John P. Coles Papers 1824-1865

Baird, Charles

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Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836

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Stephen F. Austin, son of Moses Austin, initiated the Anglo-American colonization of Texas by assuming ownership of a land grant given to his father by the Spanish government in 1821. From the description of Austin, Stephen F., papers, 1819-1821. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 20430891 Stephen Fuller Austin was born on November 3, 1793 in Virginia to Maria and Moses Austin. He was educated in Connecticut and at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kent...

Coles, John P., 1793-1847

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Born in Rowan County, North Carolina, John P. Coles (1793-1847) married Mary Eleanor Owen, with whom he would have six children, in Georgia in 1821. The following year, the couple arrived at Stephen F. Austin's Texas Colony along the Brazoria River, where Coles received 8 ½ leagues of land near present-day Burleson, Washington, and Brazoria counties. His cedar log cabin became the center of a community known as Coles' Settlement where he maintained a public house. In 1828, Coles was...