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	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Austin clearly realized this fact and never allowed the settlers to forget the solid benefits that they received through the liberal colonization policy or their obligation to obey the laws and become loyal Mexican citizens.
		Austin had been away from Texas for several months at Saltillo attending a session of the legislature, of which he was a member.
		Though Austin was president of the convention, he doubted the expediency of the meeting, fearing that it would stimulate suspicion of the loyalty of the colonists—all the more because the old Mexican inhabitants of San Antonio had sent no delegates to the convention.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/AA/fau14.html (3424 words)

	Texas Treasures - Stephen F. Austin - Texas State Library
		Austin's father Moses was the leader in establishing lead mining and manufacturing in the United States.
		Austin was known as a voice of caution in dealing with the Mexican authorities, as opposed to other empresarios who took a defiant stance.
		Austin was elected to command a group of volunteers and lead them against the Mexican army at San Antonio, which he did until mid-November, when he was relieved by Edward Burleson to take up a new post as leader of a delegation to the United States.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /treasures/giants/austin/austin-01.html (1357 words)

	Moses Austin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moses Austin (October 4, 1761–June 10, 1821) is best known for his efforts in the American lead industry and as the father of Stephen F. Austin.
		Moses was born in Durham, Connecticut, moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1784 to enter the drygoods business with his brother Stephen.
		Moses Austin and his wife are entombed at the public cemetery in Potosi, Missouri.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moses_Austin (442 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Austin founded Austinville (Wythe County) at the lead mines in 1792 after he moved to the mines.
		The second period in the history of the American lead industry is known as the "Moses Austin Period." Austin's contributions influenced the lead industry until heavy machinery revolutionized mining and smelting after the Civil War.
		Austin and Bastrop had chanced to meet nineteen years earlier when in New Orleans on unrelated trips and had had no contact during the interim.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/AA/fau12.html (911 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - Stephen F. Austin
		Austin was born in southwestern Virginia, but his family moved to Missouri when he was five years old.
		Austin traveled to Mexico City to correct this situation, and using skillful diplomacy secured a new law confirming his right to colonize the land and designating him as the new colony's empresario or administrative authority.
		Austin found a loophole that allowed him to continue expanding his colony, but the law stirred resentment among his colonists, who began calling for a separate state government in Tejas, which was then under the jurisdiction of the neighboring state of Coahuila.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/a_c/austin.htm (748 words)

	Moses Austin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Depression of 1819 brought Moses to more waters that needed to be parted and it was at this time the road to Texas looked very inviting.
		It was this contract and his Spanish passport from 1797 that Austin kept with him when he travelled to Bexar (San Antonio) in 1820 to speak with the Spanish governor for a similar contract in Texas.
		A practical, organized man, Moses Austin, though born in Connecticut, moved his family to Missouri in 1798.
	www.btinternet.com /~dkw57/austin.html (905 words)

	Stephen F. Austin's Colony
		Austin, unable to await the result, left the baron de Bastrop to act as his agent in the affair, and set out on his return from Bexar in January, 1821.
		On reaching San Antonio, Austin was surprised to learn that, on account of the recent changes in Mexico, it would be necessary for him to proceed to the capital, to obtain from the Mexican Congress a confirmation of his contract, with instructions and details relative to the formation and government of his colony.
		Austin was anxious to fulfill his contract, and introduce the requisite number of families.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /texas/stephen-f-austin-colony.htm (5442 words)

	Moses Austin and the Mexican Government
		Moses Austin, a Missourian, called upon the Governor at San Antonio and presented his petition to locate a colony on Texas soil.
		Stephen F. Austin went to San Antonio in August 1821 and was cordially received by the authorities, who granted young Austin permission to explore the country adjacent to the Colorado River, and choose what lands he wished.
		Austin selected for his colony the region lying south of the San Antonio road, between the San Jacinto and Lavaca rivers.
	www.texasgenealogy.org /hopkins/moses_austin.htm (1662 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Stephen Austin was born in Virginia in 1793.
		Austin was asked by friends to run for the office of president.
		Austin was defeated in the election by Sam Houston.
	www.pack129.org /cubs/sfaustin.shtml (416 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Moses (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Moses, Grandma MOSES, GRANDMA [Moses, Grandma] (Anna Mary Robertson Moses), 1860-1961, American painter, b.
		Moses, Robert MOSES, ROBERT [Moses, Robert] 1888-1981, U.S. public official, b.
		Moses Lake MOSES LAKE [Moses Lake] city (1990 pop.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Moses (606 words)

	Austin, Moses - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The grant was confirmed in 1821, but Moses Austin died without realizing his settlement plans.
		Moses slowly working his way back for Cyclones.
		Mike Moses Elected to SWS Group, Inc. Board of Directors; Higher Ed Holdings Education Official Selected to Fill Vacancy.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-austin-m.html (253 words)

