Moses Austin is commissioned an empresario by the Mexican government. He is authorized to bring immigrants from the U.S. and Europe to the Mexican territory of Tejas (Texas) to bolster the claim and possession of Texas through settlement.
Settlers are offered land in Tejas if they will become naturalized Mexican citizens, adopt the Catholic faith and learn Spanish. After an untimely death, Stephen F. Austin, (Moses Austin’s son) assumes the commission.
American and European immigrants stream into the Tejas territory between 1821 and 1829.