Editing Anderson County, Texas (section)

===Anglo settlement===
In 1826, empresario [[David G. Burnet]] received a grant from the [[Coahuila y Tejas]] legislature to settle 300 families in what is now Anderson County.<ref>{{cite web|title=Empresario Contracts in the Colonization of Texas 1825-1834|publisher=Texas A & M University|url=http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/empresarios.htm|access-date=May 2, 2010| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615055417/http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/empresarios.htm|archive-date=June 15, 2010}} Wallace L. McKeehan,</ref> Most of the settlers came from the southern states and [[Missouri]].

Baptist leader [[Daniel Parker (Baptist)|Daniel Parker]]<ref name="Bowman">{{cite web|last1=Bowman |first1=Bob |title=The Parker Family: Daniel Parker |url=http://www.texasescapes.com/AllThingsHistorical/Parker-Family-Daniel-Parker-BB406.htm |website=Texas Escapes|access-date=May 2, 2010}} Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC.</ref> and eight other men organized the [[Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists|Pilgrim Predestinarian Regular Baptist Church]] in [[Lamotte Township, Crawford County, Illinois|Lamotte, Illinois]] in 1833. This entire group migrated to the Texas frontier, arriving in [[Austins Colony]] in November 1833,<ref name="Bowman"/> and establishing [[Fort Parker State Park|Fort Parker]] ([[Limestone County, Texas|Limestone County]]) in 1834. In October 1834, in consequence of "their members were becoming scattered in a wilderness," the Church agreed to adjourn until the majority of their members settled.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hohes |first1=Pauline Buck |title=A centennial history of Anderson County, Texas |date=1936 |publisher=Naylor Co |location=San Antonio, Tex. |page=90}}</ref>

After the Texas Revolution and the attack on [[Fort Parker massacre|Fort Parker]], Daniel Parker and some of the survivors moved to Fort Houston (Anderson County).<ref name="Caraway">{{cite web |last1=Caraway |first1=Georgia Kemp |title=Anderson County |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/anderson-county |website=Handbook of Texas Online |publisher=Texas State Historical Association |access-date=February 16, 2022}}</ref> They established a new community south of the fort.