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Texas Pioneer, William Whitaker Reed was born in Bedford County Tennessee, the second son of Michael and Martha reed. In 1833, Michael arranged passage for himself and his family to Natchitoches, Louisianna, of of the principal “jumping off” points for immigration to Texas. At that time, immigration into the Mexican province by American citizens had been suspended and control of Stephen F. Austin’s “upper colony” was in dispute Austin and Sterling C. Robertson. William Reed and his brother-in-law, William Crain Sparks, explored territory in what is now called Bell County that same year and selected various lands for members of the Reed Family along the Little River. Robertson gained control of the colony in May, 1834 while Asitin was under house arrest in Mexico, shortly after the repeal of the federal immigration law which had banned immigration.
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