David burkett biography and dewitt colony

SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS
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Colony Expansion: The Burkets, Kents and Zumwalts

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Arrival at Lavaca Bay.

Among the arrivals in 1829-1830 which brought the total population of the DeWitt Colony to 158, 30 families and 34 single men, were the five interrelated Burket, Kent and Zumwalt families from St.

Charles County, Missouri, ancestors of the author. The five families were prototypes of the majority of DeWitt Colonists who gave up the relative security of their past lives on the frontiers of the "Upper Southern States" of the United States of the north for the offer of land, local self-determination and citizenship within the United States of Mexico under the Constitution of 1824.

Since many leaders involved in colonization of Texas and the empresarios Stephen F. Austin and Green DeWitt were from the state and first recruited from there, Missourians constituted the majority of the DeWitt Colonists