STEPHEN F AUSTIN

He followed his dad's steps to colonize Texas when his father died after asking for land to give people and build cities.He was only allowed to bring three hundred families. He was named the father of Texas for what he did and he also gained independence from Mexico in San Jacinto in 1836.

GREEN DEWITT

He was 18 when he moved to Missouri,he then returned to Kentucky and went to collage for two years.when he returned to Missouri he married Sara Seely.he fought in the war of 1812 and was named sheriff of falls county Missouri. He asked for permission to establish colonies in Mexico but he was denied.

PHILIP NOLAN

PHILIP NOLAN

• was a horse-trader and freebooter in Natchez, on the Mississippi River, and the Spanish province of Tejas (aka Texas).
• Philip Nolan was born to Peter Nolan and Elizabeth Cassidy Nolan in Belfast, Ireland, in 1771.
• 1771 Belfast, Ireland Died March 21, 1801 Hill County, Spanish Texas, Viceroyalty of New Spain Occupation Horsetrader, freebooter Spouse(s) Gertrudis Quiñones Frances Lintot Children Maria Josefa Philip, Jr. Parent(s) Peter Nolan Elizabeth (Cassidy) Nolan
• In 1791, using the influence of Wilkinson, he obtained a trading passport from the Spanish governor of Louisiana and West Florida, Esteban Rodríguez Miró. He left Wilkinson's employ and set out to trade with the Indian tribes across the Mississippi. The passport was void in Texas, and his goods were confiscated by Spanish authorities. Nonetheless, and after living with the Indians for two years, Nolan returned to New Orleans with fifty horses.

JAMES LONG

JAMES LONG

• James Long (born February 9, 1793 Culpeper County, Virginia died 8 April 1822 in a Mexico military prison) led the unsuccessful filibuster Long Expedition to Texas.
• Many Americans and French settlers the American southwest were opposed to the Adams-Onis treaty of 1819 that settled the border dispute between the United States and Spain. Long teamed up with José Félix Trespalacios a former Mexican who had fought against Spanish rule in Mexico.[3] They made their first filibuster expedition to Texas in 1819. And he also attempted to recruit Jean Lafitte and his men, but Lafitte turned him down.Several of Long's recruits were former French soldiers, who had started a settlement in Texas the Champ d'Asile,[5] that Spanish troops crushed in 1818.Long was successful in capturing Nacogdoches, with his followers proclaiming Long the first President of the Republic of Texas,which lasted only one month, and is not affiliated with the Republic of Texas that was the result of the Texas Revolution. However a Spanish expedition routed Long and his followers.

MOSES AUSTIN

MOSES AUSTIN

• Moses Austin (October 4, 1761 – June 10, 1821) played a large part in the development of the American lead industry and was the father of Stephen F. Austin, a leading American settler of Texas. After receiving a land grant from the Spanish government in 1820, Moses Austin planned to be the first to establish an English American settlement in Spanish Texas, but died before his dream was realized. His son, Stephen F. Austin, led the colony to a now sovereign Mexico, and in time, the settlers would demand autonomy and win independence from the Mexican ruler Antonio López de Santa Anna thereby establishing the Republic of Texas.