(MEXICO) Zavala Lorenzo de Group of 5 printed citizenship de

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(MEXICO.) Zavala, Lorenzo de. Group of 5 printed citizenship decrees issued as governor of the state of Mexico. Letterpress broadsides, each about 12 1/2 x 8 inches, signed in type by Zavala as governor (one with his manuscript paraph); folds, minor wear; uncut; each with modern ownership tag on verso. Tlalpam, 17 to 28 May 1828

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Zavala later became a founding father of the Republic of Texas, serving briefly as its vice president in 1836. All 5 of these decrees are grants of state citizenship to individual immigrants: Marco Bataní of Manila, the distinguished mining expert and botanist Cárlos Sartorius (1795-1872) of Germany, Gustavo Adolpho Stein and wife Maria of Germany, Santiago Smith Wilcoks (James Smith Wilcox) of the United States, and José Hernandez Chico. None of these are traced in OCLC.