Certification of land sale from John Houlihan, on the McMullen and McGloin colony, to Allen Hillway, of New Orleans,
A certification of land sale handwritten in English from John Houlihan to Allen Hillway, and signed at the end by Houlihan, Hillway, and Nathaniel Townsend.
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| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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New Orleans, Louisiana :
Consulate of the Republic of Texas,
1838.
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| Summary: | A certification of land sale handwritten in English from John Houlihan to Allen Hillway, and signed at the end by Houlihan, Hillway, and Nathaniel Townsend. |
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| Item Description: | Title devised by cataloger. Includes Seal of the Republic of Texas. Nathaniel Townsend was a merchant and Republic of Texas diplomat. On April 2, 1837, Townsend was named consul at New Orleans for the Republic of Texas by President Sam Houston; he served in that position until September 20, 1838. The McMullen-McGloin colony was founded in 1828 by John McMullen and James McGloin after an empresario contract originally granted to John G. Purnell and Benjamin D. Lovell was relinquished. The contract called for settling 200 families on the left bank of the Nueces River above the coastal reserve. In October 1831 the colonists laid out a town on the east bank of the Nueces, which they called San Patricio de Hibernia, or St. Patrick of Ireland, for the patron saint of their homeland. The Cushing Library/Chapman Texas Collection copy is part of the Floyd & Louise Chapman Texas & Borderlands Collection. |
| Physical Description: | 2 sheets ; 33 cm or smaller, framed 62 cm |