Thomas Barnett (Settlers)

Thomas Barnett (born January 18, 1798 in Logan County , Kentucky , † September 20, 1843 in Fort Bend County , Republic of Texas ) was a Texas settler, politician and lawyer .

Career

Nothing is known about Thomas Barnett's youth. Before 1821 he moved to Livingston County, Kentucky, where he was sheriff for two years . Barnett then went to Texas in 1823, which was then still part of Mexico . He was one of the Old Three Hundred by Stephen F. Austin . On July 10, 1824 he received a title on a Leuge (= 4,428.4  acres ) of land on the east bank of the Brazos River , which is now part of southeastern Fort Bend County. The Austin Ward 1826 census shows Barnett owned two slaves at the time. Around 1825 he married the widow Nancy Spencer († 1863). In April 1824 she had moved to Texas from Tennessee with her then-husband William S. Spencer . Both belonged to the Old Three Hundred. Her husband was subsequently killed by the Karankawa Indians. Barnett and his wife had six children. On February 10, 1828 Barnett was elected Comisario of the District of Victoria in the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin . Barnett was elected alkald in 1829 . He represented the Austin Ward at the consultation and was elected an additional member of the General Council on November 18, 1835 . He was one of three delegates from the municipality of Austin, which at the Convention of 1836 in Washington attended, where he Declaration of Independence of Texas co-signed. On December 20, 1836, President Sam Houston named him Chief Justice of Austin County . Barnett represented Fort Bend County in the Third and Fourth Congresses of the Republic of Texas between 1838 and 1840 . He died at his home in Fort Bend County in 1843 and was then buried in the family cemetery, eight  miles from Richmond .

Web links

• Thomas Barnett on the Texas State Historical Association website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nancy Gray on the Texas State Historical Association website