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BALIS, DANIEL E. (?-?). Daniel E. Balis (Bayles, Bayless) was a partner of Isaac Van Dornqv as one of Stephen F. Austin'sqv Old Three Hundredqv families. In October 1824 Balis was living in the San Jacinto area when he nominated Dr. Johnson C. Hunterqv as the surveyor for the vicinity. In March 1826 he worked for Austin as a hand on the boat Mexican. His title to a sitioqv of land now in Matagorda County was granted on April 14, 1828. Balis lived in Washington County at or near Chapel Hill. He died before 1837, when his estate was settled.

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). Worth Stickley Ray, Austin Colony Pioneers (Austin: Jenkins, 1949; 2d ed., Austin: Pemberton, 1970).

 

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