The government decide which people received the largest land grants in Texas as they wanted to reward people living in Texas before the Texas Revolution.
- The Constitution of 1836 gave all heads of families living in Texas on March 4, 1836 with the absence of Africans and Indians some acres of land.
Soldiers who arrived in Texas also received the same amount of land given to original colonists in a first class headright.
An empresario is known as an individual who brought settlers to the region in exchange for generous grants of land.
