Mary Jane Briscoe (née Harris; August 17, 1819–March 8, 1903) was a founder of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.
[1] John Harris knew Moses Austin in Missouri, who persuaded him to participate as a settler in his colonization scheme of Mexican Texas.
[2] She attended school for several years before moving with her mother and brothers to Harrisburg, Texas in 1836, which had been founded by her father.
[3] They resided in a house on Main Street in Houston, then recently constructed by builder-architect, Thomas William Ward.
[5] Briscoe was one of the founders of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT) when she convened an organizational meeting at her home in Houston on November 6, 1891.