	SSC - TEKS and TAKS - TEKS Biographies - Grade 7
		Austin frequently discussed the future of his colony with Mexican officials and he earned their trust.
		Born in Connecticut, Moses Austin moved to the Missouri territory and established a lead mine and banks to supply and finance settlers in the west.
		Austin died before his dream could be realized but his son, Stephen F. Austin, followed through on his father's plan.
	www.tea.state.tx.us /ssc/teks_and_taas/teks/bio7.htm (2632 words)

	Moses Austin - aqw02.htm
		(Moses) was born 22 Jun 1795 in Austinville, Wythe, VA. She died 25 Apr 1851 in Peach Point, Brazoria, TX.
		Moses Austin BRYAN was born 25 Sep 1817 and died 16 Mar 1895.
		Eliza Margaret PERRY was born 3 Jan 1828 in Potosi, Washington, MO. She died Jan 1862 in Austin, Travis, Texas and was buried in Peach Point, Brazoria, TX.
	www.austin-bryan-perry.org /mosesaustin/aqwg02.htm (279 words)

	American Experience \| Remember the Alamo \| People & Events \| PBS
		Austin soon found that many who had suffered in the Panic of 1819 were eager to start over in Texas.
		Austin, knowing that those in favor of war were being led by hotheaded recent arrivals to Texas like William B. Travis and Sam Houston, gravely considered the oath he had taken to the Mexican government.
		Austin traveled East to persuade officials in Washington and financiers in New York and Philadelphia of a Texas victory.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/alamo/peopleevents/p_austin.html (807 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2003061921
		Austin characterized conditions in one hut where they took refuge as "abominably bad." Seventeen travelers crammed into a space a mere twelve feet square, forcing all to jostle and jab for elbow and knee room.
		Austin was more impressed by the recent history of the place, starting with the production just that last summer of four hundred thousand pounds of lead, and by the inefficiency of the miners' techniques, which meant that the deposits would be even more productive in the hands of someone who knew what he was doing.
		Austin was awarded less land than he had asked for--one league instead of sixteen--but, given that he had requested far more land than he needed, he was happy to accept Spain's terms.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random051/2003061921.html (2463 words)

	Stephen F. Austin Collection (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Stephen Fuller Austin was born on November 3, 1793 in Virginia to Maria and Moses Austin.
		Austin attempted to prevent his colony from being entangled in the constant political turmoil in Mexico during the 1820s and first years of the 1830s.
		Letters in the collection written by Stephen Austin are from the period during which his colony was established in Texas and the subsequent struggle for independence from Mexico.
	info.lib.uh.edu /sca/collections/faids/html/austin.html (705 words)

	MINE AU BRETON
		The influential Moses Austin donated 40 acres of land on the north side of Breton Creek for establishment of a county seat.
		Moses Austin is not only credited with being the founding father of Potosi but also "The Grandfather of Texas." In 1821 Moses Austin traveled to San Antonio where he received the first American grant for a colony in Texas.
		Elias was sent to Louisiana Territory by his uncle, Moses Austin, in December of 1797, with Judather Kendal, to take possession of the property granted to him for one league (about 4,250 acres) covering one third of the mines in the territory.
	www.carrollscorner.net /SitesWashCo_Potosi01.htm (1533 words)

	Stephen Austin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Stephen Austin, the son of Moses Austin, was born in Wythe County, Virginia, on 3rd November, 1793.
		In 1820 Moses Austin was granted permission by the Spanish authorities to establish a colony in the Mexican province of Texas.
		In June 1836 Austin was defeated for the presidency of the Republic of Texas by Samuel Houston.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WWaustin.htm (898 words)

	H-Net Review: Ricky Floyd Dobbs on Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas
		Stephen Austin was born of Northern parents in Virginia, raised in the "west" as it moved westward, educated in New England and Kentucky, and was a more or less loyal citizen of the United States, Mexico and Texas.
		Austin was very controversial in his own time, and much of what he did ought to remain the subject of debate.
		Austin even harped upon the danger of slave revolt and the possible loss of slave property to forward the Texas revolution and gain American support for it.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=22643947588720 (1455 words)

	Digital History
		In 1820, Moses Austin, a bankrupt fifty-nine-year-old Missourian, asked Spanish authorities for a large Texas land tract that he would promote and sell to Anglo-American pioneers.
		Moses Austin soon died, but his son Stephen carried on his dream of colonizing Texas.
		The title to your land is indisputable--the original grant for this settlement was made by the Spanish government before the Revolution...and the whole was approved and confirmed by the Sovereign Congress of the Mexican Nation....
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /mexican_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=39 (414 words)

