George Harrison (1789 - 1835)

Born 1789 in South Carolina, United States of America

Died 1835 at about age 46 in Brazoria colony, Texas Colony

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Biography

Father of Alamo Scout

The year of birth for George Harrison's not been determined. A (DATE -GUESS) has been used based on the date of his son's birth and the fact he received a land patent in 1824. George married Caroline unknown and they had 2 sons, of which one was killed in the Battle of the Alamo in 1836.

Restrictions for the colonists in Texas Colony were to occupy and improve on the land within 2 years, build a house, clear the land for farming, become Mexican Citizens, Catholics, learn Spanish, and no slavery.

Most of the Stephen F Austin Three hundred families were in Texas before the Fall, 1824. Commissioner, Baron de Bastrop issued titles to the grants from July through August. In 1827 another man finished issuing the titles.

George Harrison moved the family to Texas. George applied to receive a land grant from Stephen F Austin's Old Three Hundred Colony . ^[1] Thus George was already a colonist when he received the grant to the title for a sitio of land located in the western part of Brazoria colony. He cleared the land, planted crops, and built a nice house for those days. Some references called it a plantation. Austin's Three Hundred colonists are listed here: [http://www.sonsofdewittcolony.org//adp/history/hispanic_period/tenoxtitlan/austins_colony.html Austin's Colony

SEE BELOW FOR Land Grant Link in line sourcing.

Grantee: George Harrison

Patent Date: 16 Aug 1824, Acres: 440-1

District: Brazoria

Survey/Blk/Tsp: 51, Patent #: 434, Patent Vol. 2, Class: Title

Old Three Hundred Land Grant

According to the Fort Bend Source, Original 300 settlers George Harrison had 1 sitio in Aug 16, 1824 Brazoria, 440-1 II, 434,) Original Titles, folio and page II, 434 ^[3] By Oct, 1825 he is on record as having signed a petition for a surveyor for San Jacinto to be appointed. ^[4][5]

He and family lived in the Cedar Lake section during that time frame, thus he is recorded as asking Stephen F Austin to come and make a treaty with the Karankawa Indians. (this tribe had been near this region and coastline for many hundreds of years.) ^[6]

The Texas Tax List Index lists George (Texas, 1820--1890 Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index

Name: George Harrison

State: TX

County: Bastrop Colony

Year: 1826

Database: TX Tax List Index, 1820-1829 ^[7]

This is the Mexican Land grant, signed by Austin in Spanish: George Harrison Mexican Land Grant

George is listed in the Stephen F Austin's Colony, Old Three Hundred. Note: glo file shows George with land, but is listed as deceased.^[8]

Old 300 Settlers listing

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.sfaold300.org/page-1326619
2. ↑ [http://genealogytrails.com/tex/gulfcoast/fortbend/history/original300.html
3. ↑ Source: The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 1, 1898; Transcribed by Jennifer Zimmermann
4. ↑ http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhaaa
5. ↑ Llerena B. Friend, "HARRISON, GEORGE," Handbook of Texas Online(http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhaaa), accessed February 10, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
6. ↑ http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhaaa
7. ↑ Ancestry.com. Texas, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1820-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
8. ↑ Old 300 Settlers listing

• Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (3 vols., Washington: GPO, 1924–28)
• Lester G. Bugbee, "The Old Three Hundred: A List of Settlers in Austin's First Colony," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 1 (October 1897)
• Lester G. Bugbee, Austin Colony (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1893)
• T. R. Fehrenbach, Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans (New York: Macmillan, 1968).

See also:

• 1836 Facts about the Alamo and the Texas War for Independence, edited by Mary Deborah Petite
• Alamo Traces: New Evidence and New Conclusions By Thomas Ricks Lindley