Which of the following statements is FALSE?

The false statement is that Nacogdoches’s original residents were settlers who left Stephen F. Austin’s colony. Nacogdoches was an older settlement with people already living there before Haden Edwards received land to establish his colony. Its population included Native Americans, Mexicans, and families from Louisiana, so it was not founded by people leaving Austin’s colony.

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