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SEC. 2 .- That eachi single man over the age of seventeen, who has or may emigrate as provided in the first section of this act, shall be entitled to three hundred and twenty acres of land, upon the same conditions and restrictions as the heads of families.
SEO. 3 .- That in no instance shall a patent be issued under the provisions of this act unless the party produce the official certificate of the chief justice of the county where he may reside, that he, the said applicant, has proven by two respectable and creditable wit- nesses, that he has resided on the land for which he wishes to receive a patent, and that he has cultivated the quantum of land re-
quired by this act for the term of three years, and that he has done and performed all the duties required of other citizens; and that he has taken the oath of allegiance to this republic, provided always, the applicant
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shall be required to make oath or affirmation that he has complied with the requisitions of this aet; which oath or affirmation shall be properly anthenticated.
SEC. 4 .- That the president of the repub- lic be and he is hereby anthorized to make a contract with W. S. Peters, Daniel S. Carroll, Alexander McRed, Rowland Gibson, Robert Espie, William II. Oldmixon, Daniel Spill- man, Robert Hume, John Salmon, W. C. Bansamen, John Peters, William Scott, Phin- eas J. Johnson, H. S. Peters, Timothy Cray, and Samuel Browning collectively, for the purpose of colonizing and settling a portion of the vacant and nnappropriated lands of the republic, on the following conditions, to-wit: The said contractors, on their part, agree to introduce a number of families to be speci- fied in the contract, within three years from the date of the contract, provided, however, they shall commence the settlement within one year from the date of said contract.
SEO. 5 .- That the said contract shall be drawn np by the Secretary of State, setting forth such regulations and stipulations as shall not be contrary to the general principles of this law and the constitution, which con- tract shall be signed by the President and the party or parties, and attested by the Secretary of State, who will also preserve a copy in his department.
SEC. 6 .- That the President shall designate certain boundaries to be above the limits of the present settlements, within which the emigrants under the said contraet must re- side; provided, however, that all legal grants and surveys that may have been located
within the boundaries so designated pre- vionsly to the date of said contract shall be respected; and any locations or surveys made by the contractors or their emigrants on such grants and surveys, shall be null and void.
SEC. 7 .- That not more than one section of six hundred and forty acres of land, to be located in a square, shall be given to any family comprehended in said contract nor more than three hundred and twenty acres to a single man over the age of seventeen years.
SEC. 8 .- That no individual contract made between any contractor and the families or single persons which he may introduce, for a portion of the land to which respectively they may be entitled by way of recompense for passage, expense of transportation, removal or otherwise, shall be binding if such contract embrace more than one-half of the land, which he, she or they, may be entitled to under this law; nor shall any contract act as a licu on any larger portion of such land; nor shall any emigrant be entitled to any land, or re- ceive a title for such land until such person or persons shall have built a good and com- fortable cabin upon it, and shall keep in cul- tivation and under good fence at least fifteen acres on the tract which he may have received.
SEC. 9 .- That all the expenses attending the selection of the land, surveying title and other fees, shall be paid by the contractor to the persons respectively authorized to receive them; provided, however, that this provision shall not release the colonist from the obli- gation of remnnerating the contractor in the amount of all such fees, so soon as it can be
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done withont a sale of their land; and further, the President may donate to every settlement of one hundred families made under the pro- visions of this act one section of six hundred and forty acres of land to aid and assist the settlement in the erection of a building for religious public worship.
SEC. 10 .- That the president may allow the contractors a compensation for their ser- vices, and in recompense of their labor and expense attendant on the introduction and settlement of the families introduced by him, ten sections for every hundred families, and in the same ratio of half sections for overy hundred single men introduced and settled; it being nnderstood that no fractional number less than one hundred will be allowed any preminm.
SEO. 11 .- That the premium lands must be selected from the vacant lands within the territorial limits defined in the contract; and further, all fees incidental to the issne of patents for lands acquired under the pro- visions of this law shall be paid to the com- inissioner of the general land office, for the use and benefit of the public treasury.
SEC. 12 .- That a failure on the part of the contractors and a forfeiture of their contract, shall not be prejudicial to the rights of such families and single persons as they may in- troduce, who shall be entitled to their re- spectivo quotas of land agreeable to the pro- vision of this law.
SEO. 13 .- That the contractors shall be required to have one-third of the whole number of the families and single persons for
which they contract, within the limits of the Republic before the expiration of one year from the date of the contract, under the penalty of a forfeiture of the same; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, forthwith, after the expiration of such term and failure on the part of the contractors to comply with the provision, to publish and declare said forfeiture, unless the President, for good, sufficient reasons, shall extend the term six months, which he can do; and all substitutions of families living within the limits of the Republic by the contractors shall not entitle them to any premiums for ench families, nor shall it operate in favor of them for the number of families which they are bound to introduce; and this act shall take effect from and after its passage."
