Texas Land Grants

This website contains two document sections. These sections are Documents and Land Grants (this section). Most of the documents in these two sections were preserved for us by Dorothy Langley and made "web-ready" by Don Wafer. Dorothy is the granddaughter-in-law of Hiram McAdams, and Don is Hiram's great-grandson.

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1838 - John McAdams, Sr.

Document: Land Grant 1838 - John McAdams, Sr.  Republic of Texas Documents Upon the establishment of the Republic of Texas in 1836, John McAdams, Sr. was entitled, as a "married man with family" arriving in Texas in 1834, to receive one League and one Labor of land (4605 acres). Such a grant was designated by the Republic as a "First Class Headright Grant". The certificate that is reproduced in this segment together with the survey of the property he had selected authorized the Texas Land Office to issue Land Patent No. 610 to him on Feb 10, 1846. 5 pages

1838 - John McAdams, Jr.

Document: Land Grant 1838 - John McAdams, Jr.   Republic of Texas Documents First Class Headright Land Grant to a single man, issued to John McAdams, Jr. This series contains the certificate authorizing the land grant, the Land Patent and the land survey for the grant. 5 pages

1838 - John McAdams, Jr.

Document: Land Grant 1838 - John McAdams, Jr.  Republic of Texas Documents First Class Head of Family Land Grant to John McAdams, Jr. This series contains the certificate authorizing the land grant, the Land Patent and the land survey for the grant. 5 pages

1839 - John McAdams, Jr.

Document: Bounty Grant 1839 - John McAdams, Jr. Republic of Texas Documents Bounty Grants were issued to soldiers according to their length of service in the Army of the Republic. Given that John McAdams, Jr. had served in the Army for three months (July to October, 1836), he was therefore entitled to a 320 acre Bounty Grant. However, John, Jr. did not execute this grant, electing instead to assign this 320 acre grant to J.C. Hill in May, 1848 either as a sale or perhaps to pay back a debt. This was a commonly accepted practice as allowed by the established Rule of Law. 5 pages

1847 - John McAdams, Jr.

Document: Land Grant 1847 - John McAdams, Jr.  Republic of Texas Documents John McAdams, Jr. married Hester White in 1838 and was thereby entitled, as a married man and Head of Family, to an additional property grant from the Republic of Texas. His total "First Class Land Grant " was 4605 acres (One League plus One Labor). Since he had previously claimed a total of 3665 acres, this left 940 acres remaining to be claimed from his total Headright Grant. This series tracks the 940 acres. 6 pages

1838 - M.G. Casillas

Document: Land Grant 1838 - M.G. Casillas  Republic of Texas Documents This M.G. Casillas survey is a portion of the "First Class Head of Family Headright" Land Grant consisting of about 3454 acres (19 ½ Labors) that was originally issued to Maria Casillas. The full Land Grant was for 4605 acres (One League plus One Labor) and it is assumed that the remaining 1151 acres of the original Grant was either retained by the Casillas family or perhaps sold to other parties. Following a number of subsequent owners of this property, H.A. McAdams purchased ½ interest in 2301 acres out of this survey from John Smithers on December 26, 1884 and later purchased Smithers’ remaining ½ interest on August 23, 1886. Hiram later sold 1118 acres of this property, including ½ of the mineral rights, to the Gibbs Brothers on May 29, 1923. 6 pages

1841 - Hiram A. Powers

Document: Land Grant 1841 - Hiram A. Powers  Republic of Texas Documents Land Grant of 640 acres made by Mirabeau B. Lamar as President of the Republic of Texas to James G. Hutchinson, assignee of Hiram A. Powers. This property, known as the H. A. Powers survey, was eventually purchased by Hiram McAdams on December 16, 1876. The succession of owners can be traced in the series of deeds listed on page 5 of the General Documents section.