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McLean, PAPERS CONCERNING ROBERTSON'S COLONY IN TEXAS, Volume XI
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themselves above the San Antonio Road [which would have been in
Robertson's Colony], the office would, in the course of a month or six
weeks, be moved for a time to Tenoxtitlan. (That was where Jack had
operated a similar office as agent of Austin & Williams between
February 8 and June 15, 1834.--See Robertson Colony Papers, VIII, 247-
254.)
A few days earlier (October 6, 1835) Steele had sent a formal
notice to Pierson to cease operations as the Principal Surveyor of
Robertson's Colony and make out, as speedily as possible, a return of
the business done under his administration. Nevertheless, Steele
himself continued to issue land titles until December 28, 1835, as we
shall see later.
Robertson in Tennessee
In Volume X, page 31, of these Paprs we have seen that by the
end of July, 1835, Empresario Robertson had already left Sarahville de
Viesca, headed for Nashville, Tennessee, to recruit more colonists. He
was hardly out of sight of Viesca before excitement began to build in
the colony concerning certain bottom lands which Robertson had reserved
for himself and for those persons living in the United States who had
come out to inspect the colony and then gone back to get their
families. There was also dissatisfaction concerning an eleven-league
claim which Robertson had allowed George Antonio Nixon to locate in the
colony in return for services rendered Robertson in Monclova as
interpreter during the time that Robertson was prosecuting his suit to
recover the colony (See Volume IX, pp. 385-393). However, Steele stood
firm and refused to issue any land titles covering those areas.
By August 10, 1835, Robertson had reached Natchez, Mississippi,
and there he learned that Monroe Edwards, who had received a grant for
only one league of land (4,428.2 acres) in Robertson's Colony on
February 10, 1835, had sold, in Natchez, 18,000 acres of land and was
on his way to Texas to get the titles to them. Robertson immediately
wrote his son, E. S. C., not to write any more deeds for Edwards, and
to warn Steele not to give him any titles until Edwards actually
brought his families into the Colony.
This Monroe Edwards had established a reputation in Texas as a
forger and slave smuggler par excellence, so naturally our curiosity
was aroused as to what method he might have used to convince
prospective purchasers that he had authority to sell lands in
Robertson's Colony. Here is a tenuous theory that offers a possible
solution. By reference to Volume I of these Papers, the reader will see
that the Edwards family and Robert Leftwich were from Russellville,
Kentucky. In 1822 Amos Edwards and Robert Leftwich went to Mexico City
to acquire what became known as the Texas Association or the Nashville
Colony. After Edwards and Leftwich returned to Tennessee, the Texas
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McLean, Malcolm Dallas, 1913-. Papers Concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas, Volume 11, July 26 through October 14, 1835, Nashville-on-the-Brazos, book, 1984; Arlington, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth91048/m1/49/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .