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SAN PIERRE, JOSEPH (?-?). Joseph San Pierre, one of Stephen F. Austin's^qv Old Three Hundred^qv colonists, came to Texas by August 24, 1824, when he was granted the title to labor of land in what is now Fort Bend County. The census of March 1826 listed him as a farmer and stock raiser. At that time he was aged over fifty and had a wife, Peggy, three sons, and two daughters. One of the daughters married Samuel Chance.^qv

BIBLIOGRAPHY: 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). Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Gammel, 1900; rpt., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983).

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