Don Carlos Barrett

Barrett came to Texas from a law practice in Pennsylvania, licensed in Luzerne County in 1820. He swore allegiance to Mexico in April 1835 at Mina, now Bastrop, and led its committee of public safety. He helped write the Declaration of November 7, 1835, and chaired the committee drafting the provisional government's plan. The council elected him judge advocate of the army, but Governor Henry Smith vetoed the choice with a sharp attack on his character. Failing health ended his council service in February 1836, and he died at Warren D. C. Hall's house in Brazoria.

What the plaque says

Don Carlos Barrett A member of the General Council of the Provisional Government of Texas and by that body elected judge advocate general of the army with the rank of colonel, 1835. Born in Vermont June 22, 1788; died in Texas May 19, 1838.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site — 6.4 mi
  A sugar and cotton plantation on the San Bernard River whose enslaved builders and their descendants left one of the best-preserved African American archeological sites in Texas.
• Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site — 8.8 mi
  A Brazos sugar plantation built by enslaved people for the Patton family, later leased convict labor and Hogg family oil, now told through Rachel Patton and Sarah Ford.
• Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge — 16 mi
  Coastal prairie, salt marsh and bays between Freeport and Christmas Bay, where an auto tour along Big Slough passes wintering geese, ducks and wading birds in the tens of thousands.
• Brazos Bend State Park — 23 mi
  Oak and pecan bottomland, lakes and alligators on the Brazos River 45 miles from downtown Houston, with the museum's George Observatory in the woods.

More markers nearby

• Dr. Sofie Deligath Herzog — steps away
• Brazoria Townsite — steps away
• Site of the Home of John Austin — steps away
• Site of Jane Long's Tavern — 0.2 mi