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The Peneteka band, agreed to a peace treaty with the German Immigration Company under John O. Meusebach.

This treaty was not affiliated with any level of government.

Meusebach brokered the treaty in order to settle the lands on the Fisher-Miller Land Grant, from which were formed the ten counties of Concho, Kimble, Llano, Mason, McCulloch, Menard, Schleicher, San Saba, Sutton and Tom Green.

In contrast to many treaties of its day, this treaty was very brief and simple, with all parties agreeing to a mutual cooperation and a sharing of the land.

The treaty was agreed to at a meeting in San Saba County, Texas, and signed by all parties on May 9, 1847 in Fredericksburg, Texas.

The treaty was never broken.

Popular and misleading myth is that the treaty " is unbroken to this day ".

The treaty was very specifically between the Peneteka band and the German Immigration Company.

No other band or tribe was involved.

The German Immigration Company was dissolved by Meusebach himself shortly after it had served its purpose.

By 1875 the Comanches had been relocated to reservations.

Five years later, artist Friedrich Richard Petri and his family moved to to the settlement of Pedernales, near Fredericksburg.

Petri's sketches and watercolors gave witness to the friendly relationships between the Germans and various local Native American tribes.