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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: A map of the country between the Brassos and La Baca Rivers
Identifier: foth_0178
Creator: Rightor, Nicholas
Dates: 1822
Description: Nicholas Rightor is considered the first American to survey the Texas coast and to produce a sketch of the central region of Austin's 1821 land grant. The map shows in some detail the land from the La Baca (Lavaca) to the Brazos, with various descriptions of the river and the country.

Title: New Map of Texas with Contiguous American and Mexican States
Identifier: foth_0647
Creator: Young, J.H. (James Hamilton)
Dates: 1837
Description: Map by cartographer J. H. Young delineates land grants and includes an explanatory inset with empresarios and their grants.

Title: Texas
Identifier: foth_0091
Creator: Burr, David H., 1803-1875
Dates: 1834
Description: David H. Burr created the first large scale map of Texas extending to the Arkansas River in the Texas panhandle. As with his 1833 edition of the map, Burr shows the division of Texas lands into seventeen different grants, one of which is the De León Colony.