[Manuscript Document Regarding Sale of Land East of Nacogdoches in Late 1835]

[Nacogdoches: September 21, 1835. About very good.. [3]pp., on a bifolium, plus docketing. Previously folded. Light wear and staining along old folds. Minor edge wear and slight loss at center fold point. Spanish secretarial script, but quite legible. “En la villa de Nacogdoches y a los veinte y un dias del mes de Septiembre del año de mil ochocientos treinta y cinco ante mi el ciudadano Luis Rueg, Juez de primera Ynstancia de ella dicha villa... companieron en este mi Jugada y por mi proprias personas los Ciudadanos William Clark, J.K. Allen, y W. Galagan, y el primero dixo... que olorga y da en venta real y publica por Jura de heredad para siempre a los segundos la mitad del ferrenoque se halla atuada al Norte del sitio de tierra... entre el Rio Sabinas y el Arroyo de Adams”

This deed, ink-stamped with the seal of the Free State of Coahuila and Tejas, documents the sale and transfer of land between William Clark as seller, and J. K. Allen and W. G. Logan as buyers. The sale and this document were accomplished just five months before Texas declared independence and became the Republic of Texas on March 2, 1836. The sale concerns “half of the land located north of the site of land granted between the Sabinas River and Adams Creek… for the price and amount of fifty pesos.”

Very interesting documentation of a land deal done during the last months of the Mexican Texas era.