Download or read book Owners of Texas Peters Colony Lands written by Edwin Smith Graham and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information sent to owners of lands within Peters Colony, originally granted or awarded to persons by the Texas legislature in 1841 and further sold and settled by colonists, by E.S. Graham, real estate and land agent in Graham, Young County, Texas. Graham points out situations in which the presence of squatters and the absence of land owners leads to devaluation of lands within Peters Colony and prevents the sale of lands at a fair market value. His message is that he can be trusted to handle any promotion and sale of said lands at a fair and reasonable cost. He can also be trusted to handle management of said lands with regard to renters.
Download or read book To Owners of Peters Colony Or Texas Emigration Land Company Lands written by Edwin Smith Graham and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Peters Colony of Texas written by Seymour V. Connor and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Respectrully to the Owners of Texas Peters Colony Lands written by Edwin Smith Graham and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open letter from E.S. Graham, real estate agent in Graham, Tex., to owners of Peters Colony (Tex.) lands regarding the issue of whether freeholder/owners or lessee/stockmen are good (or bad) for the value of the lands in question. Graham is replying to Webb & Hill (realtors from Albany, Tex.) who used citations from Graham in letters to land owners of Peters Colony land defending the nomadic/lessee system of land use when Mr. Graham in reality felt this system harmed the value of the land.
Download or read book Kentucky Colonization in Texas written by Seymour V. Connor and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1983 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this publication, which is reprinted from "The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society," the author has furnished a history of the Peters Colony as well as a list of the colonists themselves, which comprises the final half of the book. In this list the genealogist is given full scope for his researches, as each of the 2,000 settlers is positively identified with regard to the following information: name, marital status, occupation, age, year of migration to Texas, county of settlement, state of birth, and state from which he migrated. Professor Connor extracted his information from original sources in the general land office, records of the Peters Colony, and the 1850 census of Texas.
Download or read book Texas this Year Has Been Blessed with Good Rains Especially So with the Section of Country in which the Peter s Colony Lands are Situated written by Louis Edward Brannin and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letter to owners of Peters' Colony land and patrons of the Agency stressing importance of establishing price and terms for parcels of land to facilitate sale of the land. This information enables agents to make quick and profitable sales when the buyers are just passing through the country as many were through Texas. Specific mention is made of E.S. Graham, land agent in Graham, Tex.; the Agency was not seeking to include lands handled by Mr. Graham.
Download or read book Report of the Commissioners to Investigate the Land Boards Within Peters Colony written by Texas. Legislature. Commissioners to Investigate the Land Boards within Peters' Colony and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorial of the Trustees of Peters Colony to the Hon the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Texas written by Texas Emigration and Land Company and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Act Relating to Lands in Peters Colony written by Texas and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Peters Colony of Texas written by Seymour V. Connor and published by Texas State Historical Assn. This book was released on 2005 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas State Historical Association is pleased to partner with the Collin County Historical Society to make Seymour V. Connor's The Peters Colony of Texas available once again. This classic work of Texas history, long out of print, was praised by John H. Jenkins in Basic Texas Books as "the best study of one of the largest land grants in Texas history." The TSHA first published The Peters Colony of Texas in 1959. The Peters Colony, totaling 16,000 square miles of North Texas, now includes twenty-six counties. Jenkins called it "a masterpiece of weaving together the threads of an extremely difficult historical puzzle with only the meagerest of source materials." For many years the book, with its documentation of early migration to Texas, was available to the public only in noncirculating library collections and an occasional appearance on the rare book market. The TSHA and the Collin County Historical Society are pleased to offer a paperback edition of The Peters Colony of Texas to bring this significant work of Texas history back to public attention.
Download or read book Castro s Colony written by Bobby D. Weaver and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1842, French banker Henri Castro secured a colonization grant and recruited more than two thousand Europeans to immigrate to Texas and populate his colony. The author describes the empresario system under which this community, now known as Castroville, was formed and considers the life of its founder.
Download or read book The Peters Colony in North Texas 1841 1854 written by Seymour V. Connor and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brief history of the Peters Colony in Texas written by Emily Fowler and published by . This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Texas Land Grants 1750 1900 written by John Martin Davis, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas land grants were one of the largest public land distributions in American history. Induced by titles and estates, Spanish adventurers ventured into the frontier, followed by traders and artisans. West Texas was described as "Great Space of Land Unknown" and Spanish sovereigns wanted to fill that void. Gaining independence from Spain, Mexico launched a land grant program with contractors who recruited emigrants. After the Texas Revolution in 1835, a system of Castilian edicts and English common law came into use. Lacking hard currency, land became the coin of the realm and the Republic gave generous grants to loyal first families and veterans. Through multiple homestead programs, more than 200 million acres had been deeded by the end of the 19th century. The author has relied on close examination of special acts, charters and litigation, including many previously overlooked documents.
Download or read book Report of the Commissioners to Investigate the Land Boards Within Peters Colony written by E. P. Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo definition and list of community land grants in New Mexico written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freedom Colonies written by Thad Sitton and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of independent African American settlements in Texas during the Jim Crow era, featuring historical and contemporary photographs. In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and many poor whites became trapped in the exploitative sharecropping system, these independence-seeking individuals settled on pockets of unclaimed land that had been deemed too poor for farming and turned them into successful family farms. In these self-sufficient rural communities, often known as “freedom colonies,” African Americans created a refuge from the discrimination and violence that routinely limited the opportunities of blacks in the Jim Crow South. Freedom Colonies is the first book to tell the story of these independent African American settlements. Thad Sitton and James Conrad focus on communities in Texas, where blacks achieved a higher percentage of land ownership than in any other state of the Deep South. The authors draw on a vast reservoir of ex-slave narratives, oral histories, written memoirs, and public records to describe how the freedom colonies formed and to recreate the lifeways of African Americans who made their living by farming or in skilled trades such as milling and blacksmithing. They also uncover the forces that led to the decline of the communities from the 1930s onward, including economic hard times and the greed of whites who found legal and illegal means of taking black-owned land. And they visit some of the remaining communities to discover how their independent way of life endures into the twenty-first century. “Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad have made an important contribution to African American and southern history with their study of communities fashioned by freedmen in the years after emancipation.” —Journal of American History “This study is a thoughtful and important addition to an understanding of rural Texas and the nature of black settlements.” —Journal of Southern History
