empresario

Empresario

person who had been granted the right to settle on land in exchange for recruiting and taking responsibility for new settlers. The word is Spanish for entrepreneur

Type of settler in Coahuila y Tejas

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An empresario was a person who entered into a contract with the Spanish or Mexican government during the early nineteenth in order to settle on sizeable grants of land in exchange for recruiting families and settling land in areas of then Coahuila y Tejas.

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