Samuel Maverick Research Paper

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Samuel Maverick was born on July 23, 1803 in Pendleton, South Carolina. His parents were Samuel and Elizabeth Maverick. Samuel Maverick was homeschooled till the age of 18. Samuel attended Yale into the sophomore class in September 1822 and graduated in 1825. Samuel returned back to his hometown after college in 1829 and started a new business, which was a law office. A couple years later he settled in Georgia for a short time. Then he moved from there to a plantation in Lauderdale Country to Alabama. Finally he decided on moving to Texas in March of 1835. Samuel quickly wanted to start building his very own land empire, but the Texas Revolution ruined that because it was quickly starting to approach. After Maverick had moved to San Antonio

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