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RIO GRANDE COMPANY.
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to the north. Doctor Beales, now in the practice
of the medical profession in the city of New York,
is an Englishman, a native of Aldborough in Suffolk,
and was married in the city of Mexico, in the
year 1830, to Donfa Maria Dolores Soto, a Mexican
lady, the widow of Richard Exter, an English
merchant, who, by virtue of an agreement with
Stephen Julian Wilson, a naturalised citizen of the
Mexican Republic, became a partner in certain
Empresario contracts. Having in partnership with
James Grant, a naturalised Mexican citizen, obtained
Empresario rights for the settlement of 800
European families, Doctor Beales, still retaining his
character of Empresario, with the approval of Mr.
Grant, associated himself with a New York Company,
formed of persons of respectability, who provided
the requisite funds for procuring emigrants
from Ireland, France, and Germany, and conveying
them to the settlement. According to a manuscript
journal transmitted by Dr. Beales to the Directors
of the Rio Grande and Texas Land Company, with
which I was favoured by the Company's secretary
and legal adviser, Mr. Charles Edwards of New
York, the first body of colonists-fifty-nine in number-embarked
at New York for Aransas Bay, in
Texas, in the schooner Amos Wright, on the 10th
of November, 1833. To each emigrant the Empresario
was to concede one labor of land and a house
lot free of charge.
The vessel sailed on the 11th of November, a
very injudicious period, as it exposed the emigrants
to the discouragement and inconvenience of arriving
in Texas at the most unfavourable season of the
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Kennedy, William. Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. Volume 2, book, 1841; London, England. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2392/m1/37/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.