[2] On February 10, 1852, the state legislature, in an attempt to satisfy both the colonists and the land company, passed a compromise law.
In May 1852, the agent of the land company, Henry Oliver Hedgcoxe, published an explanatory proclamation that stated the colonists had until August 4, 1852, to establish their claims with him.
The colonists were further aroused when the Texas attorney general, Ebenezer Allen, issued an opinion upholding the law.
[1] On July 16, 1852, Dallas's citizen militia group leader, John Jay Good,[3] led about 100 armed men from the mass meeting to both Hedgcoxe's home on Rowlett's Creek in Collin County, and then to his office, which was located along Office Creek[4] in Stewartsville - what is now The Colony, TX (a historical marker currently resides near the original location).
Except for relatively minor adjustments made in the courts and the legislature over the next ten years, the colonists' title difficulties were ended.