(TEXAS) Galveston Bay Texas Land Company Scrip issued to Ba

Sale 2241 - Lot 269

Price Realized: $ 570

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

(TEXAS.) Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company. Scrip issued to Barney Corse for 177 acres. Illustrated with an engraved detail map of eastern Texas in lower left corner. Partly printed document, 12.5 x 8 inches, signed by trustees Anthony Dey, William H. Sumner and George Curtis, and Secretary W.H. Willson; small trace of mount on top edge, bottom edge untrimmed, condition generally excellent. Certificate #788. New York, 16 October 1830

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This Mexican company sold land grants in eastern Texas in compliance with a Mexican law forbidding Anglo-American settlement. Barney Corse, the grantee, was a prominent New York abolitionist. "Gives the holder the right to locate a certain area of land on the grants of the Galveston Bay Company"--Streeter Texas 1117. See also Streeter sale I:304.