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[TEXAS]. GALVESTON BAY & TEXAS LAND COMPANY. Two engraved documents signed by Lorenzo de Zavala (on versos), as "Empresario" of the Galveston Bay & Texas Land Co., and (on recto) by three legal representatives of the Company (George Curtis, O.H. Sumner and Amos Bell?), imprint of "F.S. Mercier's Lith." at bottom edge each document INCORPORATING A DETAILED MAP OF A PORTION OF TEXAS, each scrip issued in New York, 16 October 1830. Each 1 page, folio, 307 x 202 mm. (12 1/8 x 6 in.), bold engraved heading "Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company," with small engraved vignette and scrip numeration in narrow decorated box at left-hand margin, each certificate accomplished in mansucript and numbered 11501 and 11496, edges untrimmed. Very rare.
TEXAS LAND SCRIP FOR THE DE ZAVALA, VEHLEIN AND BURNET GRANTS
A striking pair of elaborately engraved land scrips, issued under grants from "the United States of Mexico, and the State of Coahilo and Texas." The lands offered to potential colonists comprised four large tracts situated between the Sabine River and San Jacinto Rivers, from the Gulf of Mexico north to about 32.5' latitude, incorporating Galveston Bay and Sabine Lake. The geographical boundaries of the grants, made to Lorenzo de Zavala (1829), Joseph Vehlein (1826 and 1828) and David G. Burnet (1826) "as Empresarios for colonizing the same" are detailed in the text. A potential settler who purchased this scrip could "upon the surrender of this scrip...have his land surveyed and receive his title thereto..." Each certificate was for One "Labor" of land, defined as 177 and .136/1000 acres. De Zavala, as designated agent for the grantees, endorsed each certificate on the verso.
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TEXAS LAND SCRIP FOR THE DE ZAVALA, VEHLEIN AND BURNET GRANTS
A striking pair of elaborately engraved land scrips, issued under grants from "the United States of Mexico, and the State of Coahilo and Texas." The lands offered to potential colonists comprised four large tracts situated between the Sabine River and San Jacinto Rivers, from the Gulf of Mexico north to about 32.5' latitude, incorporating Galveston Bay and Sabine Lake. The geographical boundaries of the grants, made to Lorenzo de Zavala (1829), Joseph Vehlein (1826 and 1828) and David G. Burnet (1826) "as Empresarios for colonizing the same" are detailed in the text. A potential settler who purchased this scrip could "upon the surrender of this scrip...have his land surveyed and receive his title thereto..." Each certificate was for One "Labor" of land, defined as 177 and .136/1000 acres. De Zavala, as designated agent for the grantees, endorsed each certificate on the verso.
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