Bacon Academy collection, 1803-1930.

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Bacon Academy collection, 1803-1930.

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Papers concerning Bacon Academy in Colchester, Connecticut, include photostats of two letters from Moses Austin, one to Daniel Phelps in 1803 arranging for him to put Stephen F. Austin in school and maintain him there, the second to Stephen in 1804 exhorting him in regard to his education and personal relations, as well as two 1930 letters from the clerk of the school and copies of two printed articles dealing with the history of the academy.

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Austin, Moses, 1761-1821

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Miner and promoter of Texas colonization. Austin settled in Upper Louisiana in 1798 and soon established his home and mining operation at Mine au Breton. From the description of Letters to John F. Merieult, 1802-1805. (New Orleans Public Library). WorldCat record id: 17632287 ...

Bacon Academy (Colchester, Conn.)

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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...