Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company. Scrip No. 795 for one Sitio. / Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company ; (Dey, Anthony) / 1830

Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company. Scrip No. 795 for one Sitio. Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company ; (Dey, Anthony), 1830

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Full Title: Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company. Scrip No. 795 for one Sitio, containing 4428 402/1000 Acres. ... New York, 16th October 1830.

Author: Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company ; (Dey, Anthony)

Date: 1830

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Author: Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company ; (Dey, Anthony)

Date: 1830

Short Title: Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company. Scrip No. 795 for one Sitio.

Publisher: New York: E.S. Mesier Lith.

Type: Ephemera

Object Height cm: 32

Object Width cm: 20

Note: Sitio sold to Rodman Moulton. Accompanying map at the bottom of the deed uncolored.

Reference: Streeter Texas 1117.

State / Province: Texas

Subject: Deed/Survey

Full Title: Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company. Scrip No. 795 for one Sitio, containing 4428 402/1000 Acres. ... New York, 16th October 1830.

List No: 5177.002

Series No: 2

Published In: (Two land scrips authorizing the holder to settle certain amounts of land on the Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company's holdings in Texas with a signed portrait of Anthony Dey, one of the principals of the Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company).

Publication Author: Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company ; (Dey, Anthony)

Publication Date: 1830

Publication Reference: Streeter Texas 1117.

Publication Note: These land scrips and portrait of Anthony Dey were found with his personal papers, including Dey's copy of the Tanner 1826 Map of Mexico (see our #5176). The scrips have on them an impressive little map of southeastern Texas that shows the Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company's holdings, lithographed by the same E.S. Mesier that produced the rare and significant Map of the Southern Part of Texas of 1833 (Streeter Texas 1137).

Publication List No: 5177.000

Publication Type: Ephemera

Publication Maps: 2

Publication Height cm: 32

Publication Width cm: 20

Image No: 5177002

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