Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mexican” in chapter 6 of Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States.:
...Hence ensued a change in the policy of the Government, which had hitherto sought to keep Texas a desert.
In 1821 Moses Austin, a native of Connecticut and resident of Missouri, obtained from the Mexican Government a contract for the introduction of a colony of 300 families into Texas.
Each family was to receive an allotment of land, and the empresario, or contractor, was to receive a large premium...
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