Don Martin de Leon to the provincial delegation of San Fernando de Bexar for an Empresario Grant in Texas to settle forty-one Mexican families "of good moral character" and to found the town of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Jesús Victoria. The Mexican settlement was unusual, as most of the period grants were to colonizing Americans.
De Leon was supportive of the Texas revolution against Mexico, but disdainful of the American colonists in Texas. As a major person of Spanish heritage, his life became difficult after Texas independence, and he ended up taking his family and livestock to Louisiana.
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