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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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Near Mint Condition, one page, 8" x 12.75", New York, October 16, 1830. Certificate number 798 certifying "...That the Subscribers as the Trustees and Attorneys of Lorenzo de Zavala, Joseph Vehlein, and David G. Burnet, have given and do hereby give to Rodman Moulton...One Sitio of Land within the limits of four adjoining tracts of Land in Texas heretofore severally granted to the said Lorenzo De Zavala on the 12th of March 1829, Joseph Vehlein on the 21st December 1826, and 17th 1828, and David G. Burnet on the 22th of December 1826 as Empresarios for Colonizing the same according to the terms of the said grants, and the Laws of the United States of Mexico and the State of Coahuila and Texas." At the end of the document are signatures of the three "Trustees & Attorneys," Anthony Dey, William H. Sumner, George W. Curtis, and Secretary W. H. Willson, with signature on verso of "Rodman Moulton". With a borderless map of eastern Texas along the lower margin containing shaded areas of the company's landholdings. Smoothed folds, chipped edges which are lightly toned in places.
The Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company was comprised of a group of northeastern speculators who purchased the colonization contracts in eastern Texas from empresarios Burnet, de Zavala, and Vehlein.
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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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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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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…
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