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Pease, Elisha M., 1812-1883 [Texas land grant to "the School Commissioners of Hunt County, and their Successors"]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06623.17 Author/Creator: Pease, Elisha M., 1812-1883 Place Written: Austin, Texas Type: Printed document signed Date: 18 September 1856 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 31.5 cm, Width: 36.5 cm Order a Copy

Signed by Pease as governor and countersigned by J. Crosby (possibly Josiah Frazier Crosby), commissioner of the General Land Office. Partially printed grant of "One League" in "Cooke District, Wise and Cooke Counties," Texas. Specifies the precise location and boundaries of the tract.

Pease, Elisha Marshall, 1812-1883
Crosby, J., fl. 1855

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