NOTE: TEXAS’ FIRST DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, read aloud to the assembled public in Military Plaza, Presidio and Villa of San Fernando de Bexar (at what is now called the Spanish Governor’s Palace in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas) on the APRIL 6, 1813 Source: Niles, H., Ed. (July 17, 1813). The Weekly Register, Vol. 4. (A transcription of this document was found on the Portal of Texas History accessed through Texas Historical Commission at https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth296840/. The Declaration of Independence together with the first Constitution of the State of Texas (April 17, 1813) can be found on pages 39-40 in the Documents of Texas History book, https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth296840/m1/52/.) Typist Peggy Weyel’s note: There are a few misspellings by modern standards. Examples: “conduced” and not “conducted,” “intrust” (1813) […]
1813 Texas Declaration of Independence
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