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Notes On the Colonization of Texas
14; Pennsylvania, 14; Virginia, 13; New England, 20."3 A total
of 107 registered from the Atlantic -and 699 from the trans-
Appalachian states. But the place from which immediate emi-
gration started affords little indication of the real origin of the
colonists. In 1830 the population of the United States west of
the mountains was 3, 676,000, and we may say that three and a
quarter millions of these people had entered that territory since
1800;38 so that few adults who arrived in Texas prior to 1831
could have been born in the west. Apparently this was a prob-
lem which interested Austin for a few months, and before other
details crowded it from his mind he listed forty-seven applicants,
of whom thirty-six recorded previous residence in two states. Of
the thirty-six, twenty-seven had moved originally from the At-
lantic states (and fourteen of these from north of Maryland),
three from Europe, and six from Kentucky and Tennessee to
states farther west. Of the remaining eleven, one was from Ger-
many and ten were apparently natives of trans-Appalachia.39
While these figures are small, they are consistent with what we
know of the migrations of others,40 and there seems to be no reason
to doubt that they are a fair index to the previous movements
of emigrants to Texas.
It only remains to speak briefly in this paper of an aspect of
the slavery controversy in relation to the colonization of Texas.
The movement to Texas began in 1821, the year after the Mis-
souri Compromise fixed bounds to the further extension of slavery
in the Louisiana Purchase and served notice that the congres-
sional practice of balancing the admission of a slave state against
'This tabulation is approximately accurate, but on account of the
difficulty of interpreting parts of the original it may not be absolutely so.
"The census of 1800 gave 386,393 in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana,
and Mississippi, to which should be added the population of Louisiana in
1803.
"The source for this paragraph is "Register of Families Introduced by
Austin, Book A," General Land Office of Texas.
"0Note, for example, the Austins themselves: Connecticut, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas. Daniel Draper wrote to Stephen F.
Austin December 25, 1821, in behalf of "a number of citizens" of Lincoln
county, Missouri, who wanted information about Texas. "The families
who now trouble you," he said, "are from a southern climate S. C. and are
all farmers; and are determined for a warmer climate." Jared E. Groce
was born in Virginia in 1782 and reached Texas in 1822 after having lived
in South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. (TIIE QUARTERLY, XX, 358.)
Such illustrations could be indefinitely extended.117
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