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Byrd Lockhart signed document conveying land to his brother Charles four days after the fall of the Alamo
Surviving Alamo Defender Byrd Lockhart Document Signed. Two
pages, 8 x 12 ½ inches; Gonzales; March 10, 1836. In part: "That
the said Byrd Lockhart hath bargained, sold released, renounced and
relinquished and by these presents doth bargain, sell, release,
renounce and relinquish unto said Charles Lockhart, all and
singular that certain tract or parcel of land containing two
hundred and eight acres (more or less) lying and being situated on
the Southwest side of the Guadeloupe River, and being a part of
that League of land known as Survey No 5 in Class No D, and which
the said Byrd Lockhart received as a settler in the Colony of Green
DeWitt by deed from the Commissioner of the State bearing date 15th
April 1831..." Signed "Byrd Lockhart" at the conclusion
and by Andrew Ponton as First Judge of the Jurisdiction.Lockhart moved to Texas after a chance meeting with Green DeWitt in New Orleans and settled in DeWitt's colony in March 1826. He made his living as a surveyor and was soon commissioned deputy surveyor for Gonzales. He was appointed surveyor to DeWitt's colony in April 1831, and likely received the League which he is selling a portion of with this document at that time.
Lockhart served as a private during the Siege of Bexar, and in January 1836 he was commissioned by James W. Robinson to negotiate with the Comanche Indians who were threatening Bexar. In early February he was charged with raising volunteers in Gonzales and Milam and mustered into service of the Gonzales Ranging Company of Mounted Volunteers on February 23. It is believed that he arrived at the Alamo as part of the Gonzales Ranging Company on March 1. Lockhart was sent along with Andrew Jackson Sowell shortly before the arrival of the Mexican forces to obtain supplies for the garrison and were delayed in Gonzales. This delay saved them from the fate suffered by the rest of the Alamo defenders.
At the time he signed this document on March 10, news of the fall of the Alamo had not yet reached Gonzales. Susanna Dickinson arrived two days later on the evening of March 12 bringing notice of the tragedy suffered there.
Condition: Wear along the folds, with minor separations and loss at the margins thereat not affecting any text. A fold runs through the top of Lockhart's signature.
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