Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company

Title:

Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company

Creator:

Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company. this certifies that the subscribers as the trustees and attorneys of Lorenzo de Zavala, Joseph Vehlein and David G. Burnet, have given and do hereby give to Anthony Dey and his legal representatives the bearer hereof, their consent to the location of, and holding in severalty, one labor of land within the limits of four adjoining tracts of land in Texas ... No. 5549, 177 136/1000 acres

Abstract:

The Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, the first of its type in the United States, was founded in New York in 1830s by empresarios Joseph Vehlein, David G. Burnet, and Lorenzo de Zavala, who had received grants for land east of the San Jacinto River and north of Nacogdoches from the Mexican government. The company owned no land, but rather sold scrip, which was a permit to settle. To obtain title to the land, the settlers would have to meet the requirements of Mexican colonization law. This scrip No. 5549 was in the name of Anthony Dey, one of the company’s officials. Scrips were offered in two options, for either one labor (just over 177 acres) or one sitio (about 4428 acres); this document is an example of the former. However, just before the company began issuing scrip, the Mexican government had forbidden any further immigration to Texas from the United States. The inset map shows the Vehlein-Burnet-de Zavala empresario grants, located immediately to the east of Austin’s Colony between the San Jacinto and Sabine Rivers.

Issued:

1830

Subject:

Texas--History to 1846., Real Property--Texas, East--History--19th Century, Land companies--Texas, East--History--19th Century, and Land Grants--Texas, East--History--19th Century

Rights:

A copyright review process in April 2022 has determined that this particular item is in the public domain. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Spatial:

Texas, East and Texas

Attribution:

Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company. this certifies that the subscribers as the trustees and attorneys of Lorenzo de Zavala, Joseph Vehlein and David G. Burnet, have given and do hereby give to Anthony Dey and his legal representatives the bearer hereof, their consent to the location of, and holding in severalty, one labor of land within the limits of four adjoining tracts of land in Texas ... No. 5549, 177 136/1000 acres, Dey, Anthony, Zavala, Lorezno de, 1788-1836, Sumner, William H. (William Hyslop), 1780-1861, Curtis, George, 1799-1884, Vehlein, Joseph, Burnet, David, G. (David Gouverneur), 1877-1870, and A copyright review process in April 2022 has determined that this particular item is in the public domain. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Description:

Held in the Floyd and Louise Chapman Texas and Borderlands Collection at Cushing Memorial Library and Archives on the campus of Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas.

Exhibit Tags:

Immigration and Land Grants

Call Number:

F389 .G33 1830

Contributor:

Zavala, Lorezno de, 1788-1836, Sumner, William H. (William Hyslop), 1780-1861, Dey, Anthony, Curtis, George, 1799-1884, Vehlein, Joseph, and Burnet, David, G. (David Gouverneur), 1877-1870

Language:

eng