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commandant of the Mexican forces at Anahuac, acting under or-
ders from General Manuel de Mier y Ter.n, prohibited the set-
tlers from settling on lands designated by the Union agents. By
threats of imprisonment and military coercion he compelled them
to desist.9 The immigrants, in turn, forced the Union agents to
rent for their use a tract of land five miles from Anahuac belong-
ing to Taylor White.1o Prentiss later claimed that the Union Com-
pany had introduced o20 families, most of them European Roman
Catholics.'1
Although the Union company had refused to act with the Gal-
veston Bay and Texas Land Company, they did join in sending an
agent, apparently Asahel Langworthy,12 to Matamoros to confer
with General Mier y Ter n. From the Mexican government the
conciliatory letter to Samuel May Williams on March 31, 1831, in the Samuel May
Williams Papers (MSS., Rosenberg Library, Galveston). Bradburn, still in the
Mexican service and with the rank of general, died in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, in
June, 1842, while forces were massing on the Rio Grande for a proposed invasion
of Texas. Telegraph and Texas Register (Houston), June 22, 1842.
9A Visit to Texas (New York, 1834), 10o5-o106.
1Ibid., 117.
11Thos. E. Davis and others to Santa Anna, July 25, 1835, Unpublished Austin
Papers.
12Asahel Langworthy, son of Joseph Langworthy, received A.B. and A.M. de-
grees from the University of Vermont in 1805 and was admitted to the bar in
St. Albans two years later. He was twice married. After the War of 1812 he engaged
in land speculation. John P. Austin wrote a letter of introduction to Stephen F.
Austin in January, 1831, in which he informed the empresario that Langworthy
claimed loo,ooo acres in Zavala's colony that he had purchased on credit for five
cents an acre. On March 7, 1831, Langworthy was aboard the schooner Angelia
in Galveston Bay on his way to Matamoros, apparently to see General Mier y
Terdn, but a few weeks later he was back in Anahuac. He left that place for the
United States on May 16, 1831. In 1831 he wrote and in January, 1832, published
in New York a small book on Texas. Later in the year he is said to have brought
a colony of ioo persons to Nashville, Texas. In September, 1834, he was expected
in Nacogdoches, but in the following year was referred to as the "late Col.
Langworthy," so he must have died in late 1834 or 1835. The family genealogy
speaks of his having died in Nashville, Texas, about 1832 of Texas fever, along
with sixty of his colonists. Asahel Langworthy to Stephen F. Austin, January 5,
1831; John P. Austin to Austin, January 5, 1831; Amos Edwards to Austin, March
7, 1831; John P. Austin to Austin, January 27, 1832, in Barker (ed.), Austin Papers,
II, 574-576, 579, 607-608, 742; John P. Austin to Austin, January 8, 181, Unpub-
lished Austin Papers; Archibald Hotchkiss to John T. Mason, September 13, 1834, in
Kate Mason Rowland, "General John Thomson Mason, an Early Friend of Texas,"
Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, XI, 187; William Franklin
Langworthy, The Langworthy Family (Hamilton, N. Y., 194o); David Woodman,
Jr., Guide to Texas Emigrants (Boston, 1835), o102-o3; William Kennedy, Texas
(Fort Worth, 1925), 82-83; E. W. Winkler, "The Vandale Collection of Texana,"
Southwestern Historical Quarterly, LIV, 45.
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