Dr. George Moffit Patrick

Patrick earned a medical degree at Transylvania University in Kentucky and came to the Harrisburg district of Austin's colony in 1828 as a farmer; he was second alcalde of Anahuac in 1831 and regidor in 1832. In late 1835 he carried messages between the provisional government and the army besieging Bexar, reporting "much dissatisfaction and inquietude" in the camp. In March 1836 he mustered twenty recruits into Moseley Baker's company. During the Runaway Scrape his farm, Deepwater, was for a time the seat of the Texas government, and after San Jacinto Houston moved his army there.

What the plaque says

Dr. George Moffit Patrick A volunteer at Anahuac, 1832 Member of the Consultation, 1835 Commander of the Schooner "Flash" 1836 Most Worshipful Grand Master Grand (Masonic) Lodge of Texas, 1848-49 Born in Virginia, September 30, 1801 Died in Grimes County, Texas June 28, 1889 His Wife Martha Scaife Patrick Born in England in 1813 Died in Grimes County, Texas September 26, 1855 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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• William C. Crane — steps away
• Dr. Thomas Jefferson Gazley — steps away
• Judge Edwin Waller — steps away
• William E. Collard — steps away