Stephen Samuel Perry

Who was Stephen Samuel Perry?

Stephen Samuel Perry managed Peach Point Plantation, and is credited with amassing and preserving significant historical manuscripts related to Texas history.

Peach Point Plantation is an official historic landmark of Texas located in Jones Creek, but from the 1830s through the Civil War, Peach Point was an agricultural business located in Jones Creek. Peach Point was also the place Stephen F. Austin called home.

As proprietor of Peach Point Plantation, Stephen S. was responsible for agricultural planning, together with financial and legal decisions related to the business as well as the homestead. Stephen S. was advised by Mordello Munson. Stephen S. opted to focus on sugar cane growth in the 1850s.

In the process of decades of responsible management and communication, Stephen S. received and cataloged original source papers and manuscripts of early Texas history.