The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 29, July 1925 - April, 1926 Page: 60
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County, and that she remembers quite distinctly when the English
colonists came to Texas from England. Hartley, Reggi, John and
Charley Pidcocke and their sister Isabella were the members of
the colony which she afterward knew most intimately-that she
was flower-girl at the wedding of Miss Pidcocke in a log cabin in
Cameron-that an Episcopal minister officiated at that marriage."
Mrs. Fauntleroy lived after her marriage at Belton and Gatesville,
where the Pidcockes were often visitors at her house. She is
probably the only living person who remembers the colonists, and
her memory is no longer accurate, although three years ago she
might have given much information about them, according to her
son-in-law.
That trip up from Galveston was a frightful wedding journey.
Just when the colonists landed in Galveston is not known, although
it was probably some time in October, since they sailed on Sep-
tember 2. By December they had gotten only as far as Cameron.
The Northern Standard, published at Clarksville, in its issue of
November 30, 1850, makes mention of the colonists' arrival. They
were copying from the Houston Telegraph, but as there was no real
telegraph news in those days and only slow mails in this part of
the country, the following paragraph must have been written some
time earlier :
A company of one hundred emigrants from England arrived here
a few days since on their way to Milam County, where they intend
to form a settlement. They will soon be followed by two or three
hundred more. Sir Edward Belcher, the principle agent of these
colonists precedes them and will make all necessary arrangements
for their comfort. They appear to be a very respectable class of
emigrants, and are well provided with farming implements and
all the furniture and utensils that will be most needed in their
new abode. We understand that the company has purchased seven-
teen leagues of land in one of the most fertile and healthy sections
of middle Texas.
It was a rainy winter and bitterly cold. There were no roads
worth mentioning and no bridges. The colonists were disheartened
from the first. The descendants of Captain Mackenzie lay the bad
start to Sir Edward Belcher himself, or at least to the company
which he represented. It is said that the colonists were made to
pay for their land a second time when they reached Texas. The
new conditions to which the Englishmen were unaccustomed, the
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 29, July 1925 - April, 1926, periodical, 1926; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth117141/m1/68/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.