Erasmos, Not Juan, The Seguin To Remember

Erasmos Seguin took his seat in the Mexican constitutional assembly on Dec. 11, 1823, as the lone deputy from the province of Texas.

Stephen F. Austin could not have made a better friend in 1821 than the patriarch of the Seguin clan. Sent by the governor to welcome Moses Austin back to Texas, Erasmos met instead the young foreigner who hoped to pick up where his dead dad had left off.

The first official to acknowledge Stephen