urn:taro:utexas.cah.00930 A Guide to the John Charles Beales Papers, 1832-1855 Original EAD encoding by Jessi Fishman according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. April 2008 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Beales, John Charles John Charles Beales Papers 1832-1855 Materials are written in English. 1 inch Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Reminiscences, land grants, deed, and legislative petition concern colonization ventures of Beales (1804-1878), empresario. Biographical Note

John Charles Beales, speculator in Texas lands, the son of John Charles and Sarah (Waller) Beales, was born at Alburgh, Norfolk County, England, on March 20, 1804. He was a doctor, but before 1833 he gave up the practice of medicine to devote his time to promoting the development of several empresario contracts he acquired in the region north of the Rio Grande.

Scope and Contents

Reminiscences, land grants, deed, and legislative petition concern colonization ventures of Beales (1804-1878), empresario. Papers relate specifically to Beales’s Rio Grande Colony, the Texas Land Company, and Beales’s efforts to effect restoration of his Mexican grants after the çTexas Revolution and again after Texas joined the United States.

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Index Terms Subjects Beales, John Charles. Dolores, Texas. Beales’s Rio Grande Colony. Colonies and colonization. Empresarios. Texas Land Company. Preferred Citation

John Charles Beales Papers, 1832-1855, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory 2E95 Reminiscences and other materials 3S165 Oversize and legal documents, 1833, 1854, 1855