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COMMUNICATED.
Died, of yellow fever, in New- Orleans, on Friday the 14th of August, after 63 hours sickness in the 26th year of his age, Mr. JAMES E. B. AUSTIN, a native of Potosi, Washington county, Missouri, and for the last eight years, a resident of Texas. He visited New-Orleans on business, had been there but a few days, and was to have left there the day he was taken sick.
Stimulated by a laudable enterprise, Mr. Austin while yet in his youth left the comforts and the enjoyments of society, and followed his brother Stephen F. Austin, Esq. to this country to share the toils and privations on carrying into effect the grand project of their deceased father, Moses Austin, of forming a settlement of enterprising and intelligent emigrants from the United States in the wilderness in Texas.
The prospects of the deceased were very flattering and he was just beginning to realize some of the pleasing hopes that had supported him thro' the arduous difficulties and hardships, which he fully shared in common, with the first settlers of Texas, and in the bosom of his own family he enjoyed happiness and tranquility. Vain and fleeting are all human calculations-death suddenly tore him from his wife and infant son, his connexions and his friends: to them his worth and the extent of their irreparable loss, is well known and most deeply felt. This rising community has lost an active member, who was universally esteemed, and whose great ambition and ardent exertions were closely connected with its prosperity and improvement: society has lost one of its brightest ornaments, and friendship has been deprived of one whose acts were as disinterested as is permitted to human acts and human intentions to be.
Source: The Texas Gazette, San Felipe de Austin, Texas, Saturday, October 24, 1829; Pg. 2, Column 1
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AUSTIN, JAMES ELIJAH BROWN (1803–1829). James Austin, brother of Stephen F. Austin and one of the Old Three Hundred, son of Moses and Maria (Brown) Austin, was born in Missouri on October 3, 1803. From 1811 to 1817 he attended an academy in Washington, Connecticut. He joined his brother Stephen in Texas in December 1821, established residence, and became entitled to land grants from the Mexican government. On August 19, 1824, he received title to three leagues on the west bank of the Brazos River, encompassing Eagle Nest and Manor lakes; a labor in what is now western Brazoria County; and another labor that later became part of Waller County. Austin returned to Missouri in May 1824 to bring his mother and sister Emily (later Emily Austin Perry) to Texas, but in 1825 he was forced to return to Texas alone.
Shortly after his return he formed a partnership with John Austinqv and engaged in the coasting trade and merchandising. In 1826, when the proposed constitution for the state of Coahuila and Texas threatened to abolish slavery, Austin lobbied in Saltillo for a continuation of the institution and was instrumental in gaining a modification that recognized those slaves already in Texas. He also brought to Texas 300 Spanish horses from Saltillo in 1826. In 1827 he helped to put down the Fredonian Rebellion. Austin married Eliza Martha Westall on March 20, 1828; they named their son, born in February 1829, Stephen F. Austin, Jr. James Austin died of yellow fever in New Orleans on August 14, 1829.
Source: "The Old Three Hundred: A List of Settlers in Austin's First Colony," by Lester G. Bugbee, published in Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Society Association, Oct., 1897; submitted by Charles A. Barcarisse.
NOTE: James Elijah Brown Austin, b. 3 Oct 1803; d. 14 Aug 1829, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA; s/o Moses Austin and Maria Brown; md. Elizabeth Martha Westall, 20 Mar 1828, Brazoria County Texas.
COMMUNICATED.
Died, of yellow fever, in New- Orleans, on Friday the 14th of August, after 63 hours sickness in the 26th year of his age, Mr. JAMES E. B. AUSTIN, a native of Potosi, Washington county, Missouri, and for the last eight years, a resident of Texas. He visited New-Orleans on business, had been there but a few days, and was to have left there the day he was taken sick.
Stimulated by a laudable enterprise, Mr. Austin while yet in his youth left the comforts and the enjoyments of society, and followed his brother Stephen F. Austin, Esq. to this country to share the toils and privations on carrying into effect the grand project of their deceased father, Moses Austin, of forming a settlement of enterprising and intelligent emigrants from the United States in the wilderness in Texas.
The prospects of the deceased were very flattering and he was just beginning to realize some of the pleasing hopes that had supported him thro' the arduous difficulties and hardships, which he fully shared in common, with the first settlers of Texas, and in the bosom of his own family he enjoyed happiness and tranquility. Vain and fleeting are all human calculations-death suddenly tore him from his wife and infant son, his connexions and his friends: to them his worth and the extent of their irreparable loss, is well known and most deeply felt. This rising community has lost an active member, who was universally esteemed, and whose great ambition and ardent exertions were closely connected with its prosperity and improvement: society has lost one of its brightest ornaments, and friendship has been deprived of one whose acts were as disinterested as is permitted to human acts and human intentions to be.
