History of Fort Bend Co., Texas (Wharton, Clarence R., 1939)
(C. Avis Catalog entry #43)
[The map in the front shows that Santa Ana's line of march crossed the Alexander Hodge grant on 4/15/1836 from west to east, north of Oyster Creek.]
p. 40
"Three years later [1824] Austin, who had withheld these five locations in his first Colony, decided to release them for settlement and they were located for and granted to Jane Wilkins, Jesse H. Cartwright, Mills M. Battle, Alexander Hodge and S. M. Williams in 1827 and 1828."
p. 137
"Alexander Hodge was born in Pennsylvania in 1760 and died in Texas in 1836. He was one of Marion's men in the American Revolution. He came to Austin's second Colony and his league was on the Austin reservation. In 1850 his sons and grandsons were living on it."
p. 165
The 1850 & 1860 censuses show the Archie Hodge plantations valued at $13,000 and $25,000 respectively.