Stirpes, Volume 1, Number 2, June 1961 Page: 54
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STIRPES
EMPRESARIO HENRY CASTRO AND SOME OF HIS COLONISTS
By
Marion Day MullinsThe following is the first ground of Germans, Alsatians
and French neonle who came to the RePublic of Texas as emigrants
with emnresario Henry Castro. The shin's list is
in the Texas State Archives and gives the names of all individuals,
though only the heads of families are given here.
Later lists of nassengers bound for Castro's Colony are also
in the State Archives.
Etat dew Colons envoyes au Texas Par le Navire L'Ebro,
Cattaine E. Perry, partidu Havre, e 2 Novbre, 1842, a la
destination de GalvestonName of family, followed by ni
Jacques de Varenne, 4
Louis Camille de Varenne, 1
Pierre Sebastien Bellemere, 2
Nicolas Alpin Martin, 3
Catherine V. Sander, 3
Jean Mathieu Sander, 1
Louis Wilke, 2
Nicolas Conrad, 6
Jean Conrad, 1
Alexandre Bagage, 4
Josenh Cognon, 5
Pierre Marie Cognon, 1
Jean Nicolas Pichot, 3
Jean Nicolas Pichot, Jr., 1
Jean Nicolas Forgeaux, 1
Joseph Willemin, 3
Mathieu Willemin, 4
Etienne Willemin, 1
Auguste Willemin, 1
Pierre Prieur, 6
Jean Baptiste Le Comte, 4imber in family:
JeanYBatiste Lambert, 6
Ve. Burelle, 1
Jean Charles Poncelet, 5
Jean Batiste Halbardier, 6
Claude Laurent, 2
Felix Menetrier, 1
Auguste Arbey, 1
Fr. Clovis Chanoy, 1
Seranhin Pinchaux, 1
Marie Josenhine Archambay
Guinard, 3
Joseph Chamoagne, 2
Jean Tronson, 4
Theodore August Bonamy, 3
Nicolas Drouet, 6
Ange Seranhin Lecomte, 6
Claude Theonhile Marbruguin, 1
Jean Felix Guerlot, 3
Jean Marie Reseg, 2
Albert Laude, 1
Francis Phene, 1
Jean Rousseau, 1These 'one hundred fourteen settlers, men, women and
children ranging in age from three months to sixty years,
after crossing from Havre to Galveston, then braved the overland
journey to a frontier area west of San Antonio. There
were ox-carts to transport their baggage but all who could
walked the more than two hundred miles to their new home.
By the time this first shin load was joined by others54
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