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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII. Settlement of Beales' and Grant's Concession on the Rio Grande in 1833-4?Departure of the Amos Wright schooner from New York and arrival in Aransas Bay?Unpropitious season? Mexican Coast Guard and Collector of Customs?Difficulty of Winter Travelling?Refugio and Goliad?Mexican Rancho? Bexar?Journey to the Rio Grande?Founding a Town?Departure of the Empresario?Fate of the Settlement?Superiority of Anglo-American Colonizatioo. In the history of a modern colony, every advance towards the formation of a new settlement has a claim to be recorded. Whether the attempt to colonise has been successful or unsuccessful, it seldom fails to supply useful instruction to future adventurers. Holding this opinion, and moreover desirous to exhibit the condition of a large and yet unsettled portion of the Republic of Texas, as it was under Mexican rule a few years ago, I pause in the narrative of general events, to relate the first operations of an association which made the earliest essay to establish a foreign colony in the district lying between the river Nueces and the Rio Grande. Doctor John Charles Beales, whose name has been previously mentioned in this work, concluded with the State of Coahuila and Texas a contract for colonising a tract between those rivers, comprising three millions of acres. To this concession was added another of five millions of acres, fartherto the north. Doctor Beales, now in the practice of the medical profession in the city of New York, is an Englishman, a native of Aldborough in Suffolk, and was married in the city of Mexico, in the year 1830, to Dona Maria Dolores Soto, a Mexican lady, the widow of Richard Exter, an English merchant, who, by virtue of an agreement with Stephen-Julian Wilson, a naturalised citizen of the Mexican Republic, becam...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217567077 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021756707X |
| Weight | 1.07 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.74 In |
| List Price | $25.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 330 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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