John J. Linn

Linn's work in the revolution was supply and statecraft. He sat on Victoria's Committee of Safety and Correspondence and was army quartermaster from October 8, 1835, supplying the Goliad garrison. He served in the Consultation and the General Council and helped negotiate a neutrality treaty with the local Karankawa. Elected to the Convention of 1836, he could not reach Washington-on-the-Brazos to sign the Declaration of Independence because the Mexican army was advancing. After San Jacinto he interviewed the captured Santa Anna, though he was briefly arrested as a spy that June. In 1839 Victoria elected him its first mayor.

What the plaque says

John J. Linn John J. Linn, one of De Leon's colonists, merchant, alcalde, mayor, member of the Congress of the Republic of Texas. Born in Ireland June 19, 1798. Died in Victoria October 28, 1885. 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• De León Plaza — 0.8 mi
  The central plaza of Guadalupe Victoria, the only predominantly Mexican colony in Texas, founded by Martín De León in 1824 and taken from his family after 1836.
• Museum of the Coastal Bend — 1.6 mi
  Victoria College's museum of thirteen thousand years on the middle Texas coast, from Clovis hunters and Karankawa potters to La Salle's lost Fort St. Louis and the first ranches.
• Fannin Battleground State Historic Site — 16 mi
  The open prairie east of Goliad where Fannin's retreating column formed a square short of the Coleto Creek timber on March 19, 1836, and surrendered the next day.
• Fannin Memorial Monument — 25 mi
  The 1938 pink granite memorial over the common grave of Fannin's men, shot on the roads out of Goliad on Palm Sunday 1836, the grave itself found again only in the 1930s.

More markers nearby

• Dona Patricia De La Garza De Leon — steps away
• Don Martin De Leon — steps away
• Fernando De Leon — steps away
• Silvestre De Leon — steps away