HOUSTON, SAM, President of Texas. Engraved document signed ("Sam Houston") as President of Texas, countersigned by Thomas William Ward of the Texas Land Office, Austin, 5 February 1842. 1 page, oblong folio, 318 x 378mm. (12 5/8 x 14 7/8in.), accomplished in manuscript, PRINTED ON PARCHMENT, attractively engraved within a border, boldly headed "In the Name of the Republic of Texas," circular great seal of the Republic at lower left. Sam Houston grants, "in accordance with the statutes of said Republic," a tract of one third of a league in the county of Gonzales, to one Gonsalves H.G. Woods; boldly signed with typical large paraph at bottom.

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HOUSTON, SAM, President of Texas. Engraved document signed ("Sam Houston") as President of Texas, countersigned by Thomas William Ward of the Texas Land Office, Austin, 5 February 1842. 1 page, oblong folio, 318 x 378mm. (12 5/8 x 14 7/8in.), accomplished in manuscript, PRINTED ON PARCHMENT, attractively engraved within a border, boldly headed "In the Name of the Republic of Texas," circular great seal of the Republic at lower left. Sam Houston grants, "in accordance with the statutes of said Republic," a tract of one third of a league in the county of Gonzales, to one Gonsalves H.G. Woods; boldly signed with typical large paraph at bottom.