Empresario Time line

  • Settlers arrived in SFA's colony

    Settlers arrived in SFA's new colony.
  • SFA set out to Mexico city

  • Passed Imperial colonization law & SFA headed back to Texas

  • Old 300

  • Victoria

    Victoria
    Three hundred-mainly Mexican-people settled here. This is the colony's main settlement, overlapping with those of Dewitt's colony. Numerous ckashes occured between the men, officials usually deciding in De Leon's favor.
  • San Felipe

    San Felipe
    In the 1830's San Felipe developed into the largest business center in Texas, after San Antonio of course. San Felipe's main street in Atascosito road and it is lined with many shops and various banks.
  • Bastrop

    Bastrop
    New colony's main town. Near Comanche hunting ground and suffered numerous attacks, this colony grew very slowly.
  • Gonzales

    Gonzales
    Located along the Guadalupe river, colony's main town. The location of this settlement made it exposed to many American Idian attacks. This is a very poor colony.
  • Refugio

    Refugio
    Located on the site of an old mission. Both Irish and Mexican settlers came to the colony which had 200 land grants already by the time of 1835.
  • San Patricio

    San Patricio
    Spanish for "Saint Patrick of Ireland". Growth of this colony slowed because a cholera epidemic swept through. Only 84 land titles by 1835 were issued.