Advertisement of this act was extensively made in all the other States, and thereby much attention was attracted to Texas. But few, however, had the conrage to come and remain as settlers.
Under this act a contract was made between Sam Houston, then President of Texas, and Samuel Browning, attorney for a company composed of Joseph Carroll, Henry Peters, et al, on the 30th day of August, 1841, in which it was agreed that a colony, to be called Peters' Colony, should locate in the northern portion of the State. It covered a large sec- tion of territory, reaching from the southern border of the Red river to a line so far south as to include a large portion of what is now Ellis connty. The east border of this colony survey took its beginning at the mouth of
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Big Mineral creek on Red river, and coming south it cut into the territory now ocenpied by Dallas county, about ten miles east of the city of Dallas. Accordingly the section of territory now known as Dallas connty was included entirely in this colony, with the exception of a small strip on the east about three miles in width.
There were many disputes, resulting almost in serious difficulties, between some of the the settlers and the colonists as to the rights of the settlers in this colony, and especially the amount of land each family should have allotted to it; also the amount each single inan should be allowed. Finally, the laws of the State stepped in and put a quietus to this wrangle by setting aside for each family what was then and is now called a seetion, compris- ing 640 acres, and to a single man a half sec- tion, being of course 320 aeres.
The headquarters of the originators of this colony were located at Louisville, Kentucky, and the advertisement of the many advan- tages of this colony in the way of rich lands, delightful elimate, ete., caught the attention of many, especially in Kentucky; and that brave, noble and trne-hearted Kentuckian, John Neely Bryan, made up his mind to brave the dangers and endure the hardships of this wild country. So he came and located near Dallas, in 1841, and is known as the first settler of Dallas county. Others came from his State and from Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee, and most of them settled in this section, comprising Dallas county,-at least it received a liberal proportion of the
immigrants. Up to 1846, all of Dallas county east of the Trinity river, belonged to Nacogdoches county, and all of Dallas west of the Trinity river belonged to what was then known as Robertson county. So for four years these earlier settlers were com- pelled in attending their courts to go the distance of about two hundred miles to Na- cogdoches, then the county seat, and the set- tlers across the Trinity, almost in halloing distance, yet the citizens residing in that sec- tion of country now occupied by the beautiful suburban little eity, Oak Cliff, had then to go to the rather important and proud village of the frontier, old Franklin, about one hundred and fifty miles from Houston. Frequently these pioneers had to go to their courts to serve as jurors by processes of court or to transact legal business. What more striking example of fortitude, sacrifice and devotion could be found showing a determination to build up and acquire homes for themselves than was exhibited by these faithful and patient pioneers! Thus the real settlement of Dallas county began with these pioneers about 1842.
ITEMS FROM J. II. BROWN'S HISTORY.
The following is taken from John Henry Brown's history of Dallas county, with the venerable old gentleman's consent. As he is one of the very few pioneers still living who knew Dallas county when but a wilderness, and has seen her growth to her present won- derful status, and remembers the names of all the earlier settlers, whenee they were and
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so forth, we give the following from his his- tory :
" The actual settlement of Dallas county began in the spring of 1842, when the first cabin was ereeted and the families of Jolin Beeman and Captain Gilbert were the first to arrive (Mrs. Martha Gilbert being the first American lady) and relieve the loneliness of the adventurous and true-hearted avant coureur, John Neely Boyan, who had for five or six months been ' monarch of all he sur- veyed,' provided, he neither surveyed red men of the forest nor the raging Trinity on one of its periodic ' spreads.' Ile entertained them with the best he had-chiefly bear meat and honey-perhaps without recalling the adage about 'entertaining angels una- wares,' yet, it was verified in this ease, for, ere a great while, the lonely son of Tennessee gave his heart and hand to a comely and puro-hearted daughter of Illinois, in the person of Margaret, a daughter of Mr. John Beeman.
In 1842, besides James J. Beeman and family, the families of Thomas Keenan, Preston Witt, Alexander W. Webb, John HI. Cox, Perry Overton and others, arrived. The family of William M. Cochran came in March, 1843. In May came the family of Dr. John Cole, with his grown sons, Calvin G., John H. and James M., and other children; and in December, George W. Glover and family, Elder Amon MeCommas and grown sons, John, Elisha, Stephen B., and his brothers Stephen B. and John C., George L. Leonard and family and others.
In 1844 other members of the Cox family,
the Cameron family, Isaac B. Webb and family, the Jenkins family, the Harwood family, the Rawlins family and many others came.
