BEALES’S RIO GRANDE COLONY.On November 11, 1833, the Amos Wright sailed from New York for Texas with fifty-nine men, women, and children aboard, the vanguard of a proposed colony backed by the Rio Grande and Texas Land Company and under command of John Charles Beales.From 1830 to 1832 Beales and other contractors had received several colonial grants totaling more than fifty million acres and …
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