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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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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.
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Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company Records
The Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company was formed in 1830 by combining the contracts of David Burnet (1788-1870), Lorenzo de Zavala (1789-1836), and Joseph Vehlein after the three empresarios had encountered difficulties in starting their colonies. The records of the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company consist of 39.1 linear feet of land titles, memoranda, and character certificates dated from 1834-1835.Categories
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Houston County Field Notes Volume
The Volume is a handwritten copy of the field notes for Mexican land titles and 1st (and some 2nd) class headright certificates issued for Houston County.Categories
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McMullen & McGloin's Colony Records
John McMullen and James McGloin received a contract from Coahuila y Texas in 1828 under the state colonization laws to settle 200 Irish families in an area located between the Nueces and Medina rivers. The records of McMullen and McGloin's Colony consist of land titles and one plat map relating to the distribution of land in the colony.Categories
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Milam's Colony Records
In 1826, Benjamin Rush Milam received an empresario contract to settle 300 families between the Guadalupe and Colorado Rivers north of the San Antonio Road. Talbot Chambers was appointed land commissioner and issued fifty-three land titles to settlers in Milam's Colony in 1835. The records of Milam's Colony includes land titles, testimonios, unfinished titles, blank titles, correspondence, and plat maps.Categories
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Peters Colony Records
Peters Colony (also “Peters’ Colony”) was formed as a result of a contract (which was authorized by the Texas Congress on January 4, 1841) between William S. Peters and his associates, a group of English and American men, and the President of Texas, Mirabeau Lamar. It began on August 30, 1841. Three other contracts modifying the original would be signed followed by numerous legal battles, some remedied through the Texas Legislature. In the end, the colony created little to no income for its investors. It did, however, bring 2,205 families to Texas, distributing to them 879,920 acres of land.The records relating to Peter's Colony on file with the GLO mostly concern the portions of land that were given to the Texas Emigration and Land Company (TELC) in the early 1852. The bulk consists of field notes and affidavits from surveyors attesting to various boundaries of land within the Colony.
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Power and Hewetson's Colony Records
Power and Hewetson's Colony, also known as the Refugio Colony, was founded in 1828 by James Power and James Hewetson by virtue of an empresario contract with the state of Coahuila and Texas under the provisions of the Colonization Law of 1825. Power and Hewetson's Colony Records contain contract records, correspondence, land titles, survey field notes, and survey plat maps.Categories
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Robertson's Colony Records
Robertson's Colony is the eventual name of the colony located north of Austin's Colony. It was at first the Leftwich Grant, secured by Robert Leftwich and later owned by the Texas Association, aka the Nashville Company. Later an empresario contract for the area was secured by Sterling Robertson, which was then voided and became the Austin and Williams contract, aka the Upper Colony. Reversed later back to Robertson's control, colonists did eventual settle the area though there were many legal battles.The General Land Office has but a portion of the Robertson Colony Records (see Related Materials). The Records include contract records, correspondence, land titles, a register of surveys, a register of families, and a list and volume of transcription of the titles.