In 1845 came William H. Hord and family, William B. Elam and family, W. Hamp Witt and family, Thomas M. Ellis and family, John H. Daniel, D. W. Reedy, the Hanght brothers, Adam C., Peter and Samnel A., with their families, John W. Smith and James M. Patterson (afterward the well- known first merchants of Dallas) both from Green county, Kentneky; John Thomas, wife, grown sons and daughters, from Missouri; James A. Coats, Marion A., and Thomas D. Coats, John C. McCoy, and others.
Among those arriving in 1846, were the families of Samnel Beeman, Mrs. Mary Ann Freeman, Obadiah W. Knight, William Traughber, I. N. Webb, John R. Fondren, Thomas Collins, James Collins (brothers), Albert G. Collins, Rev. James A. Smith, R. E. Rawlins and other members of the Raw- lins family, Wormley Carter, Asher W. Carter, John Anderson, Marquis de Lafay- ette Gracy (single) and many others.
From the history of this venerable his- torian, also, we take by permission the fol- lowing list of names of all the settlers of Dallas county, reaching from the earliest settlement in 1841 to 1850, arranged alpha- betically :
SETTLERS OF DALLAS COUNTY 1841-'50.
Allen, Simon Bolivar, merchant, in 1848, lives in Bonham.
Atterberry, James and family. Atterberry, Stephen C. and family.
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Atterberry, Jesse and family.
Atterberry, Nathan (soldier in Mexico), and Churchill came single. Anderson, John L. and family, came from Kentucky, 1846.
Anderson, James and family, 1846. Anderson, Thomas R. and James W., both single.
Armstrong, James and family, came in 1846; his daughter, Frances E., came, the wife of John Bursey, and is now a widow; Martha married Robert Cook, and is a widow; Nancy J. married first William A. Knight, second W. Marion Moon; Mary J. married Alexander A. Thomas ; Anderson, the only son, died in 1848. Aytes, John and family, before 1849.
Archer, Thomas M., and family, 1846.
Ashlock, Josiah, and family.
Andrews, Ben F. and Samuel, came single. Alexander, J. J., came single.
Bnrsey, John, and wife, nee Frances E. Arm- strong, came in 1846.
Badgeley, Daniel A. and family; Job married Lydia Marks.
Balshmire, Henry, married Eliza Goodwin. Bryan, James B. (brother of John N)., came in 1846; married (second wife) Mrs. Elizabeth Harter, nee Beeman; children, William, James and Lenore.
Baird, George W., 1849, married Mary E. Thraughber.
Bethurum, Robert P., married Electa A. Hawpe.
Bethurum, Ben F., married Nancy P. Elam. Bast, Abraham, 1848, married - Myers; chil- dren, Morgan, Jack, David, Abraham, Julia, Lucinda and Eliza.
Bledsoe, "A" and family, from Missouri, 1846; children, Willis A., married Jane Boyle; Moses O. to Sadie George; Isaac C., to Miss Steele; Virginia, to Captain
R. A. Rawlins; Bettie, to Thomas Sprn- ance; Fleming G., to Juliet Samuels. Bledsoe, Anthony, married Martha Huitt. Bledsoe, Dr. Samuel T. and family, 1845. Bernard, Charles H., came from Illinois in 1847. Brown, Young E., and family, 1844. Brown, Crawford, and family, 1844.
Brandenburg, A., and family; Samuel came single.
Beard, Allen, and family.
Beverly, William, 1846, married Rebecca Conover; died in Collin county, in 1887. Bennett, Hiram, came in 1845; children, Madison, Hardy and C. L.
Bennett, William H., and family, 1845.
Bennett, William, and family, 1845.
Bennett, James M., and family, 1845.
Bennett, Elisha and Elijah D., came single.
Burris, Thomas and family.
Browder, Mrs. Lucy, came in 1845.
Browder, Isham, son of Lucy and family, 1845.
Browder, Edward C., son of Lucy, 1845, married Elizabeth Coats; his children, Pleasant S .; Annie B. married Edward Prickett; Emma married Dr. J. H. McCorkle; Fanny married G. M. Over- leese.
Bird, James, and family, from Missouri, 1844. Bird, Samuel P., came single.
Brnton, William, patriarch, from Illinois, 1845; children, Richard married Eliza- beth Cox; James R. married Nancy Edwards.
Britton, Joseph and family, 1848.
Baker, James M., married Ruth Forester.
Baker, Artemas, came single.
Barker, Joshua, married Sarah Hart.
Bandy, Richard T., married Aurelia A. Raw- lins.
Boyd, William J., married Milburn Bernetta Baggett.
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Billingsley, William, married Arena Kirk- land.
Barnes, William D., married Tabitha C. Sınith.
Barnes, William, came in 1845, in Grand Prairie fight.
Burnham, Horace, married Matilda Cole.
Burnett, William D., came single.
