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Title: Address to the Central Committee
Identifier: foth_0237_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1833-04
Description: Stephen F. Austin delivered an address to the "Gentlemen of the Convention," citing reasons for Texas separating from Coahuila.

Title: Austin to Cherokee Chiefs
Identifier: foth_0221_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1827-01-24
Description: Stephen F. Austin addresses his letter to his "friends and Brothers, the Chiefs and Warriors of the Cherokee living in Texas." Austin cautions the Cherokee against siding with the Nacogdoches men leading the rebellion against Mexico.

Title: Civil Commandant of the Colony forming on the Colorado and Brassos Rivers, in the Province of Texas . . .
Identifier: foth_0022
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1821
Description: Upon returning to New Orleans after an initial survey of Texas in the summer of 1821, Stephen F. Austin issued this permit stating the terms under which Austin would admit settlers to the colony. The formal procedure for an immigrant seeking admission to Austin's Colony required that he present himself to Austin upon arrival, register his name, and take an oath to support the federal and state constitutions. He thus became an applicant and was given a permit to select land. The settler then was required to give notice of his choice of land within thirty days and to petition for the land. Instructions were then issued to the surveyor to survey and plat the land and, upon payment of fees, the commissioner issued the title.

Title: A List of Titles Made Under the Special Contract with the State of Coahuila and Texas by Stephen F. Austin 1828 to Settle 300 Families within the Ten Border Leagues on the Gulf of Mexico
Identifier: foth_0641_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1833
Description: Title page of the List; Ledger recording the first settlers in Austin's original colony. Those settlers, the first Americans to settle in Texas legally, are known today as the Old Three Hundred. Austin's original plan for land distribution was superseded by a colonization law in 1823 by which each family received not less than one labor (177 acres) or one league (4428 acres) of land depending on whether the head of household was a farmer or stockman. Commissioner Baron de Bastrop issued the lands and titles to settlers designated by Austin. The three hundred families were nearly all in Texas by 1824, and the work of issuing the titles continued until 1827. One of the premier documents of Texas history, Austin's ledger lists the name of the settler and designates the location and quantities of land and the date of title.

Title: Map of Texas by Stephen F. Austin
Identifier: foth_0630
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1829
Description: Austin's detailed hand-drawn map showing the Austin and DeWitt colonies, various towns and rivers, and other natural features in Texas. Austin prepared the map sometime between 1823 and 1828 and based the map on firsthand observations as well as information gathered from travelers and surveyors.

Title: Map of Texas With Parts of the Adjoining States
Identifier: foth_0634
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1835
Description: The 1835 edition of Austin's 1830 Map of Texas, the first map to show on a large scale the beginnings of immigration into Texas from the United States. This later edition depicts additional land grants and presents a section of text stating the number of families to be located on each grant shown on the map.

Title: Prison diary
Identifier: foth_0035_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1835
Description: The small diary Austin smuggled into prison to record his thoughts and experiences during the nearly two years he was confined. The diary contains an inscription dated December 25, 1871, by Moses Austin Bryan, Austin's nephew, stating that he traced in ink over Austin's original pencil writings "which were made by him in this book whilst he was a prisoner in the cell no. 15 ... I have heard my Uncle Austin speak of this book that he managed to secret with a pencil when his person was examined."

Title: Prison Diary [facsimile]
Identifier: foth_0646
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1835
Description: Two pages from the small diary Stephen F. Austin smuggled into prison to record his thoughts and experiences during the nearly two years he was confined. This page includes a drawing of Austin's prison environment.

Title: Proclamation
Identifier: foth_0179_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1824-05-01
Description: Austin's announcement to the members of his colony that the Mexican Congress had adopted a Federal Republican system of government and that the "hitherto enslaved Spanish Provinces are now free and independent States."

Title: Stephen F. Austin to Mother and Sister
Identifier: foth_0155_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1824-05-04
Description: Austin's letter to his mother and sister concerning their move to the colony and expressing his desire that "nothing should be worn in the family but homespun . . . We are all poor in this country and therefore all on an equality and so long as this continues we shall all go on well and harmoniously."

Title: Terms of Settlement
Identifier: foth_0023_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1823-10-20
Description: Austin's letter setting out the terms by which settlers would be admitted to the colony. Among the qualifications, colonists were required to have "the most unequivocal and satisfactory evidence of unblemished character, good morals, sobriety, and industrious habits."

Title: To the citizens of Victoria
Identifier: foth_0213_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1827-01-01
Description: Stephen F. Austin attempts to quiet the unrest brought about by the rebellion in Nacogdoches. "An important crisis has arrived ... A small party of infatuated madmen at Nacogdoches have declared Independence."

Title: Translation of the laws, orders, and contracts on colonization from January 21, 1821, up to this time
Identifier: foth_0198_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1829-11
Description: Austin's contemporary account of the establishment of the first Anglo-American settlement of Texas, with his English translations of the documents and laws relating to the founding of the colony, is the first book of more than twelve pages printed in Texas.