Birdy, Webber’s Prairie is west northwest of Bastrop.
Damn, I drove through there on purpose years ago, I coulda sworn I was going east on 290 and turned right, maybe I was heading west.
As I recall Webber was a guy from Connecticut who had got a slave woman pregnant. So his child could be born free Webber actually bought her and moved with her as his wife to Texas where such things were more tolerated.
IIRC Smithwick spoke highly of them and their charity, angrily railing against the arrival of “the better sort”, who moved in “when all danger had passed”, compelling the Webers to pull up stakes and move to Mexico.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
