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Petition No. 110
Honorable Special Commissioner of the Enterprise of David Burnet:
I, Reuben Brown, a native of the United States of the North, with due respect appear before you and say: That, attracted by the generous provisions of the colonization laws of this State, I have come with my family, consisting of two persons, to settle in it if you should see fit in view of the attached certificate to admit me as a colonist in the said Enterprise, conceding to me the quantity of land which corresponds to me in the vacant tracts of the same. Therefore, I ask that you do as I request, wherein I shall receive favor and justice, I being a farmer and stock-raiser. Nacogdoches, March 20, 1835.
(Cross of Reuben Brown)
Order:
Let the interested party proceed with the accompanying certificate to the corresponding Honorable Empresario in order that he may report on the foregoing petition. Nacogdoches, March 20, 1835.
Jorge Ant. Nixon Commissioner
Report: Honorable Commissioner: I
certify that the interested party is one of the colonists introduced by my principal in
fulfillment of the contract he made with the Supreme Government of the State on December
22, 1826. Therefore, you may issue the order of survey of the tract he solicits. Nacogdoches,
Marsh 20, 1835. A. Hotchkiss, atty. of David Burnet Decree: Nacogdoches,
May 20, 1835. Having
been presented and admitted with the accompanying documents, the surveyor, Citizen Arthur
Henrie, shall have the survey made of the league of land the interested party may designate,
provided it be entirely vacant, and he shall examine the notes, which are to be translated
in this office, and proceedings shall follow as may be most suitable. Thus I decided and
signed with two witnesses according to law. Jorge Ant. Nixon, Commissioner Assiting Witness Thomas J. Rusk and
J. Roberts Field Notes: Honorable
Commissioner: The
tract surveyed for colonist Reuben Brown is situated on Box Creek, which flows into the
Trinity River, where the 1st landmark was raised, formed by a mound of earth around a stake,
from which a black oak 30 inches in diameter bears north 74 degrees west 5 varas distant
and a hickory 7 inches in diameter bears south 10 degrees east 1 4/10 varas distant.
Thence south 65 degrees west surveyed 5,500 varas and raised the 2nd landmark, from which
a blackjack 3 inches in diameter bears north 40 degrees east 3 6/10 varas distant and
another blackjack 4 inches in diameter bears south 57 degrees east 3 varas distant. Thence
south 25 degrees east surveyed 4,545 4/10 varas and raised the 3rd landmark, from which a
pine 36 inches in diameter bears north 78 degrees west 12 4/10 varas distant and a post
oak 20 inches in diameter bears north 60 degrees east 4 6/10 varas distant. Thence south
65 degrees east surveyed 5,500 varas and raised the 4th and last landmark, from which a
post oak 22 inches in diameter bears south 80 degrees east 6 2/10 varas distant. Thence
north 25 degrees west surveyed 4,545 4/10 varas to the 1st landmark, thus completing the
survey of the league of land you ordered me to have surveyed. Of said tract 6 labors belong
to the class of arable land and the remaining 19 to that of pasture land, its configuration
being that which in duplicate I send you herewith. Nacogdoches, May 20, 1835. Arthur Henrie, Surveyer Decree: Nacogdoches, May
20, 1835 The
survey of the league of land of colonist Reuben Brown having been concluded, let the
corresponding title be issued; and of the two plats presented by the surveyor let one be
added to this file and the other to the testimonio, both being signed by me with my rubric.
Thus I decided and signed with two witnesses according to law. Jorge Ant. Nixon, Commissioner Assiting Witness Thomas J. Rusk and
J. Roberts Title of Possession: Citizen
Jorge Antonio Nixon, special commissioner of the Supreme Government of the State of Coahuila and
Texas for the distribution and possession of land and the issuance of titles to the colonists
in the enterprise of Citizen David G. Burnet: Whereas
Reuben Brown has been admitted as a colonist in the colonization enterprise contracted by
empresario David G. Burnet with the Supreme Government of the State on December 22, 1826,
and the said Reuben Brown having fully established that he is married and that his family
consists of two persons and finding in him the requisites prescribed by the Colonization
Law of March 24, 1825; in conformity with the aforesaid law and the instructions that govern
me, in the name of the State I concede to, confer upon, and put the said Reuben Brown in
real and personal possession of one league of land situated on Box Creek, the boundaries
of which are delineated on the plat and in the field notes set down by surveyor Citizen
Arthur Henrie, as is seen in this file of documents. Of the said tract six labors belong to
the class of arable land and the remaining remaining 19 to that of pasture land, which
serves as classification for what he shall pay the State according to Article 22 of said law,
conceding to him the terms it designates under the penalties therein established, he
being notified that within one year he shall construct fixed and permanent landmarks at
each corner of the tract; that he shall settle and cultivate it in conformity with the
said law, complying scrupulously with what is ordered therein and elsewhere, and that he
shall never convey it in mortmain. Therefore,
exercising the authority vested in me by the same law and the consequent instructions, I
issue the present title and order a testimonio made of it and delivered to the interested
party in order that he may possess and enjoy the tract, he, his children, heirs and
successors, or whoever from him or from them shall have cause or right. Given in the Town
of Nacogdoches on the 20th day of May 1835, which I sign with two assisting witnesses
according to law. Jorge Ant. Nixon, Commissioner Assiting Witness Thomas J. Rusk and
J. Roberts