Books and Manuscripts

Houston, Sam
Partially-Printed Document, signed
Austin, Republic of Texas, February 23, 1842. Partially-printed land grant on vellum (no. 155), signed by Sam Houston as third President of the Republic of Texas, granting Thomas J. Potts 640 acres of land in Jasper County; counter-signed by Commissioner General of the Land Office, Thomas W. Ward; with blind stamp seal of the Republic of Texas and General Land Office at bottom; docketed on verso. Houston's signature and manuscript faded; creasing from old folds; two very small holes along central vertical fold. In mat and in double-sided plexiglass frame. 

Sam Houston, serving as third president of the young Republic of Texas, grants 640 acres of land in Jasper County to Thomas J. Potts. The Republic of Texas was established only four years earlier on March 2, 1836. Houston served twice as Texas's President, its first, from October 22, 1836-December 10, 1838, and its third, from December 13, 1841-December 9, 1844. Following the Republic's annexation by the United States in December 1845, he was one of the first two individuals to represent the state in the United States Senate, and then later served as Texas's seventh governor, from 1859-61.