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He arrived at the young town of Harrisburg (modern east Houston) and soon after married into the Thomas family which had come to Texas as part of Stephen F. Austin's original colony.
The General Colonization Law, part of the 1824 Constitution of Mexico for claiming land in Mexican Texas for Mexico