>X-From_: [email protected] Thu Jun 10 16:30:09 1999 >Resent-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:21:52 -0700 (PDT) >X-Sender: [email protected] >Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:21:38 -0500 >Old-To: [email protected] >From: "Robert P. Gerstenberg" <[email protected]> >Subject: Vehlein >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by bl-14.rootsweb.com id NAA12368 >Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/3521 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > > >Hi Jan and others, here is Vehlein. If you want more go to The Handbook of >Texas Online. <http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/index.html> > >Find the search engine and enter : Vehlein. (Careful about the spelling). >You will find 35 articles mentioning Vehlein. This includes a large number >of Vehlein's settlers names. >Regards, RG >____________________________________________________ > >VEHLEIN, JOSEPH (?-?). Joseph Vehlein, a German merchant of Mexico City, >received three empresario contracts to bring settlers to Texas under the >Coahuila and Texas colonization law of March 24, 1825. With John Lucius >Woodburyqv he received a contract on November 14, 1826, to settle 200 >families, but although the contract date was extended to 1834, there is no >evidence of any families located under the grant. A second contract of >December 21, 1826, gave Vehlein permission to settle 300 families in the >area between the Old San Antonio Roadqv on the north, the coastal reserve >on the south, the San Jacinto River on the west, and the border reserve on >the east. The third contract, November 17, 1828, gave Vehlein the right to >settle 100 families in the area south of his 1826 grant. Finding that he >did not have sufficient capital to undertake colonization Vehlein combined >his grants with those of David G. Burnet and Lorenzo de Zavala.qv On >October 16, 1830, the three empresarios transferred their holdings to the >Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company.qv > >BIBLIOGRAPHY: Mary Virginia Henderson, "Minor Empresario Contracts for the >Colonization of Texas, 1825-1834," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 31, 32 >(April, July 1928). Mary Virginia Henderson, Minor Empresario Grants in >Texas, 1825-1834 (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1926). Kate Mason >Rowland, "General John Thompson Mason," Quarterly of the Texas State >Historical Association 11 (January 1908). > >  > >The Handbook of Texas Online is a joint project of The General Libraries at >the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association. > >© The Texas State Historical Association, 1997,1998,1999. >Last Updated: February 15, 1999 >Comments to: [email protected] > > > >