Source: The Texas Gazette, San Felipe de Austin, Texas, Saturday, October 24, 1829; Pg. 2, Column 1
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AUSTIN, JAMES ELIJAH BROWN (1803–1829). James Austin, brother of Stephen F. Austin and one of the Old Three Hundred, son of Moses and Maria (Brown) Austin, was born in Missouri on October 3, 1803. From 1811 to 1817 he attended an academy in Washington, Connecticut. He joined his brother Stephen in Texas in December 1821, established residence, and became entitled to land grants from the Mexican government. On August 19, 1824, he received title to three leagues on the west bank of the Brazos River, encompassing Eagle Nest and Manor lakes; a labor in what is now western Brazoria County; and another labor that later became part of Waller County. Austin returned to Missouri in May 1824 to bring his mother and sister Emily (later Emily Austin Perry) to Texas, but in 1825 he was forced to return to Texas alone.
Shortly after his return he formed a partnership with John Austinqv and engaged in the coasting trade and merchandising. In 1826, when the proposed constitution for the state of Coahuila and Texas threatened to abolish slavery, Austin lobbied in Saltillo for a continuation of the institution and was instrumental in gaining a modification that recognized those slaves already in Texas. He also brought to Texas 300 Spanish horses from Saltillo in 1826. In 1827 he helped to put down the Fredonian Rebellion. Austin married Eliza Martha Westall on March 20, 1828; they named their son, born in February 1829, Stephen F. Austin, Jr. James Austin died of yellow fever in New Orleans on August 14, 1829.
Source: "The Old Three Hundred: A List of Settlers in Austin's First Colony," by Lester G. Bugbee, published in Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Society Association, Oct., 1897; submitted by Charles A. Barcarisse.
NOTE: James Elijah Brown Austin, b. 3 Oct 1803; d. 14 Aug 1829, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA; s/o Moses Austin and Maria Brown; md. Elizabeth Martha Westall, 20 Mar 1828, Brazoria County Texas.
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COMMUNICATED.
Died, of yellow fever, in New- Orleans, on Friday the 14th of August, after 63 hours sickness in the 26th year of his age, Mr. JAMES E. B. AUSTIN, a native of Potosi, Washington county, Missouri, and for the last eight years, a resident of Texas. He visited New-Orleans on business, had been there but a few days, and was to have left there the day he was taken sick.
Stimulated by a laudable enterprise, Mr. Austin while yet in his youth left the comforts and the enjoyments of society, and followed his brother Stephen F. Austin, Esq. to this country to share the toils and privations on carrying into effect the grand project of their deceased father, Moses Austin, of forming a settlement of enterprising and intelligent emigrants from the United States in the wilderness in Texas.
The prospects of the deceased were very flattering and he was just beginning to realize some of the pleasing hopes that had supported him thro' the arduous difficulties and hardships, which he fully shared in common, with the first settlers of Texas, and in the bosom of his own family he enjoyed happiness and tranquility. Vain and fleeting are all human calculations-death suddenly tore him from his wife and infant son, his connexions and his friends: to them his worth and the extent of their irreparable loss, is well known and most deeply felt. This rising community has lost an active member, who was universally esteemed, and whose great ambition and ardent exertions were closely connected with its prosperity and improvement: society has lost one of its brightest ornaments, and friendship has been deprived of one whose acts were as disinterested as is permitted to human acts and human intentions to be.
Source: The Texas Gazette, San Felipe de Austin, Texas, Saturday, October 24, 1829; Pg. 2, Column 1
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AUSTIN, JAMES ELIJAH BROWN (1803–1829). James Austin, brother of Stephen F. Austin and one of the Old Three Hundred, son of Moses and Maria (Brown) Austin, was born in Missouri on October 3, 1803. From 1811 to 1817 he attended an academy in Washington, Connecticut. He joined his brother Stephen in Texas in December 1821, established residence, and became entitled to land grants from the Mexican government. On August 19, 1824, he received title to three leagues on the west bank of the Brazos River, encompassing Eagle Nest and Manor lakes; a labor in what is now western Brazoria County; and another labor that later became part of Waller County. Austin returned to Missouri in May 1824 to bring his mother and sister Emily (later Emily Austin Perry) to Texas, but in 1825 he was forced to return to Texas alone.
