urn:taro:utexas.cah.02136 A Guide to the Galveston and Brazos Navigation Company Deed, 1870 Original EAD encoding by Laurel Rozema according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. November 2010 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Galveston and Brazos Navigation Company Galveston and Brazos Navigation Company Deed 1870 Materials are written in English. 69-072 1 item Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin The Galveston and Brazos Navigation Company Deed, 1870, is for 640 acres of land sold for one dollar to Franklin H. Merriman by John Seley for the Galveston and Brazos Navigation Company. Historical Note

In 1850, the Galveston and Brazos Navigation Company was founded in order to construct a canal from the harbor of West Galveston Bay to the Brazos River. Officers of the company included president John Seley and commissioners John S. Sydnor and Gail Borden, Jr., among others.

Source:

Galveston and Brazos Navigation Company. Handbook of Texas Online. Accessed December 9, 2010. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dqg01.

 Scope and Contents

The Galveston and Brazos Navigation Company Deed, 1870, is for 640 acres of land sold for one dollar to Franklin H. Merriman by John Seley for the Galveston and Brazos Navigation Company. The deed, dated March 9, 1870, includes a plat and description of the land and its location near Woodville, Texas, along the Brazos and Neches rivers in Tyler and Galveston counties.

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 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Merriman, F. H. Seley, John Subjects (Organizations) Galveston and Brazos Navigation Company Subjects Deeds -- Texas. Places Galveston County (Tex.) Tyler County (Tex.) Woodville (Tex.) Neches River Region (Tex.) Brazos River Region (Tex.) Preferred Citation

Galveston and Brazos Navigation Company Deed, 1870, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Related Material

See also Galveston and Brazos Navigation Co. Papers, 1853-1874, Galveston and Texas History Center, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas.

 Processing Information

This collection was processed by Goodrich, May 1970.

Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project, 2009-2011.

 Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory: 3K1 Deed, March 9, 1870