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The San Saba Colonization Company
the San Saba Company. In fact, Fisher speaks of it as the San
Saba Colonization Company. Both accounts, the second a news-
paper story based on the first, point out that an expedition would
be made into the San Saba country in the fall of 1843. The equip-
ment of the San Saba Company in 1839 was such that what was
still left could be used by Fisher and Miller in making the neces-
sary preparations for placing settlers on their grant. It was
highly desirable for them to find out everything possible about
their grant, such as the fertility of the soil, the supply of wood
.and water, and the number and disposition of the Indians.
But the idea of German colonization had also become associated
with the San Saba Company by May of 1843. Indeed, the news-
paper account spoke of the "Colonization grant of the German
Association," although there was nothing as yet to warrant that
statement. It is true that a Society or Association of German
Noblemen had been formed at I3iherich on the Rhlw o e ly as
April 20, 1842, for the purpose of purchasing lands in the Republic
of Texas." This Association of German Noblemen, or Adels-
verein, as it was called in Germany, decided at the time of organi-
zation to send Prince Victor of Leiningen and Count Joseph of
Boos-Waldeck, two of its members, to Texas. Prince Leiningen
returned to Germany in 1843 and advocated colonization in Texas
on a large scale. Count Boos-Waldeck, who returned to Germany
in January, 1844, after he had bought the W. H. Jack League in
Fayette County for seventy-five cents an acre, opposed coloniza-
tion on a large scale as being too expensive for the association of
German Noblemen (Adelsverein). The two Houston newspapers
simply assumed a "colonization grant of the German Association"
out of two facts, namely, first, that Fisher and Miller had a colo-
nization contract from the Republic of Texas and, second, that the
Association of German Noblemen had two representatives, Prince
Leiningen and Count Boos-Waldeck, in Texas at that time. It
is very likely that Henry Francis Fisher interested Prince Leinin-
gen in the Fisher and Miller grant. At any rate, Fisher wanted
to get some of his settlers from Germany, and Leiningen advo-
cated German colonization in Texas on a large scale, which would
17Penniger, Robert, Fest-Ausgabe oum 50-jaehrigen Jubilaeum der
Gruendung der Stadt Friedrichsbury, p. 23; Tiling, Moritz, History of
the German Element in Tewas from 1820-1850, pp. 59-60.177
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