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1 Traveling in Texas By Clint Williams

2 I sent that Ancestry site some information on My Family Tree They sent me back a pack of seeds and suggested that I just start over

3 Mary Maverick quote December 7, We set off for Texas. With heavy hearts, we said goodbye to Mother, and my brothers and sister. Mother ran after us for one more embrace. She held me in her arms and wept aloud, and said: "Oh, Mary, I will never see you again on Earth." I felt heartbroken and often recalled that thrilling cry; and I have never beheld my dear Mother again.

4 Before the Spanish Came Tree on Goose Island, Texas

5 Just another door?

6 GTT

7 El Camino Real Ox Carts

8 1865 Brownsville paddle wheelers

9 Freight hauler

10 Inside of a wagon while traveling

11 Indians follow the game

12 Indians Followed animal paths Follow the food buffalo, deer, birds Prairie Indians planters There were many tribes and they fought and killed each other The Comanche, Kiowas and Apache were the dominate prefatory groups

13 Indian tribes in San Antonio In San Antonio Apion, Chuinjan, Chaguantapam, Censoc, Caguas, Cocomeioje, Charro, Emet, Juamaca, Juncatas. Mesquite, Merhuan, Mecocoma, Pacha, Payaya, Peans, Pachaug, Patagua, Papanac, Pazac, Pamaya, Paxcaz, Paton, Pacuache, Pojosay, Quepana, Quinso, Secmoco, Siaguan, Sijame, Timamar, Tuu, Tacame, Tena, Tetzino, Ujuiap, Zaepo, Zerquan, Zana (MS baptismal records of The Mission of San Antonio de Valero)

14 ,000 Indians in Texas 1,000 settlers

15 Texas rivers

16 Spanish and Mexican Emigration The Spanish did not consider emigration until the French landed on the Texas coast in 1690 The Spanish brought in the Canary Islanders to San Antonio in 1730 The Spanish patrolled El Camino Real and imprisoned squatter Spanish land grants were always the property of the Spanish crown and could not be sold

17 1794

18 1817

19 Spanish Missions and forts

20 Spanish Events Spent more time in South America than Texas Missions were started with local groups - Indians La Salle s voyage loss of one ship, Labelle ran aground, one taken to build a fort, the search for Fort St Louis, south no results north and mutiny, survivor caught by Indians, La Salle s death, only one person makes it to Ft St Louis Spanish focus on Texas - San Antonio Road, Missions in Goliad, La Bahia, Refugio, Nacogdoches Non emigration policy only Spanish Strings attached to Spanish grants no sale Canary Islanders in San Antonio

21 1816 Pirate Jean Lafitte town - Galveston Had 1000 people before he left 1826 Harrisburg established port for ships to deliver lumber from a local saw mill freight for San Felipe was delivered from Harrisburg overland to San Felipe Sloops sailed up the Brazos river to begin Stephan F Austin s colony

22 Emigrants guide to Texas

23 Colonist Map

24 Trammel Trace

25 Early Texas

26 River paddle wheelers used up Texas rivers

27 Empressario System Allegiance to Mexico Must be Catholic Teach al citizens Spanish Catholic church and school Mechanics and blacksmiths were given land in town

28 Austin Colony 1820

29 Towns in Texas El Paso 1680 Corpus Christi 1682 Nacogdoches 1685, 1716 Goliad started 1749 Refugio started 1749 Galveston started 1785 port started 1816 La Bahia started 1812 Harrisburg started 1825 Fort Teran on Neches River in Nacogdoches 1831 Houston started 1836 Velasco (Freeport) Columbia Richmond 1836

30 Colonial Roads

31 Texas entry routes

32 Empressarios (started by Spain in 1819) Anglo colonists to settle Texas and Coahuila. In exchange for a small fee, settlers were given up to 4,428 acres of pasture land and 177 acres of farmland Stephen F Austin Green DeWitt Sterling Robertson DeLeon McGloin Powers Hewetson Fisher Miller

33 Spanish Expansion

34 1827 Total population 10,000 Indians, negros, and settlers, including squatters 1828 SFA sent to jail Mexican revolution June 1828 Santa Anna took 4 ships to free Austin from Velasco Mexicans were around seaports pretending to collect taxes

35 Putman (Williams) Family route Laurens county, SC to Gonzales county, Texas

36 Texas after statehood More towns More ports More roads More traffic More and closer trading posts

37 1850 Austin house

38 References All at archive.org Scraps of Early History by Margaret Helms Early Pioneer Days by J Taylor Allen The Evolution of a State by Noah Smithwick The Old Three Hundred by Lester Bugbee A Description of Texas by Oran Roberts The Emigrant Farmer of Texas by a Practical Farmer The Border Wars by James DeShields The Texas General Land Office Guide to Texas Emigrants by Anderson

39 1850 and on Migration trails and paths - n_trails_and_roads Emigration to Texas ation_and_immigration Emigrant s maps to Texas /m1/1/ US Emigration timeline migration-to-and-within-the-united-states-in-the- 1800s/

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