1835 Woodman Map of the Colonization Grants to Zavala, Vehlein & Burnet in Texas
1835 Woodman Map of the Colonization Grants to Zavala, Vehlein & Burnet in Texas
This map was issued in the book “Immigrants Guide to Texas” prior to Texas independence. It was designed to encourage land purchases through the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company. The company was founded in New York on October 16, 1830, for the purpose of colonizing the lands assigned to the empresarios Joseph Vehlein, David G. Burnet and Lorenzo de Zavala. The colonization contracts covered an area in East Texas lying east of the San Jacinto River and south of a line running twenty leagues north of Nacogdoches.
(3,743,163 acres)
The company, a real-estate promotion firm with agents, land counselors, surveyors, and salesmen, did not own land itself but sold scrip that allowed the settlers simply to move into the area allotted to the three empresarios. There the settlers had to complete all requirements of the Mexican colonization law before they could obtain title to land.
Dimensions: 14.75 x 12
GLO#93851
