On February 4, 1841, the government of the Republic of Texas passed an act to encourage settlement of the vast wilderness now known as North Texas.

On August 30, 1841, President Sam Houston signed a contract with twenty businessmen of Louisville, Kentucky, and London, England, to establish a colony in North Texas.  Nine Americans and eleven Englishmen were named in the contract, later to be known as the Peters Colony, with its first headquarters in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch area.  William Smalling Peters and the names of four of his sons and sons-in-law headed the list of Americans.

Wives, sons, and daughters of American Revolutionary soldiers and patriots came to Peters Colony, settled, and made this their home.

Virtually all of our Peters Colony DAR Chapter members live on property which was originally part of Peters Colony.  Mrs. Mary Powers, great-great-great- grandmother of our organizing Regent, Mrs. Leon Mobley, applied for and received her 640 acre tract, Patent No 3 1292.

Peters Colony Chapter NSDAR was formally organized on October 9, 1990, in Carrollton, Texas, under the direction of the Texas State Regent, Mrs. Thomas J. Upchurch, Jr.  Twenty-three organizing members were appointed by NSDAR, including eleven juniors.  Mrs. Leon Mobley served as the organizing regent.

Peters Colony DAR members celebrated their first ten years of service in May 2000, at Farmers Branch Historical Park, where they re-dedicated a plaque placed in 1990.  The plaque commemorates Peters Colony and the NSDAR's Centennial of Service to the Nation.  Llda Mobley, Organizing Regent, presented the history of Peters Colony and the story of our DAR organization.

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