Partly-printed DS, one page, 8 x 12.5, New York, October 16, 1830. Land grant states, in part “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 Chas. De Forest….their consent to the location of and holding in severalty, One Labor of Land.” Certificate is signed at the conclusion by two trustees, Dey and Sumner, and countersigned by secretary W. H. Wilson. Printed in the lower left of the document is a map which shows the area to the three empressarios and the adjoining Austin colony. In very good to fine condition, with horizontal folds, some scattered mild toning, some light ink erosion to one signature, a few stray ink marks, and a thin strip of old tape along the lightly trimmed top edge.
The Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company, was founded in New York in 1829, and its purpose was to promote the colonization of lands from the Vehlein-Burnet-de Zavala empresario grants, located immediately to the east of the Austin Colony between the San Jacinto and Sabine Rivers. The company sold scrip which allowed the buyers to locate on one labor (just over 177 acres) or one sitio (about 4428 acres). The price was five cents an acre, and sales were brisk. However, these sales were of dubious worth and likely were outright fraudulent. One of the earliest obtainable Texas cartographic items. The Robert Davis Collection, read more about Robert Davis. RR Auction COA.
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