Auction Date:2011 Nov 17 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Texas surveyer (1782–1839), Alamo defender, courier, and Texian officer during the Texas Revolution. Manuscript DS, signed “Byrd Lockhart,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 13, October 25, 1836. Document in which Byrd Lockhart "grants in real and public sale, and perpetual alienation by way of successive right forever, to the Citizen Charles Lockhart a resident of the Municipality of Gonzales, the undivided half of a league of and which was granted to the said Byrd Lockhart as one of the four leagues obtained by special grant from the Government of the State of Coahuila and Texas, and being the third League located of the above mentioned grant, and the said league is situated on the S.W. side of the Guadeloupe River, distant from the Town of Gonzales twenty two thousand two hundred and forty varas [about 11.7 miles]….It is the undivided half of the above described league of land that is hereby intended to be conveyed and the said Byrd Lockhart declares and assures that he has not heretofore sold or mortgaged said land…and as such he sells the half league of land to the said Charles Lockhart…for the sum of five hundred dollars.” Signed at the conclusion by Lockhart, and also signed "Andrew Ponton" as "First Judge and Notary Public," "John Fennel" and "Arthur Burns" as "Instrumental Witnesses," and "Almond Cottle," and "Jonathan Cottle" as "Assisting Witnesses." Missing lower half of second page, professional repair to partial horizontal separation of first page, and even overall toning and mottling, otherwise very good condition. All the writing and signatures remain quite bold and clear.
In 1835, brothers Byrd and Charles Lockhart surveyed and supervised building the road from San Antonio to Austin and south through Gonzales to Matagord. For payment, Byrd Lockhard was granted four leagues of land (18,576 acres) by the Mexican government, which via this document he later shared with his sibling. Byrd Lockhart was still in Gonzalez, experiencing an unforeseen delay, when Santa Anna's troops stormed the Alamo seven months before this document was signed. A unique piece of Texas history.
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