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Richard W. Ballentine: Alamo Defender and Scottish Immigrant (1814–1836)

By: Bill Groneman

Published: November 1, 1994

Richard W. Ballentine, Alamo defender, was born in Scotland in 1814. He traveled to Texas from Alabama aboard the Santiago and disembarked on December 9, 1835. He and the other passengers signed a statement declaring, "we have left every endearment at our respective places of abode in the United States of America, to maintain and defend our brethren, at the peril of our lives, liberties and fortunes." Ballentine died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.

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Daughters of the American Revolution, The Alamo Heroes and Their Revolutionary Ancestors (San Antonio, 1976). Bill Groneman, Alamo Defenders (Austin: Eakin, 1990). John H. Jenkins, ed., The Papers of the Texas Revolution, 1835–1836 (10 vols., Austin: Presidial Press, 1973).

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Bill Groneman, “Ballentine, Richard W.,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed April 11, 2026, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ballentine-richard-w.

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November 1, 1994