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

Sale 2505 - Lot 197

Price Realized: $ 938

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

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

SIGNED BY ZAVALA (TEXAS.) Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company. Scrip issued to Texan independence figure Lorenzo de Zavala for 177 acres. Illustrated with an engraved detail map of eastern Texas in lower left corner. Partly printed document, 12 1/2 x 8 inches, signed on recto by trustees Anthony Dey, William H. Sumner and George W. Curtis, and Secretary W.H. Willson, and on verso by Lorenzo de Zavala; faint trace of mount on top edge, bottom edge untrimmed, condition generally excellent. Certificate #11500. New York, 16 October 1830

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This Mexican company sold land grants in eastern Texas in compliance with a Mexican law restricting Anglo-American settlement. The recipient of this parcel was Lorenzo de Zavala (1788-1836), who was also one of the three proprietors of this grant along with future Texan president David Burnet. Zavala was a Mexican physician who would become a key figure in the Texan movement for independence. He signs this document on verso. "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.