sentences:  323,800 hectares, or 3,200 km2) in Mora Valley to various families willing to relocate; estimates vary from 25 to 76 families.When the Republic of Texas seceded from Mexico on March 2, 1836, it claimed but did not actually control eastern New Mexico, including what is now Mora County.The town of Mora was raided unsuccessfully in 1843 by a group of freebooters from the more narrowly defined Republic of Texas, on the pretext of stopping cattle rustling but with a clear intent of horse theft and taking the local women and children as slaves).