ELAM, JOHN (?-?). John Elam, one of Stephen F. Austin's^qv Old Three Hundred^qv settlers, was in the Austin colony as early as April 20, 1824, when he voted for the Baron de Bastrop^qv as deputy to the Constituent Congress of the eastern division of the Provincias Internas.^qv Elam's title to a league of land was granted on August 7, 1824. The census of March 1826 listed him as a single man aged between twenty-five and forty. In October 1830 William Munson advertised lumber for sale on the land granted to Elam, and on December 15, 1830, the ayuntamiento^qv of San Felipe de Austin declared the Elam league on the Brazos River vacant because he had abandoned the country without improving the land.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (3 vols., Washington: GPO, 1924-28). Eugene C. Barker, ed., "Minutes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin, 1828-1832," 12 parts, Southwestern Historical Quarterly 21-24 (January 1918-October 1920). 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). Texas Gazette, October 9, 1830.