Young Perry Alsbury
Young Perry Alsbury (1814 – November 19, 1877) was a soldier in the Texas Army during the Texas Revolution. He was among the group of volunteers for the mission that was successful in burning the strategically important Vince's Bridge during the Battle of San Jacinto. Additionally Juana Navarro Alsbury, the wife of his brother Horace Arlington Alsbury (AKA Horatio Alexander Alsbury), was one of the few survivors of the battle of the Alamo.
Young Perry Alsbury was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1814. He was the youngest son of ten children. His father, Thomas Alsbury, Jr., was a frontiersman and Indian spy in Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1790s, and then an early settler and tavern/innkeeper in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky in the early 1800s. His mother was Leah Catlett, born in Maryland. In the early 1820s the Alsbury family moved from Kentucky to Texas.Stephen F. Austin had written a letter to his father asking the Alsbury family, which included seven sons, to move to Texas and become part of the original Austin Colony. They settled in Brazoria on the Brazos River. Land was what had enticed the family to move to the area. Thomas Alsbury was given two leagues and 1½ labors (between 9,000 and 10,000 acres) (36 and 40 km²). (A league of land was 4,428.4 acres (17.921 km2), a labor 177.136 acres). The property was located on the west bank of the Brazos River. Three of the older sons of Thomas (Charles, Harvey, and Horace) were also given land. It was located in the Indian country, along the Gulf Coast, a bit west of where the Dow Chemical Company is now located. Young Perry Alsbury was too young at that time to obtain his own land grant.
When he was 22, during the 1836 Texas Revolution, Young Perry Alsbury fought on the Texian side in Captain Henry Wax Karnes’ Cavalry, better known as "Deaf Smith's spy company". Prior to the pivotal Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836, he joined a small company in passing close to enemy lines to burn the strategic Vince's Bridge to prevent reinforcement and escape of Antonio López de Santa Anna. The others who were with him on that mission were Deaf Smith, John Coker, Denmore W. Reaves, John T. Garner, Moses Lapham and Edwin R. Rainwater.
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