41 Facts About Samuel Maverick

Samuel Maverick's name is the source of the term "maverick", first attested in 1867.

Samuel Maverick was the grandfather of Texas politician Maury Maverick, who coined the term gobbledygook.

In October 1802, his father married Anderson's daughter Elizabeth, and nine months later, on July 23,1803, Samuel Maverick was born at his family's summer home in Pendleton District, South Carolina.

In 1814, the Samuel Maverick family expanded with the birth of another daughter, Lydia.

In 1828, Samuel Maverick traveled to Winchester, Virginia, to study law under Henry St George Tucker, Sr.

Samuel Maverick became licensed to practice law in Virginia on March 26,1829, and several weeks later he received his license to practice in South Carolina.

Samuel Maverick relocated to Georgia in early 1833, where he unsuccessfully ran a gold mine.

Samuel Maverick returned home at the end of the year.

Samuel Maverick did not enjoy running a plantation, primarily because he did not like supervising slaves.

Samuel Maverick took the brig Henry from New Orleans and arrived at Velasco, at the mouth of the Brazos River, in April 1835.

Samuel Maverick had long kept a diary, which provided a "generally faithful eyewitness record of the events" of the siege.

Cos surrendered on the morning of the sixth day, and Samuel Maverick attended the surrender ceremony with Burleson and Johnson.

The provisional Texas government had decided in November that all land sales in Texas after August 20,1835, would be voided, but with the hostilities temporarily over, Samuel Maverick continued to buy land in and around San Antonio.

Samuel Maverick remained with the army stationed at the Alamo.

Samuel Maverick signed the Texas Declaration of Independence the following day, and remained at the convention to help draft the new Texas constitution.

Samuel Maverick traveled with another delegate to Nacogdoches, where he remained for several weeks while suffering from an illness.

The elder Samuel Maverick offered to give the newlyweds his plantation, but Samuel Maverick refused as he wished to return to Texas.

Samuel Maverick continued to San Antonio and began buying headright certificates using the money he received from the sale of his lands in Alabama.

Samuel Maverick's family joined him in San Antonio on June 15,1838, where they rented rooms in the same home as Mary's brother William.

Samuel Maverick assumed that there would be an influx of settlers eager to buy the land, but emigration slowed after 1838.

Samuel Maverick received his Texas law license in November 1838 and began arguing cases in district court.

Samuel Maverick narrowly escaped death while on a surveying trip in late 1839.

Comanche raids were frequent in the San Antonio area, and Samuel Maverick joined the militia.

Samuel Maverick participated in the Council House Fight on March 19,1840, as the citizens of San Antonio attempted to capture or kill a band of Indians who had reneged on previous agreements to return captives.

Two days after the fight, Samuel Maverick left for New Orleans, leaving his family under the protection of his wife's two brothers.

Samuel Maverick used the money to buy two years of provisions, which he shipped to Linnville.

On behalf of the men, Samuel Maverick complained about the almost non-existent food rations and was rewarded with solitary confinement on January 5,1843.

Samuel Maverick was offered his freedom several times, on the condition that he publicly support Mexico's claim to Texas.

Samuel Maverick added a clause specifying that previously granted contracts would be forfeited if their terms were not met in the future.

Samuel Maverick was a member of the Finance, Public Lands and Indian Affairs committees, as well as the committee on Foreign Relations, which castigated Houston for not providing information to the Congress on his annexation negotiations with the United States.

In 1844, the tax rolls showed that Samuel Maverick owned 35,299 acres by title in Bexar County and Bexar Territory, with an additional 20,077 by survey, as well as 21 town lots.

Samuel Maverick barely survived drowning and lost all of his papers.

Fifteen years later, as the American Civil War loomed, Samuel Maverick supported Sam Houston in his call to support the Union.

Samuel Maverick served as mayor of San Antonio from 1862 to 1863.

Samuel Maverick died on September 2,1870, and is interred at San Antonio City Cemetery No 1.

US Representative from Texas Maury Samuel Maverick was his grandson.

The Samuel Maverick family donated them to the Alamo Mission where they are now on display.

Samuel Maverick's stated reason for not branding his cattle was that he didn't want to inflict pain on them.

Mary Samuel Maverick appended to her memoirs certain of her husband's correspondence and an extract of a letter from George Madison Samuel Maverick, her son and collaborator in her biography, to the St Louis Republic, apparently in response to an appeal to persons having sure information about the matter to convey their accounts to the editor.

Samuel Maverick left them to be managed by an African American family, who subsequently moved from the Gulf coast to the Conquista Ranch on the San Antonio River, where the cattle were left to multiply, graze, and wander away.

Over a decade later, enough had wandered off, or been taken by others, that the number of head ostensibly belonging to Samuel Maverick remained the same.