KENTUCKY COLONIZATION IN TEXAS. A History of the Peters Colony The Peters Colony provided for the settlement--mostly by Kentuckians--of vast tracts of land in northeastern Texas during the years 1842 to 1848, primarily in the present-day counties of Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Grayson, and Tarrant. This publication gives a history of the Peters Colony as well as a list of the colonists themselves. Each of the 2,000 settlers is identified with the following information: name, marital status, occupation, age, year of migration to Texas, county of settlement, state of birth, and state from which he migrated. Was $20.00 Now $14.95 http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=1144&NLC-GenPointers1