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Empresario Report

Empresario Report. Martin De Leon. Martin De Leon. Martin De Leon was a rancher and wealthy Mexican empresario. He was a young ambitious traveler Martin was born in 1756 in Burgos, Tamaulipas , Mexico. fAMILY. His wife was Patricia de la Garza, he married in 1795 He had 10 children

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Empresario Report

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  1. Empresario Report Martin De Leon

  2. Martin De Leon • Martin De Leon was a rancher and wealthy Mexican empresario. • He was a young ambitious traveler • Martin was born in 1756 in Burgos, Tamaulipas , Mexico.

  3. fAMILY • His wife was Patricia de la Garza, he married in 1795 • He had 10 children • Fernando De León:Candelaria De León:Silvestre De León:Guadalupe De León:Felix De León:Agapito De León:MaríaJesusa De León: Refugia De León:Augustina De León: Francisca De León

  4. FACTS • De Leon`s colony, the only prenominal Mexican colony in Texas, was established on in 1824 by himself. • He petitioned the provincial delegation of San Francisco de Bexar on April 8, 1824, for permission to settle forty-one Mexican families “of good moral character.’’ • Martins estate was worth $500,000

  5. Texas impact • Martín De León, the only Mexican empresario to found a colony in Texas • In 1807 De León petitioned the Spanish governor at San Antonio, Manuel Mariade Salcedo establish a colony in this vicinity.  • The government, however, denied this request as well as a second one in 1809, as a result of rising political troubles in Mexico and rumors that the De Leon's were not loyal to Spain. 

  6. DEATH • Martin died of a disease called cholera in 1833 • He was 77 when he passed

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