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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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Galveston Island Lot Records
In 1837, the western half of Galveston Island was not part of the City of Galveston. This land was surveyed and divided into lots by the Republic in an attempt to raise revenue. The lots were sold at auction through the Treasury. The Galveston Island Lot Records include certificates of purchase from the Republic of Texas Treasury, a register of buyers with a surname index, and a surname index to patents issued.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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Land Board Money Letters
The Land Board Money Letters can be either applications to purchase school land submitted by land agents on behalf of individuals or payments sent by land agents on behalf of clients.Categories
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Land Law Reference Books
Three volumes of legislative reference material used by the Legal Examiner of the General Land Office.Categories
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Land Office Commonplace Book
This commonplace book centers on a theme of veterans and land grant information. The book contains sections organized by military unit or battle. There are transcriptions of legislation relating to land, the legislative history of Texas counties and a section listing the fees of the General Land Office. It may have been used by Texas Ranger Captain James E. Lucy to investigate land-title fraud in Texas during the 1870s.Categories
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Land Revaluations Records
On two separate occasions the Texas Legislature gave relief to some land owners affected by drought conditions. The Revaluation Acts of 1925 and 1937 had the affect of renegotiating the terms of sale for lands that were worth significantly less then originally sold for because of drought conditions. of the 1930s. The revaluations entries list county, section, acreage, classification, previous sale price, and new valuation price.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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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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Special Act Certificates
Special Acts are legislation approved by the Texas Legislature granting land to individuals or their heirs. The records include handwritten copies of the Acts and an index. However, neither the records nor the index are comprehensive.Categories
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Texas General Land Office Vertical Files
The Vertical Files are an artificial collection of newspaper articles, research articles, historical articles, ephemera, etc., documenting the functions and the records of the General Land Office throughout Texas history organized alphabetically by subject.Categories
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- Admininstrative Papers
- Maps and Sketches
- VLB
- Titles/Deeds/Patents
- City Lots
- School
- Reports/Index
- Ledgers
- Land Grant Programs
- Surveyor Related
- County Related
- Spanish Collection
- Veterans
- Confederate Collections
- Railroad
- Defunct Agencies
- Manuscript Collections
- German-related
- Mineral Related
- Legal Documents
- Scrap
- Colony Records
- Contracts
- Correspondence