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, 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).

Are you sure that you're not just thinking of Sam Houston, who not only
came from Tennessee, but had been its governor and lived there with the
Cherokees for a while?

I have to wonder if this theory is more myth than reality, but to be honest,
I can't really say for sure now.  I did think they had come from Missouri,
but I can't find any references to their specific origin.  They were certainly
slaveholders, at any rate.

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