Austin Stephen Fuller Founder of Anglo-American Texas,son of Moses and Maria (Brown) Austin,was born at the lead mines in southwestern Virginia on November 3,1793.
Mexico Government,Mexico, also known as the United Mexican States, has 31 states and 1 federal district. Mexico is run by a federal republic under a centralized government. Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1810. The Constitution was written on February 5, 1917. The national holiday which resembles Americas 4th of July is there Independence Day on September 16. Mexico's Government consists of a Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branch.
The old 300 OLD THREE HUNDRED. The name Old Three Hundred is sometimes used to refer to the settlers who received land grants in Stephen F. Austin's first colony. In January 1821 Austin's father, Moses Austin, had received a permit from the Spanish to settle 300 families in Texas, but he died in Missouri a short time later before he could realize his plans. Stephen F. Austin took his father's place and traveled to San Antonio, where he met with the Spanish governor Antonio María Martínez, who acknowledged him as his father's successor. Austin quickly found willing colonists, and by the end of the summer of 1824 most of the Old Three Hundred were in Texas.
GONE TO TEXAS On November1, 1835, David Crockett, along with three others, William Patton, Abner Burgin, and Lindsey K. Tinkle, left Memphis, Tennessee, to embark on a journey of reflection, adventure, and fortune hunting. Having recently lost his U.S. House of Representatives seat to Adam Huntsman, a one-legged Jacksonian, Crockett told his constituents, “Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.” Most certainly, he told this tale over and over, all the way to Texas, always to the delight of his audience.