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Rare Colonists Bond by TEXAS COLONIZATION - 1835

by TEXAS COLONIZATION

Rare Colonists Bond by TEXAS COLONIZATION - 1835

Rare Colonists Bond

by TEXAS COLONIZATION

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Mina, Republic of Texas: Abbeville, 1835. unbound. 2 pages (front and back), 12.5 x 7.75 inches, Mina, Republic of Texas, December 11, 1835 (just before the Texas revolution) -- an exceedingly rare Colonists Bond from the Nashville Colony to L. Kinney, guaranteeing his head right in the Nashville Colony to a half league, for surveying it. The colony, later called Robertson's Colony, originated in Nashville in 1825 when the group obtained a contract to settle 800 families in Texas. This important settlement was second in size only to Stephen A. Austin's grant. Some toning, foxing, and damp-staining at the margins; minor tearing along several folds. Good condition.<br/><br/> A fabulous and historically important memento from the earliest days in the founding of the Texas Republic.<br/><br/>
  • Bookseller Argosy Book Store US (US)
  • Format/Binding Unbound
  • Book Condition Used
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Publisher Abbeville
  • Place of Publication Mina, Republic of Texas
  • Date Published 1835
UNRECORDED 1875 TEXAS COLONIZATION BROADSIDE

UNRECORDED 1875 TEXAS COLONIZATION BROADSIDE

by Texas Land and Colonization Company

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WILLIAM ALLISON BOOKS
Houston, Texas, United States
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[Texas] Texas Land and Colonization Company. Read! Read! If you read this it will surely induce you to secure a home for nothing. Hundreds have already found pleasant and profitable homes within the Lone Star State, such as no other could give them. Oxford, Milam County, Texas follows the example set by old cities of the West nearly a century ago. … [Cincinnati, Ohio?]: Texas Land and Colonization Company. [1875] Broadside. A few fold splits, small hole, stains. Has been folded. Good.
OCLC shows no holdings for this item or this company. Milam County is in east central Texas and is bordered by Robertson, Burleson, Lee, Williamson, Bell, and Falls counties. Cameron, the county seat, is sixty miles northeast of Austin and 140 miles south of Dallas. Until the first railroad arrived in the 1870s, the county was without a cheap and reliable way to ship or receive products. The International and Great Northern Railroad was built from the Brazos River to Rockdale in 1874 and from Rockdale to Austin in… Read More
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