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TEXAS.
[BOOK I
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 seasoiMexican
Coast Guard and Collector of Customs-Difficulty of
Winter Travelling-Refugio and Goliad--Mexican' RanchoBexar-Journey
to the Rio Grande-Founding a Town-Departure
of the Empresario-Fate of the Settlement-Superiority
of Anglo-American Colonization,.
IN the history of a modern colony, every advance
towards the formation of a new settlement lias 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, fartlier
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Kennedy, William. Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. Volume 2, book, 1841; London, England. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2392/m1/36/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.