Sterling
Clack
Robertson
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Elijah Robertson
and Sarah (Maclin) Robertson
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 56
in District of Milam, Republic of Texas
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- Participated in the Battle of New Orleans
- January 8, 1815, with the rank of Major
- an Empresario of the note in Texas
- Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence
- Commanded a Company in 1836 and was detailed by
- General Sam Houston as a guard at Harrisburg, April 21
- Senator in the 1st and 2nd Congresses of the Republic[1]
Biography
Sterling Robertson served for Tennessee in the War of 1812
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Sterling Clack Robertson was born on October 2, 1785, in Nashville, Tennessee. [2]His father was Elijah Robertson, a brother of General James Robertson, the "Father of Middle Tennessee," and his mother was Sarah (Maclin) Robertson, for whom he later named the capital of his colony in Texas. He had two sons: James Maclin Robertson with Rachael Smith, and Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson II with Frances King.
Sterling Clack Robertson (1785-1842) served as a deputy quartermaster during the War of 1812. [3]
After the war, he owned a plantation in Giles County and was a stockholder in the Texas Association, signing a memorial to the Mexican government in 1822 requesting permission to settle in Texas. In 1825, he left Nashville with Dr. Felix Robertson's party to explore and survey Robert Leftwich's Texas land grant, returning east in August 1826 to recruit settlers from Kentucky and Tennessee. [4]
In 1823 Sterling C. Robertson, his cousin Felix Robertson, and several other Tennesseeans representing the Texas Association of Nashville explored the area with the view of eventually colonizing it. On April 15, 1825, Robert Leftwich, acting as agent for the Texas Association, received a contract from the Mexican government to settle 800 families in an area bounded on the south by the Old San Antonio Road, on the north by the Comanche Trace, on the east by the Navasota River, and on the west by the watershed separating the Brazos and Colorado rivers. Leftwich, however, received the grant in his own name and upon his return to Nashville was forced to resign and sell his interest to the investment group. In 1826 Felix Robertson, who served as president of the group, led a party of thirty Tennesseeans to Texas, establishing a camp at the mouth of the Little Brazos.[5]
Robertson obtained a land contract in his own name in 1834, becoming empresario of Robertson's colony. His enthusiasm brought settlers from Tennessee to that area. During the Texas Revolution, Robertson led a company of Texas Rangers and served as a delegate at the convention at Washington-on-the-Brazos, where he signed the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the Republic of Texas in March 1836. From 1836 to 1838, Robertson was a senator in the First and Second congresses of the republic. He had two sons, James Maclin Robertson with Rachael Smith and Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson (1820-1879) with Frances King. Educated in San Antonio and Tennessee, Elijah served as postmaster general of the Republic of Texas (1839-1840) and assistant secretary of the Senate (1841-1842). He signed the Texas Ordinances of Secession in 1861 and served as aide-de-camp to Henry E. McCulloch during the Civil War. Pardoned by President Andrew Johnson following the war, Robertson was also a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1875". [6]
Sterling C Robertson (newspapers.com)
Death:4 Mar 1842 (aged 56), Robertson County, Texas, USA CENOTAPH: Old Nashville Cemetery, Milam County, Texas, USA [7]
Legacy
- Robertson County, Texas is named in Sterling's honor.
Sources
- ↑ http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txscrdrt/SterlingCRobertson.html
- ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23194598
- ↑ A Guide tothe Sterling Clack Robertson Family Papers
- ↑ From the description of Robertson, Sterling Clack, Family Papers, 1824-1865 (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 773940939
- ↑ http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hcr09
- ↑ From the description of Robertson, Sterling Clack, Family Papers, 1824-1865 (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 773940939
- ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23194598
- J. W. Baker, History of Robertson County, Texas (Franklin, Texas: Robertson County Historical Survey Committee, 1970). Malcolm D. McLean, comp. and ed.,
- Papers Concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas (19 vols., Arlington: University of Texas at Arlington Press, 1974-93). Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941).
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SUGGESTIONS FOR Robertson-6110 (*sources) :
Full name: Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson, >SR< (02 Oct 1785 - 04 Mar 1842) Add = spouse: Frances King *1 Add = child 1: Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson, Jr. 1820–1879 *5,*6 Add = child 2: Minerva Louisa (Robertson) Doran (1830–1879) m. John Doran 1809-1891
Add = family for Child 1 = Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson, >JR< = spouse 1: Eliza Hamer Robertson (1824-1852) on 29 Jul 1846 Robertson Cnty, Texas *2,*5 = children of ESCR, JR and Eliza Hamer: 1. Sterling Clack Robertson >III< (1849-1915) *4,*5 = spouse 2: Mary Elizabeth Dickey *3,*6 = children of ESCR, JR and Mary Elizabeth 1. Randolph Robertson (1853-1908) *6 m. Mary Cochran 2. Luella R. (Robertson) Fulmore (1855- ) *6, *7 3. Huling Parker Robertson (1857- ) *6, *7 4. Marion Robertson (1859- ) *6, *7 5. Maclin Robertson (1859-1931) *7 6. Mary Sterling (Robertson) Harrision (1862-1939) *7 7. Sophia Robertson (1864-1868) *7 8. Birdie (Robertson) Johnson (1868-1926) *7 9. Celeta (Robertson) Durst (1875-1948) *7
1 Name: Elijah Sterling [Clock] Clack Robertson Birth Date: 1820 Death Date: 1879 Father: Sterling [Clock] Clack Robertson Mother: Frances King Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Dickey (*2nd wife) Child: Mary Sterling Robertson
Source Citation Book Title: Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR Vol 035 Source Information Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
2 Name: Sterling C Robertson Marriage Date: 29 Jul 1846 Marriage Place: Robertson, Texas, USA Spouse: Eliza H Robertson Film Number:000963255
Source Information Ancestry.com. Texas, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1817-1965 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Original data: Marriage Records. Texas Marriages. Texas State Library and Archives Commission and various county clerk offices, Texas.
3 Name: [E. Sterling C. Robertson] Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson Marriage Date: 8 Nov 1852 Marriage Place: Travis, Texas, USA Spouse: Mary E. Dickey
Source Citation Texas Department of State Health Services; Austin, Texas Source Information Ancestry.com. Texas, U.S., Marriage Index, 1824-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Dodd, Jordan R, et. al. Early American Marriages: Texas to 1850. Bountiful, UT: Precision Indexing Publishers, 19xx. Hunting For Bears, comp. Texas marriage information taken from county courthouse records. Many of these records were extracted from copies of the original records in microfilm, microfiche, or book format, located at the Family History Library. Texas Department of State Health Services. Texas Marriage Index, 1966-2014. Texas Department of State Health Services, Texas. Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. (P.O. Box 740, Orem, Utah 84059) from county marriage records on microfilm located at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, in published books cataloged by the Library of Congress, or from county courthouse records.
4 Name: Sterling C Robertson Birth Date: 20 Apr 1849 Death Date: 2 Jan 1915 Death Place: San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA Father: E Sterling C Robertson Mother: Eliza Robertson
Source Citation Texas Department of State Health Services; Austin Texas, USA Source Information Ancestry.com. Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Texas Department of State Health Services. Texas Death Certificates, 1903–1982. Austin, Texas, USA.
5 Source Citation Year: 1850; Census Place: Austin, Travis, Texas; Roll: 915; Page: 155b Source Information Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
6 Source Citation Year: 1860; Census Place: Bell, Texas; Page: 322 Source Information Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
7 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24887360/elijah-sterling_clack-robertson