Shortly after his return he formed a partnership with John Austinqv and engaged in the coasting trade and merchandising. In 1826, when the proposed constitution for the state of Coahuila and Texas threatened to abolish slavery, Austin lobbied in Saltillo for a continuation of the institution and was instrumental in gaining a modification that recognized those slaves already in Texas. He also brought to Texas 300 Spanish horses from Saltillo in 1826. In 1827 he helped to put down the Fredonian Rebellion. Austin married Eliza Martha Westall on March 20, 1828; they named their son, born in February 1829, Stephen F. Austin, Jr. James Austin died of yellow fever in New Orleans on August 14, 1829.
Source: "The Old Three Hundred: A List of Settlers in Austin's First Colony," by Lester G. Bugbee, published in Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Society Association, Oct., 1897; submitted by Charles A. Barcarisse.
NOTE: James Elijah Brown Austin, b. 3 Oct 1803; d. 14 Aug 1829, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA; s/o Moses Austin and Maria Brown; md. Elizabeth Martha Westall, 20 Mar 1828, Brazoria County Texas.
COMMUNICATED.
Died, of yellow fever, in New- Orleans, on Friday the 14th of August, after 63 hours sickness in the 26th year of his age, Mr. JAMES E. B. AUSTIN, a native of Potosi, Washington county, Missouri, and for the last eight years, a resident of Texas. He visited New-Orleans on business, had been there but a few days, and was to have left there the day he was taken sick.
Stimulated by a laudable enterprise, Mr. Austin while yet in his youth left the comforts and the enjoyments of society, and followed his brother Stephen F. Austin, Esq. to this country to share the toils and privations on carrying into effect the grand project of their deceased father, Moses Austin, of forming a settlement of enterprising and intelligent emigrants from the United States in the wilderness in Texas.
The prospects of the deceased were very flattering and he was just beginning to realize some of the pleasing hopes that had supported him thro' the arduous difficulties and hardships, which he fully shared in common, with the first settlers of Texas, and in the bosom of his own family he enjoyed happiness and tranquility. Vain and fleeting are all human calculations-death suddenly tore him from his wife and infant son, his connexions and his friends: to them his worth and the extent of their irreparable loss, is well known and most deeply felt. This rising community has lost an active member, who was universally esteemed, and whose great ambition and ardent exertions were closely connected with its prosperity and improvement: society has lost one of its brightest ornaments, and friendship has been deprived of one whose acts were as disinterested as is permitted to human acts and human intentions to be.
Source: The Texas Gazette, San Felipe de Austin, Texas, Saturday, October 24, 1829; Pg. 2, Column 1
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AUSTIN, JAMES ELIJAH BROWN (1803–1829). James Austin, brother of Stephen F. Austin and one of the Old Three Hundred, son of Moses and Maria (Brown) Austin, was born in Missouri on October 3, 1803. From 1811 to 1817 he attended an academy in Washington, Connecticut. He joined his brother Stephen in Texas in December 1821, established residence, and became entitled to land grants from the Mexican government. On August 19, 1824, he received title to three leagues on the west bank of the Brazos River, encompassing Eagle Nest and Manor lakes; a labor in what is now western Brazoria County; and another labor that later became part of Waller County. Austin returned to Missouri in May 1824 to bring his mother and sister Emily (later Emily Austin Perry) to Texas, but in 1825 he was forced to return to Texas alone.
Shortly after his return he formed a partnership with John Austinqv and engaged in the coasting trade and merchandising. In 1826, when the proposed constitution for the state of Coahuila and Texas threatened to abolish slavery, Austin lobbied in Saltillo for a continuation of the institution and was instrumental in gaining a modification that recognized those slaves already in Texas. He also brought to Texas 300 Spanish horses from Saltillo in 1826. In 1827 he helped to put down the Fredonian Rebellion. Austin married Eliza Martha Westall on March 20, 1828; they named their son, born in February 1829, Stephen F. Austin, Jr. James Austin died of yellow fever in New Orleans on August 14, 1829.
Source: "The Old Three Hundred: A List of Settlers in Austin's First Colony," by Lester G. Bugbee, published in Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Society Association, Oct., 1897; submitted by Charles A. Barcarisse.
NOTE: James Elijah Brown Austin, b. 3 Oct 1803; d. 14 Aug 1829, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA; s/o Moses Austin and Maria Brown; md. Elizabeth Martha Westall, 20 Mar 1828, Brazoria County Texas.
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