831. On June 22, 1831, he received the title to a parcel...
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  • to work on the ranch. McKeehan, Wallace L. "Goliad Angel". Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas. TAMU. Coalson, George O. "Alavez, Francita". Handbook of Texas...
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    1 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine at mexconnect.com Index to the DeWitt Colony Region under New Spain Archived 3 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine...
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  • July 28, 2012. Domingo Terán de los Ríos from the Handbook of Texas Online "Domingo Terán de los Ríos," Sons of DeWitt Colony, Texas. Texas State Historical...
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    and were granted Mexican citizenship. 1825 Green DeWitt's petition for a land grant to establish a colony in Texas is approved by the Mexican government...
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  • ISBN 1-57806-685-9, ISBN 978-1-57806-685-8 Texas A&M University-Sons of Dewitt Colony Texas: Texas—Disputed Border and Buffer between New Spain and the United...
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    Online Fannin's Fight & The Massacre at La Bahia (Goliad) – The Sons of DeWitt Colony The Battle of Coleto and the Goliad Massacre – Texas State Library Battle...
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    "The Battle of San Jacinto (and the San Jacinto Campaign)". Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas (McKeehan, W.L., 1997-2006. Archived from the original on 2007-05-02...
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    approximately 300 men, drawn primarily from Austin's colonies and the DeWitt Colony. About half of the men had entered Texas in the 1820s; the others were...
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    Manuel de Mier y Terán from the Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved 3 February 2010. McKeehan, Wallace. Manuel de Mier y Terán 1789-1832. Sons of DeWitt Colony...
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