Part 2, Note 8
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Hans Peter Nielsen Gammel, comp., The Laws of Texas 1822-1897, (Austin: The Gammel Book Company, 1898), vol. 1, pp. 479, 503. The minutes of the ayuntamiento after January 1832 are lost; therefore, the exact date of the creation of the District of Alfred, and whether or not it actually was the ayuntamiento which created it, cannot be determined. Lacey, Burnam, and Robinson are known to have lived in the present Colorado County area. Prior to 1832, the subsidiaries of the municipality were known as precincts. Each precinct, of which by 1832 there were six, had its own officials (see Barker, ed., "Minutes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, October 1920, pp. 161-162). Robinson was among the most politically active of the Colorado settlers between 1828 and 1832. Elections were regularly held at his home, and, in 1831, he served as regidor in the ayuntamiento (see Barker, ed., "Minutes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2, October 1918, p. 180, vol. 22, no. 4, April 1919, p. 354, vol. 23, no. 2, October 1919, p. 151, vol. 23, no. 4, April 1920, p. 304, vol. 24, no. 1, July 1920, p. 81, vol. 24, no. 2, October 1920, p. 161). The District of Alfred evidently derived its name from the name of Robinson's plantation, which he had dubbed Alfred (see Colorado County Bond and Mortgage Records, Book B, p. 165).