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West, Claiborne, fl. 1800-1866 [Certification of Michael Pevito's right to Texas land]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06624.02 Author/Creator: West, Claiborne, fl. 1800-1866 Place Written: Jefferson County, Texas Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 29 March 1838 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 16 cm, Width: 19.5 cm Order a Copy

Signed by West as president of the Board of Land Commissioners of Jefferson County, Texas, and countersigned by Hezekeah Williams and John Bollinger. Attested to by Joseph P. Pulsifer, clerk. Certifies that Pevito came to Jefferson County in October 1835 and that he was a married man "entitled to one league and labor of land," on the condition that he paid the outlined rates for the land.

West, Claiborne, fl. 1800-1866
Pulsifer, Joseph Perkins, 1805-1861
Williams, Hezekeah, fl. 1838
Bollinger, John, fl. 1838

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