colonists, and was escorted by the Texas Rangers to inspect his land grant. The first of Castro's colonists arrived at the land on September 2, 1844. A grant covering 3,878,000 acres over 5,000 square miles went to Henry Francis Fisher and Burchard Miller. On June 7, 1842, Fisher and Miller received a colonization land grant to settle 1,000 immigrant families of German, Dutch, Swiss, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian ancestry. The grant was issued as the Fisher–Miller Land Grant. Fisher and Miller were also unsuccessful in colonization efforts, but they were able to get their deadline extended. On June 26, 1844, they sold the grant to the Adelsverein. Henry Fisher was made part of the Verein colonial committee. On July 3 and July 6, 1842, two land grants were issued to Alexander Bourgeois d'Orvanne and Armand Ducos, for colonization of 1,700 families along the Uvalde, Frio, and Medina Rivers. On April 7, 1844, after their colonization efforts proved fruitless, Bourgeois and Ducos sold their grant to the Adelsverein, conditional on making Alexander Bourgeois d'Orvanne the colonial director. Unfortunately, the grant had already expired and Bourgeois was unable to get the deadline for colonization extended. References Further reading Crook, Cornelia English (1988). Henry Castro: A Study of Early Colonization in Texas. St. Mary's University Press, San Antonio, Texas. . Morgenthaler, Jefferson (2009). Promised Land: Solms, Castro, and Sam Houston's colonization contracts. TAMU Press. . Waugh, Julia Nott (repr. 2010). Castro-Ville and Henry Castro Empresario. Castro Colonies Heritage Association facsimile of first edition, 1934. External links Chapter 4: A History of the Castro Family from My Plan for Laredo by John Anthony Castro published 2005. 1786 births 1865 deaths American diplomats American people of Portuguese-Jewish descent Diplomats of the Republic of Texas French diplomats French emigrants to the United States 19th-century French Sephardi Jews Jews and Judaism in Texas People from Bayonne Castro County, Texas Tejano people