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Texas: Alamo

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Texas: Alamo

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Auction Date:2010 Sep 15 @ 22:00 (UTC-05:00 : 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
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]….” 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 Cotte," and "Jonathan Cottle" as "Assisting Witnesses." In very good condition, with missing lower half of second page, professional repair to partial horizontal separation of first page, and even overall toning and mottling. 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. Eight months before signing this page, Byrd Lockhart had joined the Gonzales Ranging Company of Mounted Volunteers, the day Mexican General Santa Anna and his army arrived at San Antonio. The Gonzales Ranging Company arrived at the Alamo on March 1, the eighth day of the battle. In all probability, Lockhart was with them, but was dispatched to purchase cattle and other supplies. Lockhart was still in Gonzalez, experiencing an unforeseen delay, when Santa Anna's troops stormed the Alamo. Interestingly, two other signers also played a role in the Texas Revolution. Ponton, was the military commandant whose actions in 1835 led to war’s first battle, the Battle of Gonzalez, while Cottle was part a group of 18 armed colonists who delayed Mexican forces at the Guadalupe River on in September 1835 while a sufficient force could be assembled in Gonzales. A unique piece of Texas history.
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