Richard Royster Royall

Royall reached Texas in 1832 aboard the Emblem with his family and twenty enslaved people, and he built a plantation in Matagorda County, Cedar Lane on Caney Creek. By September 1835 he chaired the Matagorda Committee of Public Safety, and in October the Central Committee at San Felipe, which raised men and money before the Consultation met. He advanced about $3,000 of his own, pressed Houston to take the offensive and quarreled with Ira Ingram. He lost the 1836 convention seat to Samuel Rhoads Fisher. The Handbook says he was buried at Cedar Lane, not in town.

What the plaque says

Richard Royster Royall Temporary chairman of the consultation, 1835 member of the general council of the provisional government of Texas 1835-1836. Born in Virginia June 1, 1798, died May 28, 1840.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site — 28 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.

More markers nearby

• Ira Ingram — steps away
• Dr. Albert Moses Levy — steps away
• Seth Ingram — steps away
• Sinclair David Gervais — steps away