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Disgruntled colonists meet to discuss government abuses
On this day in 1835, at the Lavaca-Navidad Meeting, an assembly of Jackson
Municipality colonists gathered to discuss the growing list of grievances
against the Mexican government of Antonio López de Santa Anna. The group
met at William Millican's gin house, located on the Job Williams league
some four miles northeast of Edna in Jackson County. The resolutions
discussed, written, and ratified at the meeting in many ways anticipated
the Texas Declaration of Independence, issued the following March. In 1936
the state of Texas erected a marker on the site of Millican's gin.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- LAVACA-NAVIDAD MEETING
- MILLICAN, WILLIAM
- KERR, JAMES
- SANTA ANNA, ANTONIO LOPEZ DE
- TEXAS DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
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