Re: A question

>alypius wrote:
>
>> Mostly rural and small town areas.  SE Texas is also very southern
>> culturally.  BTW, I think the early Anglo settlements in Texas probably
>> included more people from Tennessee than Missouri.
>
>Well, this is something of a problem.  I've been trying to find out exactly
>where the Old 300 (the first 300 Anglo families to emigrate to what was
>then Spanish territory) had come from.  Their leader, Moses Austin, is
>said to have last lived in Herculaneum, Missouri, before starting what he
>called the "Texas venture", but none of the references I've looked in say
>where the settlers themselves came from, only where he came from.  I've
>heard your version of events before,
Probably for good reason.

 but I think it makes more sense to
>assume that Austin did not trek all the way back to Tennessee to get
settlers,
>especially because I find no reference to any connections of his to that
area
>of the country (he was originally from Connecticut).
I don't know where the Old 300 came from, either, but it's not really
pertinent.  In the following 15 years, more than 30,000 Anglos settled in
Texas, and many of them, for whatever reasons (maybe they had more debtors,
drifters, and fugitives from the law?), came from Tennessee.  When people
would abandon their old residences, they would put up signs that read "GTT"
for "Gone to Texas," or so I learned in my 7th grade Texas history class.
~alypius