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1838 Republic of Texas Washington County Document

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1838 Republic of Texas Washington County Document
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Washington County Texas Court summons for Joseph Bell Chance and Alexander Carmack, to answer petition of Edward Bailey, Thomas Gay, and Asa Hozey. All three partners in early Washington County mercantile business as Bailey, Gay & Hoxey. Dated August 21, 1838. Frame measures 14.75" x 16". All names mentioned prominent figures during The Republic of Texas. Joseph B. Chance was a surveyor and soldier in the war for Texas independence. In July 1838, a month before this summons, as Deputy Surveyor in Robertson County, Chance advertised plans "to run two or three compasses during the season...for gentlemen wishing to select lands in those parts." Chance surveyed 67,000 acres of land in parts of the present Bosque, Hill, McLennan, and Robertson counties. Edward Bailey and Thomas Gay were members of the Committee of San Felipe de Austin, Thomas Gay was killed in 1839 serving as a Texas Ranger at location where community was later developed as "Gay Hill"; As a Hoxey signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence.