Richardson Perry - Bryan, TX
N 30° 41.730 W 096° 17.425
14R E 759537 N 3398989
Richardson Perry, as a S.F. Austin colonist, received a Mexican land grant that included the land of the Steep Hollow community near Bryan, TX and College Station, TX. Five months later, Mr. Perry was killed defending the Alamo on 6 March 1836.
Waymark Code: WM161A3
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/12/2022
Views: 1
Richardson Perry was an early settler in what is now known as the Bryan/College Station area of central Texas. Perry was one of Steven F. Austin's colonists and Perry was given a Mexican land grant which was granted at San Felipe. San Felipe was the administrative hub of Austin's colony at the time and this land grant of a league of land to Perry was one of the last to be given out.
The timing of this land grant was both fortunate and unfortunate. It was good that Perry received the official title to his league of land so that his relatives could inherit it over time. It was unfortunate in that Perry barely had time to develop his land because the fight for independence from Mexico had already begun at Gonzales even before Perry's land grant was completed. He was soon in San Antonio fighting in the Texas Volunteers during the Siege of Bexar. Not to long after that, Perry was with Captain Carey's artillery company inside the Alamo! Consequently, Perry died on 6 March 1836 during the fall of the Alamo defenses against the Mexican army lead by General Santa Anna.
Perry's land grant included the property now associated with Emmanuel Baptist Church and the Steep Hollow cemetery. It is at the entrance into the Steep Hollow cemetery were a large grey granite marker is placed that honors Richardson Perry as an early pioneer and settler of Texas as one of Austin's colonist as well as a defender at the Alamo.
This sign of history marker is found at the entrance of the Steep Hollow cemetery at the junction of FM 1179 at Steep Hollow Road, east of Bryan, TX or College Station, TX. The address given is of the adjacent property of Emmanuel Baptist Church that shares the use of Steep Hollow Road. The marker is at the cemetery entrance arch facing FM 1175, between the entrance arch and Steep Hollow Road.
The gray granite marker reads as follows:
Richard Perry
Born in Mississippi - 1817
Died at the Alamo - March 6, 1836
On October 10, 1835, Perry received this
league of land, 4428 acres, as one of the
Austin colonists. This was one of the final
Mexican land grants approved at San Felipe.
The first Battle of the Texas Revolution had taken
place at Gonzales the preceding week.
Two months later, Perry was in San Antonio with
The Texas Volunteers participating in the
Siege of Bexar. He was a member of
Cast. Carey's artillery company
at the Alamo
when it was overtaken by the
Mexican army under Santa Anna
March 2013
W. J. Bryan Chapter
Sons of the Republic of Texas
Group that erected the marker: W J Bryan Chapter, Sons of the Republic of Texas
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
7320 Steep Hollow Road
Bryan, TX USA
77808
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