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WALKER, THOMAS (?-?). Thomas Walker was a partner of Thomas H. Borden and Henry W. Johnson^qv as one of Stephen F. Austin's^qv Old Three Hundred^qv colonists. They received title to a sitio^qv of land in present Brazoria County on July 29, 1824. Worth S. Ray, in Austin Colony Pioneers, records that Thomas Walker, a son of James Walker, married Amanda Middleton on May 20, 1840. Whether or not this Thomas Walker is the original colonist is not certain.

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).

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