SAMUEL HOUSTON Autograph Document Signed Sam Houston thrice

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SAMUEL HOUSTON. Autograph Document Signed, "Sam Houston," thrice (one in third person within the text, another on address leaf), granting power of attorney to Auguste Pierre Chouteau for the purpose of transferring to two members of the Osage Nation title to his property on the Grand River [OK]. Endorsement by a Justice of the Peace at lower edge of verso. 1 1/2 pages, 4to; address leaf detached, remnants of prior mounting along right edge verso, complete separations at horizontal folds repaired with tissue, faint scattered uneven toning. Washington, 1 May 1834

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". . . I Sam Houston . . . do hereby authorize Colonel August[e] P. Chouteau of the Grand Saline as my true and lawful attorney and do . . . appoint him to make a conveyance of all my right, title, claim, interest, and demand, in and to two reservations of land, being and laying on the Grand River within . . . the Cherokee Nation, which reservations were made by the Treaty of 1825 between the Osage Nation and the Commissioner of the U. States; to Anthony and Shimahurga, two Osages. . . ."