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Richard Coke Signed Land Grant Issued to Samuel Maverick Jr....
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Richard Coke Signed Land Grant Issued to Samuel Maverick Jr. One partially printed page, 17 x 14 inches, Austin; August 10, 1876. Governor of Texas Richard Coke grants Samuel Maverick, Jr., "Three hundred and Twenty (320) Acres of Land situated and described as follows: In Uvalde County...on the waters of West prong of Nueces..." Signed "Richard Coke" as Governor, and additionally signed by Johann J. Groos as Commissioner of the General Land Office. With blind embossed seals of the State of Texas and the General Land Office at bottom.Samuel A. Maverick, Jr. (1837-1936) was the son of Samuel Augustus Maverick, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and namesake of the term "maverick." Having moved with his family to Texas in 1838, the younger Maverick came of age in San Antonio during the Republic. When the Civil War began, he enlisted in Company B of the First Texas Mounted Rifles under Colonel Henry E. McCulloch, later transferring to the 8th Texas Cavalry (Terry's Texas Rangers) in search of more active service. After the war, he returned to San Antonio and passed the state bar examination in 1867. He subsequently ran a series of businesses and, like his father, invested in land to build his fortune.
Condition: Lightly toned with smoothed folds. Contemporary pencil annotations at the top and bottom margins. Minor mat burn to the left edge. Docketed on verso.
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2026 February 26 Historical Manuscripts & Texana Signature® Auction #6328 (go to Auction Home page)
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