ALLEY, THOMAS V. (?-1826). Thomas V. Alley, one of Stephen F. Austin's^qv Old Three Hundred^qv colonists, was the son of Catherine (Baker) and Thomas Alley. He left Missouri in the spring of 1822 with his brothers, Abraham and John C. Alley.^qqv Carrying letters and supplies for Austin, he and his brothers arrived at Galveston by way of New Orleans on the schooner James Lawrence and traveled to the Atascosito Crossing^qv of the Colorado River, where other members of the Alley family settled. Alley posted bond as constable of the Colorado District in January 1824; he and his brother William A. Alley, Jr.,^qv received title to a league of land now in Brazoria County on July 29, 1824. The Austin colony census of 1826 listed Thomas Alley as a farmer, single and aged between twenty-five and forty. During the spring of 1826, while on a campaign against the Waco and Tonkawa Indians, Alley was crossing the Colorado River when he fell from his horse and drowned.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (3 vols., Washington: GPO, 1924-28). Lester G. Bugbee, "The Old Three Hundred: A List of Settlers in Austin's First Colony," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 1 (October 1897). J. H. Kuykendall, "Reminiscences of Early Texans," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 6-7 (January, April, July 1903).