File:Colorado & Red River Land Co. 1835 UTA (stock certificate).jpg
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Texas. The Colorado and Red River Land Company [stock certificate] ( ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Colorado & Red River Land Company |
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Texas. The Colorado and Red River Land Company [stock certificate] |
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Colorado & Red River Land Company |
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C. C. Wright & Durand, New York City |
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Description |
English: The Colorado and Red River Land Company of New York and Texas issued this map and stock certificate relating to its vast lands in Texas. The company had tenuous claims to the lands through the Mexican government's grants to the English-born empresario Dr. John Charles Beales (1804-1878), whose signature appears on the stock certificate. The company's lands from Wilson & Exeter's Grant appear in pink at the upper left of the larger map. The numerous notations about the quality of the land derive from the 1827 survey by Alexander LeGrand, who was employed by Wilson and Exeter. Not surprisingly, the only comment about the Native Americans already there is in fine print ("Bought 191 B[uffalo] skins of the Comanches") and seems to imply they would also be friendly to settlers and land speculators (!). Also in pink in the center of this map are the company's lands from Milam's Grant between the Colorado and Guadalupe Rivers. Just west are lands acquired by Beales from the former empresario land grant of Lucius Woodbury and sold to the Rio Grand & Texas Land Company. Just south of these lands, between the Nueces and the Rio Grande, is Beale's [sic, Beales'] River Grant. This is outlined in pink along with the rest of the state of Coahuila. Along Las Moras Creek within Beales' River Grant is the town of Dolores, named for Beales' wife. |
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Date |
1835 date QS:P571,+1835-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | colored lithograph on paper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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height: 19 cm (7.4 in); width: 26 cm (10.2 in) dimensions QS:P2048,19U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,26U174728 |
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institution QS:P195,Q1230739 |
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Place of creation | New York City | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections, Gift of Virginia Garrett |
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Huseman, Ben W. (2010) Charting Chartered Companies as Mirrored in Maps, 1600-1900, Arlington: University of Texas at Arlington, no. 47, 48 , pp. 38–39 Ludecus, Edward (2008) John Charles Beales' Rio Grande Colony, Austin: Texas State Historical Association "Ed. and trans. by Louis E. Brister" Henderson, Mary Virginia (April, July 1928). "Minor Empresario Contracts for the Colonization of Texas, 1825–1834". Southwestern Historical Quarterly (31, 32). Estep, Raymond (Winter 1958–59). "The First Panhandle Land Grant". The Chronicles of Oklahoma (36). Estep, Raymond (October 1950). "The Military and Diplomatic Services of Alexander Le Grand for the Republic of Texas, 1836–1837". Southwestern Historical Quarterly (54). Raymond Estep (June 12, 2010). BEALES, JOHN CHARLES. Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved on September 11, 2019. Carl Coke Rister (June 12, 2010). BEALES'S RIO GRANDE COLONY. Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved on September 11, 2019. |
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