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Chapter History
On February 4, 1841, the government of the Republic of Texas passed an act to encourage settlement of the vast wilderness now known as North Texas.
On August 30, 1841, President Sam Houston signed a contract with twenty businessmen of Louisville, Kentucky, and London, England, to establish a colony in North Texas. Nine Americans and eleven Englishmen were named in the contract, later to be known as the Peters Colony, with its first headquarters in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch area. William Smalling Peters and the names of four of his sons and sons-in-law headed the list of Americans. Wives, sons and daughters of American Revolutionary soldiers and patriots came to Peters Colony, settled and made this their home.
Virtually all of our Peters Colony DAR Chapter members live on property which was originally part of Peters Colony. Mrs. Mary Powers, great-great-great grandmother of our Organizing Regent, Mrs. Leon Mobley, applied for and received her 640-acre tract, Patent No. 31292.
Peters Colony Chapter, NSDAR, was formally organized on October 9, 1990, in Carrollton, Texas, under the direction of the Texas State Regent, Mrs. Thomas J. Upchurch, Jr. Twenty-three organizing members were appointed by NSDAR, including eleven juniors. Mrs. Leon Mobley served as the organizing regent.
Peters Colony Chapter celebrated its first ten years of service in May 2000 at Farmers Branch Historical Park, where it rededicated a plaque originally placed in 1990. The plaque commemorates Peters Colony and the NSDAR Centennial of Service to the Nation. Mrs. Leon Mobley, Organizing Regent, told the history of Peters Colony and the story of our chapter’s organization. In October 2010, the plaque was rededicated in recognition of the chapter’s twentieth anniversary as follows:
PETERS COLONY
Authorized August 30, 1841 by the
Republic of Texas. First colony
headquarters on Farmers Branch
within Three Forks of Trinity.
Peters Colony settled 600
families, including wives, sons
and daughters of American
Revolutionary Soldiers.
Presented 1990 to
Farmers Branch Historical Park by
Peters Colony Chapter DAR
Centennial Year of
National Society Daughters
of the American Revolution
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