	Austin Peay Duke, Sr., born about 1806
		Austin Peay Duke was born in South Carolina, probably Kershaw County, in 1806.
		This Austin Ford Peay, due to deaths and remarriages, later became the guardian of the four youngest siblings of Nancy Burge Duke.
		Austin’s Aunt Elizabeth, sister to his father, was married to Thomas Lloyd Foster and they had recently moved to Marion County, Alabama, in the northwestern portion of Alabama, near to the Mississippi State line.
	home.att.net /~ztlcox/duke/AustinDukeSr20mar06.html (1697 words)

	Stephen F. Austin in Texas history!
		Stephen F. Austin was born into a well-to-do family with a father that pushed the American frontiers as his forefathers had done since 1638.
		But Moses died before he could begin carrying out the contract and, as his final wish, asked his wife to convince Stephen to fulfill it.
		For the next 15 years, Stephen F. Austin used his knowledge and strength of character to develop Texas in spite of the continual political turmoil in Mexico, which had gained its independence from Spain in 1821.
	www.texasheroes.net /StephenFAustin.html (452 words)

	Stephen F. Austin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Austin was born in the lead mining regions of southwestern Virginia (Wythe County), some 250 miles southwest of Richmond, Virginia.
		On May 24, 1813, Austin was commissioned an ensign in the Missouri militia, and later in September he enlisted as a private in the First Regiment of Mounted Militia commanded by Colonel Alexander McNair.
		Austin died of pneumonia at 12 noon on December 27, 1836, at the home of George B. McKinstry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Austin (2327 words)

	San Jacinto Museum of History—Moses Austin Bryan Papers
		Moses Austin Bryan was the third son born to James and Emily Austin Bryan, the daughter of Moses Austin and sister of Stephen F. Austin, in Herculaneum, Missouri, on September 25, 1817.
		Moses Austin Bryan died in Brenham at the home of his son, Beauregard, on March 16, 1895, and was buried at Independence, Texas.
		The Moses Austin Bryan Papers were donated to the San Jacinto Museum of History Association by Mr.
	www.sanjacinto-museum.org /Herzstein_Library/Manuscripts/Finding_Aids/Bryan (793 words)

	No. 954: Moses Austin's Lead
		So, when Moses was 28, he and his brother saw opportunity in an abandoned lead mine in Virginia.
		It was time for a sick and aging Moses Austin to move on yet again.
		And Moses, his judgment not always as good as his vision, had to die without crossing over the Brazos River -- without finally entering this new land of promise.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi954.htm (549 words)

	AFAOA - Query Board
		My grandfather is Lucien Roy Austin, born Brooklyn New York on August 9,1896 or 1899 I am not sure of the year.
		She married Cheatom W. Cagle (first name may have been Cheaton), and had several children in the Lead Hill area, some whom are believed to have died of a plague at that time.
		Sarah was the daughter of Edmond Austin and Harriet Barber.
	www.afaoa.org /queries_old_01.html (1139 words)

	Twilight of New Spanish Texas
		Moses Austin declared he was a 55-year-old subject of the King of Spain as shown by his passport of 1797, a Catholic and that he carried no goods to be traded, only articles and supplies for his own use on the trip.
		Said Moses Austin being present was required through the Baron de Bastrop who had promised well and truly to discharge the duty of Interpreter, to make true answers to such questions as might be propounded to him, answered as follows.
		By the 10 of June, Moses Austin was stricken dead with pneumonia that many attribute to his return trip and feverish preparations for return to Texas.
	www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/Spain3.htm (4206 words)

	Stephen Fuller Austin
		Stephen Fuller Austin, born in Austinville, Va., Nov. 3, 1793, died.
		States at the time, Stephen F. Austin was very successful in recruiting families to move to Texas.
		On the death (1821) of his father, Moses Austin, he took over a grant to bring U.S. settlers into Spanish Texas.
	www.lnstar.com /mall/texasinfo/sfaustin.htm (174 words)

	Star of the Republic Museum Making Texas Home
		Stephen F. Austin’s father Moses Austin is the reason he become interested in colonizing Texas with Anglo-Americans.
		Spain had given Moses Austin permission to bring 300 families to Texas from the United States.
		Stephen F. Austin advertised for colonists in newspapers mainly in southern states because of the similar climates.
	www.starmuseum.org /makingtexashome.htm (767 words)

	History of the Moses Austin 300 Families that settled Texas in the 1820's. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In January 1821, Moses Austin (who is also known as the father of Texas) had received a permit from the Spanish to settle 300 families in Texas.
		During 1823-24, Stephen Austin and the land commissioner Baron de Bastrop issued 272 titles, but Bastrop was called away in August 1824, and the work remained unfinished until 1827, when the new commissioner, Gaspar Flores de Abrego, issued the remaining titles.
		Another indication of the financial stature of the grantees was the large number of slaveholders among them; by the fall of 1825, 69 of the families in Austin's colony owned slaves, and the 443 slaves in the colony accounted for nearly a quarter of the total population of 1,790.
	www.forttumbleweed.com /old300.html (3172 words)

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