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Agents Reports
Similar to a clerk return, the Agent Reports document the legitimacy of those who had received a land grant certificate. The records are incomplete and document only 1838-1839 and it is believed that they were used to inform the clerk returns filed at the GLO.Categories
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Attorney General Opinions of Texas Public Lands
Attorney General Opinions contains official opinions of the Texas Attorney General on the interpretation of the law regarding public lands.Categories
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Austin City Lots and Outlots Records
The Records contain sales certificates and two bound volumes documenting the original sale of the lots and outlots of the City of Austin. The certificates have been digitized. See Related Materials.Categories
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Austin's Colony Records
Austin's Colony was the first and largest Anglo-American settlement in Mexican Texas and was established by Stephen F. Austin in 1821. The Records include contracts, land titles, surveyor's field notes, correspondence, registers, and plats of surveys created as a result of the process by which settlers were admitted to the colony and given title to land.Categories
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Boards of Land Commissioners Records
County boards of land commissioners kept a record of their proceedings as they went about their business of issuing headright certificates to eligible applicants. The Traveling Board was created in 1840 to audit the certificates issued by the County Boards of Land Commissioners with a focus on disqualifying certificates found to be fraudulent. The records documenting the work of the County Boards of Land Commissioners contains four document boxes and five published volumes.Categories
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Clerk Returns Collection
A clerk return is a document created by the appointed clerk for the county board of land commissioners that records information associated with the issuance of a land certificate. The Collection is primarily used to provide genealogists with the movements and acquaintances of their ancestors. Clerk returns contain the name of every person to whom a certificate shall be given, the amount of land granted to each person, the time of their emigration to the country, the name or names of the witness or witnesses by whom the claimants severally proved their claims.Categories
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Court of Claims Records
The Texas Court of Claims was an administrative body created to perform a thorough audit of certificates that had already been issued, as well as to review claims and issue original, duplicate, and unlocated balance certificates to those who provided substantial evidence. The Court of Claims Records contain reports and correspondence in 5 series: Court of Claims Files (1856-1861) , Court of Claims Reports (1856-1861), Unlocated Balance Certificates (January 1856 - July 1859), Commissioners of Claims Letters (1856-1861), Supporting Documents (1856-1861).Categories
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De Leon's Colony Records
De Leon's Colony was the only empresario colony in Texas that consisted mostly of Mexican families. The Colony was established in 1824 after Martín de Leon (1765-1833) petitioned the provincial deputation of Texas for permission to settle forty-one families from Tamaulipas on the lower "reaches" of the Guadalupe River.The De Leon Colony Records consist of legal documents and correspondence dated 1831-1835. Land titles in the colony and town tracts of Victoria make up the bulk of the records.
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DeWitt's Colony Records
DeWitt's Colony was founded by Green DeWitt (1787-1835) as a result of his empresario contract of April 15, 1825 to settle 400 families. The colony was located south of the San Antonio Road in the area between the Lavaca River and the divide of the Guadalupe River and the San Antonio River.The records of DeWitt’s Colony consist of 3 linear feet of contract records, correspondence, land titles, appointments, and survey field notes dated 1825-1834.