History of Texas: From Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846, Volume 1 Page: 235
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devoted much of his time in Mexico in forwarding the general
colonization law. He had his colony greatly at heart, and had
expended thousands of dollars in getting up the enterprise.
The contract with the state was sufficiently liberal. It admit-
ted him as an empresario under the general state law. The
lands designated were bounded on the east by a line beginning
twenty leagues from the Sabine and ten leagues from the coast;
thence through Nacogdoches, and fifteen leagues beyond it ;
thence west to the Navasoto; thence down this river to the
San Antonio road, and with this road to the San Jacinto ;
thence down said river to within ten leagues of the coast; and
along the coast, ten leagues from it, to the place of beginning.
This boundary included the fine lands of the Trinity, Neches,
and Angelina;* and, with the exception of Austin's grant, it
was perhaps the most desirable location in Texas.
Hayden, Edwards, on receiving his grant, returned to the
United states, and requested his brother, Benjamin W. Ed-
wards, then at Jackson, Mississippi, to visit Texas, with a view
to aid him in building up his colony. The latter, complying,
proceeded immediately to the new state, and spent some months
with Colonel Austin, during which he conversed with him freely
on the subject of the great enterprise of peopling the country
with North Americans.t
Edwards labored under a disadvantage in regard to his col-
ony from which Austin was entirely free. The territory of the
former was in part occupied by Mexicans and the old settlers
on the " neutral ground," while that of, Austin was unsettled.
The Mexicans about Nacogdoches had but recently returned
there, having fled, with Long, from the vengeance of Colonel
Perez. They were, to some extent, hostile to the Americans,
and entirely unwilling that an American should be placed over
* See the contract, in Appendix No. 5. f Foote, vol. i., p. 225.a' f xk 4' , ri,
GRANT OF HAYDEN EDWARDS.
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Yoakum, H. (Henderson K.), 1810-1856. History of Texas: From Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846, Volume 1, book, 1855; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2385/m1/243/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.