Meusebach - Selling Texas Lands to German Emigrants

Meusebach - Selling Texas Lands to German Emigrants

(Texas) Meusebach, John O. CERTIFICATE. THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF COMAL. BE IT KNOWN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT I, JOHN O. MEUSEBACH, COMMISSIONER, DULY APPOINTED AND QUALIFIED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF AN ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE.... New Braunfels. Feb. 28, 1855. 1 page, accomplished in manuscript, very light toning and in vg cond. 

 

According to the Handbook of Texas Online "In 1854 Meusebach received an appointment as commissioner from Governor Elisha M. Pease to issue land certificates to those immigrants of 1845 and 1846 who had been promised they by the Adelsverein." As a result of that promise these Certificates were issued granting that the German Emigration Company is entitled to "three hundred and twenty (completed in manuscript) acres of land, as a part of the premium lands secured to them by the laws of the Republic and State of Texas." "The Adelsverein, or Society for the Protection of German Emigrants to Texas, was organized in 1842 by a group of German noblemen for the purpose of acquiring land in Texas and encouraging German emigration. Beginning in 1844, the Adelsverein brought thousands of German emigrants to Texas, founding the town of New Braunfels and other towns in West Texas between Austin and San Antonio." More Germans then expected filed for land and thus there was not enough land to go around. John O. Meusebach was appointed to administrate the company.

$ 1,195.00
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