VERMONT TEXAS LAND COMPANY. ONE SHARE, ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS [caption title]
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Published by Bethel, Vt, 1837
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Printed form, approximately 8 x 7½ inches, completed in manuscript. Docketed in manuscript on verso. Old folds. Old stains along the left edge of the sheet, small hole at each end of lower horizontal sheet. About very good. A share in the Vermont Texas Land Company, organized in September 1836. The share is made out to Whitman Howard of Braintree, Vermont in Orange County, and signed by N. Williams, George Lyman, and Julius Converse. Lyman and Converse were both justices of the peace in Windsor County in the 1840s, and Converse went on to be governor of Vermont from 1872 to 1874. Beginning in 1820 the government of Mexico opened Texas to settlement by foreigners, provided they agreed to abide by the law and be morally upright citizens. This opened the way for many American settlers. Texas declared itself a free republic in March 1836, and shortly thereafter the Vermont Texas Land Company was organized. We can find no record of the company, though it would seem to still have been valid in 1845, when Heman Parkhurst transferred his share to Andrew Tracy, also of Sharon, Vermont. Unrecorded, and unknown to bibliographers. Seller Inventory # WRCAM47497
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Title: VERMONT TEXAS LAND COMPANY. ONE SHARE, ONE ...
Publisher: Bethel, Vt
Publication Date: 1837
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VERMONT TEXAS LAND COMPANY. No. [389]. ONE SHARE ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS. [caption title]
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Bethel [VT], 1837
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Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
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Single sheet, 20 x 19 cm. Partly printed, completed in manuscript. Unevenly trimmed along top edge, some chipping at right margin, old fold lines and occasional spotting. This share No. 389 is made out to Silas Tupper, of Barnard, in Windsor County, Vermont. Tupper, as proprietor of the share, was "entitled to his proportionable interest in the real and personal estate which may be purchased by said Company." The Vermont Texas Land Company was formed in September 1836, six months after Texas declared its independence from Mexico. The certificate was signed at Bethel on the ninth of January 1837, by N. Williams, George Lyman, and Julius Converse, Trustees. Endorsed by Tupper on the verso, transferring his rights to the share to Philo Hatch in 1843. Not in Streeter's Texas. The declaration of Texas independence sparked an interest in land speculation there. Although we have been unable to find any specific information about this company, at least one of the trustees was well known in Vermont. Julius Converse practiced law in Bethel, Vermont from 1826-1840, represented the town in the Vermont House and, in 1836, was elected to the state senate. He was later elected Governor of the state in 1872. [see: "Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States," (J.H. Lamb Co.: 1900)]. George Lyman was a Justice of the Peace in Windsor County in the 1840s, and N. Williams is most likely Norman Williams (1791-1868), a Vermont attorney, and later Vermont's Secretary of State [see: "History of Windsor County, Vermont," edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich & Frank R. Holmes (Syracuse, NY: 1891)]. One listing on OCLC: Yale. Seller Inventory # 66624
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VERMONT TEXAS LAND COMPANY. ONE SHARE, ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS [caption title].
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Bethel, Vt. January 25, 1837., 1837
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Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
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Printed form, approximately 8 x 7½ inches, completed in manuscript. Docketed in manuscript on verso. Old folds. Old stains along the left edge of the sheet, small hole at each end of lower horizontal sheet. About very good. A share in the Vermont Texas Land Company, organized in September 1836. The share is made out to Whitman Howard of Braintree, Vermont in Orange County, and signed by N. Williams, George Lyman, and Julius Converse. Lyman and Converse were both justices of the peace in Windsor County in the 1840s, and Converse went on to be governor of Vermont from 1872 to 1874. Beginning in 1820 the government of Mexico opened Texas to settlement by foreigners, provided they agreed to abide by the law and be morally upright citizens. This opened the way for many American settlers. Texas declared itself a free republic in March 1836, and shortly thereafter the Vermont Texas Land Company was organized. We can find no record of the company, though it would seem to still have been valid in 1845, when Heman Parkhurst transferred his share to Andrew Tracy, also of Sharon, Vermont. Unrecorded, and unknown to bibliographers. Seller Inventory # 47497
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