George Antonio Nixon collection, 1799-1917, bulk (1817-1908).

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George Antonio Nixon collection, 1799-1917, bulk (1817-1908).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35591864

Correspondence, legal and financial documents, maps, surveys, field notes, research notes, genealogical materials, diaries, and printed materials. Manuscript maps, surveys, and field notes relate to land grants that belonged to Nixon and others; some maps are of San Antonio. Genealogical materials pertain to the Nixon and Duffield families. A few items relate to a dispute with Samuel A. Maverick over property in San Antonio; others to efforts by the heirs of James Bowie to claim land under his grant. Other prominent early Texans and Mexican officials represented in the collection include John T. Mason, Juan Antonio Padilla, James Hewetson, Barnard S. Bee, Agustín Viesca, and Anastasio Bustamante.

11 boxes (4.6 linear ft.)

University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7373260

University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library

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Gillum, Henry, 1832-1907

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Nixon was born in Ireland in 1781 and settled in Coahuila y Texas in the 1820s, becoming a citizen of Mexico in 1826. He was land commissioner for the Joseph Vehlein, Lorenzo de Zavala, and David G. Burnet empresario grants (which were represented by the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company) from July, 1834, to November, 1835, when the land office was closed by the provisional government of Texas. Nixon accumulated large personal holdings of land before his death in 1843. From the gu...

Duffield, William C., 1813-1854

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Duffield family.

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Duffield, Priscilla A. (Priscilla Ann), 1823-1864.

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Gillum, Virginia A. (Virginia Anne)

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Nixon, George A. (George Antonio), 1781-1843

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Nixon family.

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Yongue, Rosa P.

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