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===Settlers=== Empresarios [[Sterling C. Robertson]] and Robert Leftwich received a grant from the [[Coahuila y Tejas]] legislature to settle 800 families.<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 3, 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> By contracting how many families each grantee could settle, the government sought to have some control over colonization. Robertson began bringing American settlers to his Nashville colony (later called [[Robertson's Colony]]).<ref>{{Handbook of Texas | name=Robertson's Colony| id= uer01| author=McLean, Malcolm D | retrieved=May 3, 2010}} Texas State Historical Association</ref> Most of the settlers came from [[Alabama]], [[Tennessee]], and [[Mississippi]]. He named the capital of the Nashville colony [[Sarahville de Viesca, Texas|Sarahville de Viesca]].<ref>{{Handbook of Texas | name=Sarahville de Viesca| id= hvs44| author=McLean, Malcolm D | retrieved=May 3, 2010}} Texas State Historical Association</ref> Fort Viesca was built in 1834, with a name change to Fort Milam in 1835.<ref>{{Handbook of Texas | name=Fort Milam | id= uef11| author=Cutrer, Thomas W | retrieved=May 3, 2010}} Texas State Historical Association</ref> The settlement was deserted during the Runaway Scrape<ref>{{Handbook of Texas | name=Runaway Scrape | id=pfr01 | author=Covington, Carolyn Callaway | retrieved=May 3, 2010}} Texas State Historical Association</ref> of 1836, and reoccupied after the [[Battle of San Jacinto]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Battle of San Jacinto | publisher=Texas State Library and Archives Commission | url=http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/republic/san-jacinto.html | access-date=May 3, 2010}} Texas State Library and Archives Commission</ref>
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