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Jack Giberson Records
Jack Giberson (1919-2007), worked for the General Land Office for 41 years. During his career he served as Chief Clerk and First Deputy Land Commissioner. The Jack Giberson Papers include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, legal documents, legislation, administrative documents, maps, surveys, field notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, reports, and notes collected and created by Giberson during his employment at the Land Office.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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Letters of Inquiry Relative to Alleged Vacancies
Letters of Inquiry are correspondence sent by individuals to the Survey Department of the General Land Office to ascertain the presence of unsurveyed public school land also known as a vacancy. The Letters of Inquiry include 7 file cabinet drawers of correspondence and maps, 1919-1930. Each letter contains at least one vacancy inquiry, though many have multiple pages of inquiries. As one of the more esoteric and complicated groups of records, the Letters are only available through appointment in the Research Room. Notice will give staff the time to consult with the Surveying Department to better serve the researcher.Categories
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Maddox Family Papers
The Maddox brothers--John. W. Maddox (1846-1935), and his brother Frank M. Maddox (1851-1921)--began working as surveyors in the panhandle in the early 1870s. Through the 1890s an important business focus of the Maddox Brothers was land speculation and real estate development, in addition to their regular work as surveyors.The Maddox Family Papers consists of maps, correspondence, and typescript materials dating from 1850 to approximately 1941. The bulk of the materials is made up of maps and sketches which were gathered or produced in relation to the surveying and real estate interests of John W. Maddox and his brother Frank M. Maddox. Additional correspondence and other materials are also present which relate to personal and some business matters of the Maddox family.
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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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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
Twichell Survey Records
In attempts to verify and prove land ownership and boundaries, Humble Oil acquired surveying records related to lands primarily in West Texas. The Twichell Survey Records Committee was created to manage the Twichell Records, and all surveying records held by Humble and the Committee became known as the Twichell Survey Records.The Twichell Survey Records Committee was created in 1959 by a legal agreement between six oil companies for the purpose of managing the Twichell Survey Records. Surveying sketches, cadastral maps, town and neighborhood plats, field books, field notes, correspondence, and photographic materials comprise the Twichell Survey Records, 1832-1984.