 The Texas Supreme Court declared judicial counties to be unconstitutional.In 1845, Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels secured title to of the Veramendi grant in the northern part of the former judicial county.Following the annexation of Texas by the United States (1845), the Prussian immigrant August Wilhelm Schumann arrived on the Texas coast aboard the
"SS Franziska" in 1846 and purchased in Guadalupe County.