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Woodruff Wilford; Snow Lorenzo; Smith John Henry; Grant Heber; Teasdale George; et alABAA

Texas. De Zavala LorenzoABAA

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

1830636New 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 Nacogdoches 3743163 acres. The company a real-estate promotion firm with agents land counselors surveyors and salesmen did not own land itself but sold scrip that allowed the settlers simply to move into the area allotted to the three empresarios. There the settlers had to complete all requirements of the Mexican colonization law before they could obtain title to land" - Texas State Handbook Online. "The certificate lists by date the four grants there were two grants to Vehlein to the three empresarios and gives the boundaries of the resulting tract. At the end is a provision that the location of the land is to be under the supervision of the agent 'residing on the land' of the Trustees who on surrender of the scrip reports to the Commissioner appointed by the Government who issues titles 'Subject to the payments required by the Laws of the State'" - Streeter. An excellent association copy of this early Texas land promotion document. Streeter Sale 304. Streeter Texas 1117. unknown books

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