Velasco Is Where Two Texas Treaties Were Signed

After the Texan victory at San Jacinto, the final paperwork came at Velasco on the lower Brazos. The site is in today's Brazoria County. On May 14, 1836, ad interim president David G. Burnet and captured Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna signed two agreements there.

The public treaty ended hostilities and called for Mexican forces to withdraw beyond the Rio Grande. A secret agreement tied Santa Anna's release to a promise that he would seek Mexican recognition of Texas independence. It did not hold. On May 20, Mexico City declared his prisoner agreements void.

Velasco, now part of the Freeport area, was not just a footnote. It was where the revolution's paperwork was signed.