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Martin De Leon Texas Empresario. By: Dominick, Daniela, and Hector Mrs. Gabehart’s 4 th Grade Bilingual Class. De Leon Family. Martin De Leon. De Leon was an empresario He brought Mexican families to settle in Texas He was born in a wealthy family His family moved from Spain to Mexico
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Martin De LeonTexas Empresario By: Dominick, Daniela, and Hector Mrs. Gabehart’s 4th Grade Bilingual Class
Martin De Leon • De Leon was an empresario • He brought Mexican families to settle in Texas • He was born in a wealthy family • His family moved from Spain to Mexico • De Leon went to Texas in 1805 for the first time. He decided that was where he wanted to live
Martin De Leon Martin De Leon was a man of firsts He was the first Mexican empresario to found a colony in Texas He brought several families to settle there
De Leon’s Colony He wanted to settle a Texas colony on the Guadalupe River. De Leon was known as Capitan Vacas Muchas And the beginnings of the Texas ranching industry.
Credits • Drawings by Hector and Dominick • Writer: Daniela • Help from google