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The Lake Creek Settlement was an early settlement in Stephen F. Austin's second colony in the Mexican State of Coahuila y Tejas. On June 4, 1825, Stephen F. Austin signed an empresario contract with the state of Coahuila y Tejas that called for him to introduce 500 families in Texas. Order No. 24, March 7, 1827 defined the boundaries for purposes of this contract as follows: "Beginning on the west bank of the river San Jacinto, at the ten border leagues of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico; thence following its course with the right bank of said river to its source; thence on a straight line north to the road leading from Bexar to Nacogdoches; thence with the said road westward to a point due north from the headwaters of Lavaca Creek; thence on a line due south towards the sources of the aforesaid creek; thence down said creek, on the eastern bank of the same, to the boundary line of the ten littoral leagues of the Gulf of Mexico; thence eastward, leaving clear the ten littoral leagues, parallel with the coast, to the place of beginning." Miguel Arciniega was appointed commissioner for this colony in November, 1830.

The Lake Creek Settlement was located in the northeastern part of Austin's second colony between the west fork of the San Jacinto River and the stream known as Lake Creek. The first settlers received Mexican land grants there in 1831 and the area became known as the Lake Creek Settlement shortly thereafter. Early settlers who recieved land grants included John Corner, William C. Clark, Zachariah Landrum, Jacob Shannon, William Landrum, Mary Corner, Raleigh Rogers, Benjamin Rigby

The settlement was also called the Lake Creek District, the Precinct of Lake Creek, the neigborhood of Lake Creek or simply Lake Creek. The town of Montgomery, Texas would be founded by W.W. Shepperd in the middle of the Lake Creek Settlement in July of 1837. Shortly after Montgomery County, Texas was created on December 14, 1837, the town of Montgomery Texas was selected as the first county seat.

Charles B. Stewart, a delegate to the Convention of 1836 who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence, married Julia Shepperd in the Lake Creek Settlement "at the house of W.W. Shepperd on Lake Creek" on March 11, 1836 while still serving as a delegate to the Convention. John Marshall Wade who manned one of the famous "Twin Sisters" cannons at the Battle of San Jacinto was a Texas revolutionary soldier who enlisted from the Lake Creek Settlement in 1835.

External links

• History of the Lake Creek Settlement