South Texas Tejano landowners, 1850
1850 Census South Texas Spanish Land Grants POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM MAY 1, 2018 The first U.S. census taken of Texas was in 1850, after the state joined the Union. This first census includes information about the South Texas region, south of the Nueces River, that may be of interest to local historians and genealogists. After the U.S. war with Mexico ended, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo established the border at the Rio Grande River, the Texas Legislature created, on April 11, 1846, the county of Nueces out of San Patricio County. Nueces County, organized on July 12, 1846, consisted of the entire area south of the Nueces River. By the 1850 census, however, three other counties had been carved out of Nueces County: Webb on January 28, 1848, and Cameron and Starr two weeks later on February 12, 1848. (Luke Gournay. Texas Boundaries, Evolution of the State’s Counties, Texas A&M University Press.) The 1850 Census of South Texas included only two counts...