On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Georgia McKenzie Ellison wrote: >If anyone knows more about the Texas Land Co., I would appreciate you >sharing it. Google is your friend. When searching type "Texas Land Company" & Tennessee or "Tennessee-Texas Land Company" into the google search box to limit the results. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WOOD/2000-04/0954703428 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GROGAN/1997-04/0862101375 http://dl.tamu.edu/Projects/sodct/dewittbios2h-n2.htm http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/caldwell/history/quarterly/indexcal.txt http://members.tripod.com/~BillHutton/lucille/pafn04.htm http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/expansioncon.htm http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/tenntexland.htm The last link goes into much detail. Much information, specific deed books, pages, etc. The summary reads: "In summary, in 1830 Green DeWitt realized that he had a problem in fulfilling his contract with Mexico to settle 400 families by a certain date. One of his answers to this dilemma was to send his agent, William A. Matthews to Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee to contract for 20 families to move to Texas and settle in the DeWitt colony. He drew up a contract with Alexander, Brock and the McKean brothers to recruit the 20 families. Only 17 families were contracted for, and Matthews accompanied the group on their "long, hard overland trip" and saw to their needs, supplies, land procurement and proper titles to their lands. The responsibility of the Bolivar group was to finance the move. All members of the Bolivar contractors were to receive land for their services. Joseph McKean never left Tennessee. Probably the other three accompanied the move to Texas, but John C. McKean witnessed to the appeals court that Brock, Alexander and Joseph McKean never completed their contract requirements. John C. McKean was active in the colony and added to his land holdings from time to time. The families named above have been confirmed as having been members of the Tennessee-Texas Land Company. There may have been others. For example in addition to the above named who signed contracts with the DeWitt Colony on 22 February 1831, there were others who signed contracts with the DeWitt Colony on 22 February 1831, there were others who signed on that same date. These include Daniel Davis, Zachariah Davis, John Garvin, Joseph F. Lawlor, Soloman Seal, James Shaw and Christopher S. Williams. Exhaustive searches have failed to verify their affiliation with the Tennessee-Texas Land Company." -- James

Thanks Georgia Saved me lots of work going thru my notebooks))) btw, My Sarah Grogan was in that group but did not receive land . She was obviously traveling with some family in that group very possibly the Baker's. But have found no hard evidence that she was related to any one of them. Her presence there was documented in testimony in a land dispute case concerning her oldest child's inheritance of her father's land . My Sally was married to Fredrick Roe, Sept of 1831, released from marriage bond after about 3-6 months Roe was paid by Wm Sowell a gallon of whiskey and a plug of tobacco to release her. She moved in with Wm and his father and mother where they lived as man and wife for over a year before being married by bond in the summer of 1834 their infant daughter Rachel attended the ceremony. William got into a dispute in the fall of 1834 with Spencer Morris who was also in the Tn Group. Morris cut his throat . My Sally married my ancestor Elijah Tate in Feb of 1835. Sally was pregnant with my gg-greatfather during the Texas Revolution and was in the Run away Scrape in the spring of 1836. She subsequently married the 4th time after Elijah's death or departure David Houmard in the fall of 1850. Earlier that year she was living with the John Baker family next door to Blackstone Hardiman's hh. She married for the last time in 1855 to Charles Thomas by whom she had her youngest child Ellen. Her children by Elijah were James Lewis (1836), William (1838) and Elizabeth (Lizze, 1842)). Some early letters suggested that she was Indian but I have not found any proof of that. I have not found a likely Grogan family in Tn that early (1813) . There was a Spencer Grogan in West Tn during the War of 1812 period but he moved on to Missouri long before Sally went to TX. Almeron and Susannah Dickerson were in that Tennessee group ( for those of you not familiar with Tx history) Susannah was the only Anglo woman left in the Alamo when it fell, her husband was killed there with other DeWitt Settlers who went to the aid of the men trapped there. Susannah witnessed the annulment of Sally's marriage to Fredrick Roe, well I am running on sorry, lot's of history in this group. Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: James Ford To: TNHARDEM-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [TNHARDEM] Texas Land Co. On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Georgia McKenzie Ellison wrote: >If anyone knows more about the Texas Land Co., I would appreciate you >sharing it. Google is your friend. When searching type "Texas Land Company" & Tennessee or "Tennessee-Texas Land Company" into the google search box to limit the results. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WOOD/2000-04/0954703428 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GROGAN/1997-04/0862101375 http://dl.tamu.edu/Projects/sodct/dewittbios2h-n2.htm http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/caldwell/history/quarterly/indexcal.txt http://members.tripod.com/~BillHutton/lucille/pafn04.htm http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/expansioncon.htm http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/tenntexland.htm The last link goes into much detail. Much information, specific deed books, pages, etc. The summary reads: "In summary, in 1830 Green DeWitt realized that he had a problem in fulfilling his contract with Mexico to settle 400 families by a certain date. One of his answers to this dilemma was to send his agent, William A. Matthews to Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee to contract for 20 families to move to Texas and settle in the DeWitt colony. He drew up a contract with Alexander, Brock and the McKean brothers to recruit the 20 families. Only 17 families were contracted for, and Matthews accompanied the group on their "long, hard overland trip" and saw to their needs, supplies, land procurement and proper titles to their lands. The responsibility of the Bolivar group was to finance the move. All members of the Bolivar contractors were to receive land for their services. Joseph McKean never left Tennessee. Probably the other three accompanied the move to Texas, but John C. McKean witnessed to the appeals court that Brock, Alexander and Joseph McKean never completed their contract requirements. John C. McKean was active in the colony and added to his land holdings from time to time. The families named above have been confirmed as having been members of the Tennessee-Texas Land Company. There may have been others. For example in addition to the above named who signed contracts with the DeWitt Colony on 22 February 1831, there were others who signed contracts with the DeWitt Colony on 22 February 1831, there were others who signed on that same date. These include Daniel Davis, Zachariah Davis, John Garvin, Joseph F. Lawlor, Soloman Seal, James Shaw and Christopher S. Williams. Exhaustive searches have failed to verify their affiliation with the Tennessee-Texas Land Company." -- James