Stephen Austin, who visits Mexico City in…
August 1823 CE
Stephen Austin, who visits Mexico City in 1823 to confirm his late father’s land grant, agrees to settle three hundred American families in Texas in order for the Mexican authorities to grant him agents' status.
Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop, the Mexican government administrator in charge of Anglo-American immigration into Mexico's state of Coahuila y Tejas, allows Stephen F. Austin to put together an eleven-man police force that will later be expanded to become the Texas Ranger Division.