Dr. George Moffit Patrick, a physician and soldier born in Virginia in 1801, immigrated to Texas between 1827 and 1828 and became an important early settler and public figure. In 1835 he was among the volunteers under Captain William B. Travis who captured the Mexican fort and garrison at Anahuac, and he represented Liberty Municipality in the Consultation of 1835, signing on November 13 the articles that established the provisional government of Texas. On March 25, 1836, he was appointed to organize the Harrisburg County Militia and instructed to order two-thirds of the troops into active duty, and at great personal expense and effort he mustered twenty recruits into what became Captain Moseley Baker's company in General Sam Houston's army. Patrick purchased land in the 1830's that became the Patrick Survey, the largest and best-known area that later became Deer Park. After the Battle of San Jacinto, the Texas cabinet met at Patrick's cabin on the banks of Buffalo Bayou in present-day Deer Park and drafted the initial treaty papers there. Patrick died in Grimes County in 1889, and his remains and those of his wife were later moved to the State Cemetery in Austin, Texas.