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New York, 1830. Very good.. Broadside form, approximately 12.5 x 8.25 inches. Formerly mounted, with some adhesive remnants at top edge. Light creasing at lower edge. Faint foxing. A subscription form for the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, which sought to attract colonists to land granted to Lorenzo de Zavala, Joseph Vehlein, and David G. Burnet in southeast Texas in the early 1830s. The present form is completed for one of the principal land owners in the scheme, Lorenzo de Zavala, and is signed by him on the verso. Zavala went on to play a major role in the Texas Revolution and became the first Vice President of the Republic of Texas. "The Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company was founded in New York on October 16, 1830, for the purpose of colonizing the lands assigned to the empresarios Joseph Vehlein, David G. Burnet, and Lorenzo de Zavala. The colonization contracts covered an area in East Texas lying east of the San Jacinto River and south of a line running twenty leagues north of…
Read More GALVESTON BAY & TEXAS LAND COMPANY, No. [in Manuscript: "10490"], 117 136/1000 Acres [drop-title]. At The End, Holograph Signatures Of Three Trustees, Dey, Sumner, And Curtis And The Secretary Of The Company W. H. Willson -
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GALVESTON BAY & TEXAS LAND COMPANY, No. [in manuscript: "10490"], 117 136/1000 Acres [drop-title]. At the end, holograph signatures of three trustees, Dey, Sumner, and Curtis and the secretary of the company W. H. Willson
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New York: The company, 1830. Engraved broadside form, 12 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches, printed on thin paper, wood engraved vignette as part of head, map lower left corner, 2 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches, picturing the Galveston Bay area of Texas along the Gulf Coast and inland, with shading indicating the locations of land under the control of the company. The document gives the holder (in this case "William G. Buckner," in manuscript) "the right to locate a certain area of land on the grants of the Galveston Bay Company and does not purport to give the holder any further interest" (Streeter Texas 1117). The grantee was given "One Labor" of land ("117 136/1000 English acres") within the described grants. Streeter sale 304: "An early Texas land promotion." Very good. Folded (several short tears along folds, remains of mounting tape upper edge verso). (10791).
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Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company. No. 11500 177 136/1000 Acres. This Certifies That the Subscribers as the Trustees and Attorneys of Lorenzo de Zavala, Joseph Vehlein, and David G. Burnet Have Given and Do Hereby Give... [caption title]
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