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96637

Historical Volumes

1841 (Creation Date)

John P. Borden (GLO Commissioner)

Bound Volume Colony Mexican Texas

16.0 x 11.5 inches

40.6 x 29.2 cm

paper, bound volume

Record book for the Robertson’s Colony (variously known as the Texas Association, Nashville Colony, or Upper Colony), The volume is composed of several discrete sections, including “A list of deeds received from William H. Steele, Commissioner for the Nashville Company, January 14, 1836”; Surveys made in 1826 by Felix Robertson for the Texas Association” (pages 9-43); and “List of colonists received since the passage of the Organic Law in the Nashville Colony’” (page 52-77). The final, unnumbered section is entitled “List of lands deeded in the Nashville Colony 1834 and 1835.”