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1838 Republic of Texas Document-Notable Texians

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Documents Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 800.00 USD
1838 Republic of Texas Document-Notable Texians
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Richmond, Fort Bend County, Republic of Texas, Dated July 25, 1838. A Title Bill-Of-Sale signed by several notable Texian figures, of "Lot Number Five (5) in Block One Hundred and Twenty Nine (129)." for the sum of One Dollar. After evacuation during the 1836 "Runaway Scrape"; On the west bank of the Brazos in early 1837, the town of Richmond was established by business partners Robert Eden Handy and William Lusk. Document signed on bottom by both Handy and Lusk. Also signed on reverse, by Clement C. Dyer and John Hunter Herndon. Dyer served as a spy during the War of 1812, was member of Austin's Old Three Hundred, as Texas became Republic and later statehood, serving as Fort Bend and Harris County Justice of the Peace. Herndon married Barbara Mackall Wilkinson Calvit in 1839, the only daughter of Alexander Calvit and heir to the Calvit sugar plantation in Brazoria County. Eventually becoming notorious as one of the richest men in the state, a member of the 1842 Somervell Expedition, turned back at the Rio Grande and escaped the Black Bean Episode. Document measures 8" x 12.25"