Friedrich Ernst flees with his family from Oldenburg

Hears about Stephen Austin's colony in Texas while traveling to New Orleans

March 9: Ernst arrives in Harrisburg with family (first German family in Texas)

April 16: obtains land grant

Ernst starts writing letters home to family and friends, telling them how wonderful Texas is.

Detlef Dunst also wrote a book telling the German people about Texas and recommendation on what to pack.

Fisher-Miller Land Grant: petitioned by Henry Fisher and Burchard Miller, allowed for 1,000 immigrant families to settle in Texas

Adelsverein formed: Society for the Protection of the German Immigrants in Texas, formed to help settlers adjust to relocating

Nassau Plantation established by Count Joseph of Boos-Waldeck

Was meant to be used as a base for incoming settlers but Adelsverein ended up sending people to New Braunfels and Fredricksburg

Cotton plantation using labor of enslaved African-Americans

Meusebach-Comanche Treaty: formed between Santa Anna, other head chiefs of the Comanche tribe, and John O. Meusebach

Allowed German settlers to travel through Comanche territory safely and the Comanche people to travel to German settlements

Technically considered still in effect today