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Acquittance and Excess Acreage Registers
The Deed of Acquittance Register is an index of those land owners who have been granted a Deed of Acquittance for excess acreage by the General Land Office. This volume is the only extant register and covers 1960-1983. The Excess Acreage Log records where and how much land is in excess, 1965-1999.Categories
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Fisher-Miller Colony Records
Henry Fisher and Burchard Miller received a colonization contract to introduce colonists from Germany to Texas 1842-1855. The Fisher-Miller Colony Records contain original documents and original (handwritten) copies of documents associated with the creation and distribution of German emigrant land contracts from Henry Fisher and Burchard Miller to the Society to Protect German Immigrants in Texas (Later incorporated as the German Emigration and Railroad Company).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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Royalty Awards
This brief volume lists the recipients of royalty payments from the State of Texas, 1940-1983.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