Historical Events
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| Event | Event Date▼ | Location▲▼ | Category▲▼ |
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| Deaf Smith dies at the home of Randal Jones and is buried in Richmond | Dec. 30, 1837 |
Randal Jones' house was likely west and south of the Brazos River somewhat north of Morton Cemetery; Deaf Smith was buried somewhere near the intersection of 6th and Houston in Richmond, the exact spot was lost |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| An act was passed creating Fort Bend County and fixing its boundaries; Wily Martin was appointed Chief Justice (County Judge) | Dec. 29, 1837 |
Texas |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| Handy and Lusk places the first advertisement for their new town of Richmond in the Telegraph and Register newspaper at Houston | Aug. 1, 1837 |
Texas |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| During the second session of the Congress of the Republic, a bill passed incorporating several cities and towns including Nacogdoches, Houston and Richmond. (For unknown reasons, a second act of incorporation for Richmond was passed on November 18.) | June 5, 1837 |
Texas |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| A petition is signed requesting that the Congress of the Republic create a new county called Fort Bend | May 15, 1837 |
Texas |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| Robert Eden Handy and William Lusk begin to promote the new town of Richmond at Fort Bend; Thomas Borden and his brothers Gail, Jr., Paschal and John (but especially Thomas) also invested in the town acquiring 1700 acres in the Edwards Survey which inclu des portions of northern and western Richmond and subdividing them into 10 acre outlots to Richmond and advertised their sale | April 11, 1837 |
Texas |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| Stephen F. Austin dies at Columbia; he is initially buried at Peach Point, the home of his sister and brother-in-law Emily and James Perry. In 1910, his remains were removed to the state cemetery in Austin. | Dec. 27, 1836 |
Texas |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| Texas Congress passed an act making the southwestern boundary of Texas the Rio Grande river to it source and then north to the 42nd parallel | Dec. 19, 1836 |
Texas |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| Burnet and De Zavala resign so that Houston and Lamar can assume office | Oct. 22, 1836 |
Texas |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| The new Congress is convened | Oct. 3, 1836 |
Texas |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| Election held in Republic of Texas which chose Sam Houston to be president and Mirabeau B. Lamar vice president. Voters also elected the first congress of the Republic, unanimously approved the constitution written in March, and overwhelmingly supported annexation to the United States | Sept. 5, 1836 |
Texas |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| Treaty of Velasco agreed to between David G. Burnet, President of the Republic of Texas and Antonio López de Santa Anna, President of Mexico and General-in-Chief of the Mexican army; the treaty ended the hostilities, agreed that Mexican troops would leav e Texas and go across the Rio Grande, released all Texians still held prisoner by the Mexican army, promised humanitarian treatment of all Mexicans still held by Texas and agreed to send Santa Anna to Vera Cruz. An additional secret agreement reinforced the promise that Santa Anna would not attack or cause the Mexican army to attack Texas again, that he would facilitate matters in Mexico such that negotiations with the government by representatives from Texas will successfully settle all differences and result in Texian independence and reiterates the promise to send Santa Anna to Vera Cruz so that he could follow through on these treaties. The public treaty was rejected by the Mexican Senate a few days later. | May 14, 1836 |
Texas |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| Santa Anna taken prisoner and brought to Sam Houston; Santa Anna is forced to sign an armistice calling for an end to the fighting and orders requiring the remaining Mexican armies in Texas to retreat to San Antonio and Victoria. Upon receiving the news, Gen Filisola chose to withdraw the armies all the way across the Rio Grande. | April 22, 1836 |
Texas |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| Battle of San Jacinto in which the Texians led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexican army under Santa Anna in 19 minutes killing 630 Mexican soldiers and capturing another 730 while only having 2 killed and 6 more fatally wounded. | April 21, 1836 |
Texas |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| Gen. Urrea’s portion of the Mexican army camps at Madam Powell’s on its way to Columbia and Brazoria. | April 20, 1836 |
Texas |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| Also on the 15th, the steamboat Yellowstone came down the Brazos River from Groce’s plantation and ran through Fort Bend loaded with cotton despite some of the Mexicans trying to shoot or lasso it. | April 15, 1836 |
Texas |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| Mexican army rests at William Stafford’s plantation; another division of the Mexican army under Gen. Vicente Filisola arrived and camped near the bend in the Brazos River (in present-day Richmond) | April 15, 1836 |
William Stafford's plantation is located in parts of present day Stafford, Sugar Land and Missouri City, the exact camping spot I don't know (The plantation's historical marker is located east of Dulles Ave. and south of Ave. E and the canal.) |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| A 600-man Mexican army marched from the east side of the Brazos towards Harrisburg with a division under Gen. Joaquín Ramírez y Sesma remaining at Thompson’s Ferry/Fort Bend on the west side of the Brazos. Most of the residents of Fort Bend and surrounds had moved east with the Runaway Scrape or hidden in cane brakes and brush wherever they could. | April 14, 1836 |
Texas |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| A portion of the Mexican army crosses the Brazos and another portion moves into Fort Bend (Richmond) and skirmishes with Texians guarding Thompson’s Ferry led by Wily Martin; Martin’s group soon left and camped at Churchill Fulshear’s on the night of the 12th. All portions of the Mexican army here are the third led by Santa Anna. By the 14th all of that portion of the Mexican army had crossed the Brazos at Thompson’s Ferry. | April 11, 1836 |
Thompson's Ferry was at or near the northwest corner of the Brazos River at Richmond; Churchill Fulshear's league contains much of modern day Fulshear - The exact camp spot is unknown |
Texas and Fort Bend County |
| Mexican army under Santa Anna arrives at Madam Powell’s homesite | April 10, 1836 |
East of the San Bernard River and south of present day Kendleton |
Texas and Fort Bend County |