Captain Andrew Briscoe

Briscoe was born on his father Parmenas Briscoe's plantation in Claiborne County, Mississippi, and made several trips between Mississippi and Texas on horseback before registering as a citizen of Coahuila and Texas in 1833. He presented protest resolutions against the irregular collection of customs at mass meetings in Anahuac and Harrisburg, and that July defended the Texans' actions in a letter to the Brazoria Texas Republican. He went to the Convention of 1836 with Lorenzo de Zavala but left early to return to the army. After 1839 he dealt in cattle.

What the plaque says

Captain Andrew Briscoe Born in Mississippi November 25, 1810 Came to Texas in 1833 A Volunteer in the Army at Anahuac, 1835 Commanded A Company at the Capture of San Antonio, 1835 Signed the Texas Declaration of Independence Commanded a Company at San Jacinto First Chief Justice of Harrisburg Municipality, 1836 Died in New Orleans October 4, 1849 Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Cemetery — steps away
  A hill east of the Capitol that began with one general's grave in 1851 and now holds Stephen F. Austin, governors, Barbara Jordan and more than 2,000 Confederate veterans and widows.
• French Legation State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  A raised pine house built in 1840 and 1841 for France's envoy to the Republic of Texas, who left Austin in a rage over a neighbor's pigs before it was finished.
• George Washington Carver Museum — 0.4 mi
  East Austin's museum of Black history and culture, grown from a segregated branch library moved across town in 1933, with a permanent exhibit on Juneteenth at its core.
• Texas State Capitol — 1.0 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.

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• Daniel Shipman — steps away
• Xavier Blanchard DeBray — steps away
• Dr. Thomas Jefferson Gazley — steps away
• Dr. George Moffit Patrick — steps away