Moses Austin meets with Spanish authorities in San Antonio to request permission for 300 Anglo-American families to settle in Texas, hoping to recover from bankruptcy through a bold colonization scheme. Austin, a native of Durham, Connecticut, had previously worked as a successful merchant in Philadelphia and Virginia.
In 1820, Moses Austin, a bankrupt fifty-nine-year-old Missourian, requested permission from Spanish authorities to promote and sell a large tract of Texas land to Anglo-American pioneers. The Spanish government granted him permission to settle in Texas the following year.
Stephen F. Austin, dubbed the "Father of Texas," brought 300 families from the United States to Texas, allowing for the first successful Anglo-American colonisation of the land that would one day become the state it is today.
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