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Texas.

Description: Map of Texas shows empresario land grants (shaded in color) and locations of American Indian settlements prior to the Texas Declaration of Independence. Bodies of water and geographic features are marked (with relief shown pictorially). Scale [ca. 1: 5,069,000]. Prime meridians: Washington and London.
Date: 1835
Creator: Bradford, T. G. (Thomas Gamaliel), 1802-1887
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: None
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Texas.

Description: Map of Texas shows empresario land grants (outlined in color) and locations of American Indian settlements prior to the Texas Declaration of Independence. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1: 5,069,000] (W 105⁰--W 94⁰/N 34⁰--N 26⁰) Prime meridians: Washington and London.
Date: 1835
Creator: Bradford, T. G. (Thomas Gamaliel), 1802-1887
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Harrison County.

Description: Map shows land tracts by number and some by owner, "Trammel's Trace," "Cherokee Trace," "Lilleys Line" between Texas and the United States, waterways including the Sabine River, "Lake Soda," ferries and river crossings; adjacent Red River, Shelby, and Nacogdoches counties. Scale not given.
Date: [1835..1935]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mexico, Guatemala and the West Indies.

Description: Map shows early nineteenth century boundaries of Mexico extending north along the Pacific coast. Mexican provinces and major towns are indicated. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:14,482,000].
Date: 1835
Creator: Bradford, T. G. (Thomas Gamaliel), 1802-1887
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Map of surveys] situated south of the Sabine River.

Description: Map shows tract numbers, volume of land per tract, Leons and Hogans bayous, roads, and landowners; large portions held by George Antonio Nixon and Haden Eduards; smaller portions held by M.A. Romero, E. Bradly, John Caughan, and I. Johnston [?]. Scale not given.
Date: 1835
Creator: Roark, William, 1803-1862
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Texas shewing [sic.] the grants in possession of the Colorado & Red River Land Compy.

Description: Map shows settlements, major roads, mining activity, former and contemporary land empresarios and companies and their boundaries; overlapping boundaries for Mexican states of Coahuila and Tamaulipas; adjacent Missouri Territory, Arkansas Territory, and Louisiana. Includes population statistics, acreage, and notes. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:2,740,000].
Date: 1835
Creator: Colorado and Red River Land Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Colorado and Red River Land Company [maps].

Description: Map shows overview of Colorado & Red River Land Company's holdings along the Red River in smaller map; boundaries for holdings, towns, roads, and rivers for holdings and adjacent land grants along Colorado River. Includes text with original signatures.
Date: 1835
Creator: Colorado and Red River Land Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

John Welch's Bond for Land

Description: Agreement to pay Michael Reed issued by John Welch with witnesses William C. Sparks and Jefferson Reed. Statement on verso of document recording the note's filing with the County of Milam.
Date: December 15, 1835
Creator: Welch, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Southwestern University

[Sarah Welch's bond]

Description: Agreement to pay Michael Reed and Z.N. Morrel, issued by Sarah Welch with witnesses William Whitely and Thomas Williams, in the amount of ten thousand dollars for a league of land in the Nashville Colony.
Date: January 15, 1835
Creator: Welch, Sarah
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Southwestern University

[Col. Nicholas Copeland letter to Martin Bridgman, April 25, 1835]

Description: 1835 letter of Col. Nicholas Copeland to his son-in-law Martin Bridgman of Arkansas, enticing him to move to Texas. The letter discusses the price of land and cattle, as well as the profitability of crops such as cotton and corn. Copeland adds a note for Harry Currin, a free African-American, stating that Texas is a safe place to settle. His land grant (settlement & fortification) described in the letter was 25 miles west of the Trinity River just before crossing the Navasota River. This le… more
Date: April 25, 1835
Creator: Copeland, Nicholas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Other
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