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

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(TEXAS.) Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company. Scrip issued to Joel Roberts Poinsett 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. 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. This caused some diplomatic difficulties, which the partners hurdled by granting a substantial number of tracts to the U.S. Minister to Mexico, Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779-1851)--who is perhaps best remembered today for introducing the Mexican plant now known as the poinsettia to the United States. This is one of Poinsett's personal grants. See M.S. Henson's Lorenzo de Zavala (Fort Worth, 1996), 51. Poinsett apparently never took possession of the tract granted to him in this document. "This certificate merely 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.