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Welcome to the Pioneer of Texas Project.
Please add profiles that were born or migrated to Texas between the years of 1599 and 1899. The importance of this project is to trace the early settlers of Texas and to be sure everyone is recognized and highlighted by a side project.
A few early pioneers are highlighted, but they need assistance adding more profiles of our ancestors who were here as well. Handbook of Texas, the largest digital online encyclopedia in the county. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook
Republic of Texas República de Tejas (Spanish) Main article: Spanish Texas During the late Spanish colonial era, Texas had been one of the Provincias Internas, and the region is known in the historiography as Spanish Texas. Though claimed by Spain, it was not formally colonized by the empire until competing for French interests at Fort St. Louis encouraged Spain to establish permanent settlements in the area.[5] The region was occupied and claimed by the existing indigenous groups. Sporadic missionary incursions occurred in the area during the period from the 1690s–1710s, before the establishment of San Antonio as a permanent civilian settlement.[6] Owing to the area's relatively dense Native American populations, its remoteness from the population centers of New Spain, and the lack of any obvious valuable resources such as silver, Texas had only a small European population, although Spain maintained a small military presence to protect Christian missionaries working among Native American tribes and to act as a buffer against the French in Louisiana and British North America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Texas
Republic of Texas República de Tejas (Spanish)
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Map of the Republic of Texas. The disputed area is in light green, while the Republic is in dark green. Capital • San Antonio de Bexar (Mexican Texas) • San Felipe de Austin (1835, provisional) • Washington-on-the-Brazos (1836, interim) • Harrisburg (1836, interim) • Galveston (1836, interim) • Velasco (1836, interim) • Columbia (1836–1837) • Houston (1837–1839) • Austin (1839–1846)
Common languages English and Spanish French and German Native languages (Caddo, Comanche) and Portuguese regional
A unitary presidential constitutional republic
President1
• 1836 David G. Burnet
• 1836–38 Sam Houston, 1st term
• 1838–41 Mirabeau B. Lamar
• 1841–44 Sam Houston, 2nd term
• 1844–46 Anson Jones
Vice President1
• 1836 Lorenzo de Zavala
• 1836–38 Mirabeau B. Lamar
• 1838–41 David G. Burnet
• 1841–44 Edward Burleson
• 1844–45 Kenneth L. Anderson
Legislature Congress
• Upper house Senate • Lower house House of Representatives Historical era Western Expansion
• Independence from Mexico March 2, 1836
Annexation by the United States December 29, 1845 • Transfer of power February 19, 1846
Area
1840 1,007,935 km2 (389,166 sq mi) Population
• 1840 70,000 Currency Texan dollar
The Burnet Flag used from December 1836 to January 1839 as the national flag until it was replaced by the Lone Star Flag, and as the war flag from January 25, 1839, to December 29, 1845[2]
Naval ensign of the Texas Navy from 1836–1839 until it was replaced by the Lone Star Flag[2]
State Flower
Texas Bluebonnet - State Flower since 1901 • [https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2014-04-15/15-amazing-things-yo...] Don't copy images without paying a license fee to Shutterstock for each image.
Links
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[PDF]Epidemics, Infectious Diseases and Quarantines, 1844-1922
Bryan College Station, Texas [http://www.texasresearchramblers.org/newspapers/scrapbookitems/1844...]
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