Manuscript DS, one lightly lined page both sides, 8 x 12.5, May 11, 1855. A legal document filed by Houston requesting that the court in Nacogdoches County order a new survey of his land, on which he had originally settled in 1835. The text outlines Houston’s claim that the previous survey was based on inaccurate documents from the Land Office. Ironically enough, the defendant, land commissioner James H. Starr, was Houston’s own appointee during his term as President of Texas. Green (1814–1864), who was to become a highly regarded brigadier general in the Confederate Army, was killed at the Battle of Pleasant Hill during the Red River campaign. In the same year, Houston was censured by the Texas legislature for his anti-slavery stance as it related to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Accompanied by a related one-page document dismissing Houston’s case and ordering him to pay court costs, signed by Green as clerk. In fine, clean condition, with tiny edge separations and uneven left margin to Green document, affecting no text. JSA/John Reznikoff Auction LOA and RRAuction COA.
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