Brotherton, Robert K., came single. Brotherton, H. K.
Bowles, Rev. William, a Baptist preacher, who had married Mrs. Rebecca Self, came in 1844. Of the Self children, there were Ann, who married Robert Walker; Sarah E., who married Judge James M. Patterson; Harvin H. and Chonae Self. The children of Mr. Bowles, by this marriage, are Harrison II., living in Kaufman, and Hannah F., who married George W. Davis.
Burford, Nathaniel M., came from Tennessee in 1848, married Mary Knight in 1854; their children, Mattie, married William Morris Freeman in 1886; Nathaniel is dead; Robert Lee, Jeff Mallard and May. Barrett, Roswell B., an orphan of Texas pa- rentage, came with James Armstrong in 1846, married " Babe " Baldridge.
Barrett, James W., brother of Roswell, still single.
Bledsoe, Allen, came in 1845, in Grand Prairie fight.
Buskirk, Jonas, and family.
Bradshaw, David, and family.
Beeman, Jolin, and family, from Illinois to Bowie county, 1840; to Boyd's Fort, November, 1841 ; to Dallas county, April 1842. His wife was Emily Hunnieut, yet living. Their children: Elizabeth married first Henry Harter in 1844, going eighty miles to Bonham for that purpose; second, B. Bryam, and third
William Cumby; Margaret married John Neely Bryan; William H. married Mar- tha Dye; Samnel H. married Mary Ann Weatherford; Isaac H. died in California; James H. married Mary Hammond; Clarissa married - Walker; Naney married William W. Ilobbs; Aun mar- ried John Fugate; Caroline married Isaac Fisher ;- ten children, nine mar- ried.
Beeman, James J., in St. Charles connty, Mis- souri, in 1836, married Sarah Crawford; in Dallas, November 29, 1851, lie mar- ried Elizabeth Baker, from Ohio. By the first marriage he had children; Mary J. (died in 1884), married first Henry l'rice; second, Wyatt Barnett; Emily T. married William T. Baker; Francis M. married Amanda MeCormick; Melissa died in youth. By his second wife J. J. had Charles A., who married Martha McCormick, aud Sarab E., who married L. A. Sweet.
Beeman, Samuel, married in St. Charles county, Missouri, Mary Sinelser (both now dead), and came November, 1846, from Calhoun county, Illinois. Of their children Jolın S. married Isabel Bryan in Illinois, came with his father; Ruth married Adam C. Hanght, whose first wife, Margaret, was a sister of her father; Naney (in Illinois), married William Hunnieut; Isaac married Hannab Be- thurum ; Temperance married - Moore; Peter married Matilda Riggs; William and Jacob were killed in the Confederate army; Kate married Newton Husted. The three brothers brought twenty-four children to Dallas county, including those born here.
Caldwell, Solomon, and family, from Illinois, 1842.
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Caldwell, William, and family, from Illinois. Corley, Adelbert, son of the Rev. Samuel Corley, the Mexican war soldier, came in 1848; for thirty years has been Clerk of Red River county.
Cole, John P., and family, removed to Tarrant. Corcoran, John T., and family, 1845.
Crabtree, William, and family.
Cochran, William M., and wife, nee Nancy
J. Hughes, Tennesseans, came from Mis- souri in 1843. He died April 24, 1853. She died October 15, 1877; of their chil- dren, John H. married Martha Johnson; Archelans M., first married Laura, one of the Knights of '46. Second, Mrs. Mary Collins, nee Jenkins; William P. married Amanda M. Lawrence; James M., (born in Dallas county June 1, 1846) married first Maggie B. Lively, second Nannie Clark, third HIattie Bourland; George W., died single in 1872; Martha A., married William Harris.
Crutchfield, Thomas F., and family, from Kentucky, 1845; children : James O. M .; Fannie Floyd; Albertus went to Califor- nia ; Th. Ella married G. S. C. Leonard; Ophelia married John J. Eakins, who died in 1886; Minerva, married John W. Swindells; Betty married John W. Lane. Cousy, Mrs. Nancy, and family.
Cousy, Thomas W., caine single.
Casey, John, and family.
Casey, Harvey, came single.
Casey, Harry, came single.
Cornelius, Abner P., and family.
Crumpacker, Daniel and Joel, came single. Cheshire, Thomas, and family.
Cook, John C., married Elvira Mays.
Carver, Solomon, and family.
Carver, Abraham, and family.
Carver, Daniel, came single.
Chenoweth, James F., and family.
Chenoweth, Thomas, married Hannah Keenan. Clark, A. J. (old Texan), came in 1845,-in Grand Prairie; first married Sarah Myers; their son, H. C., in Dallas. Clark, Henry, and family.
Clark, William, came in 1845; his family came with Judge Patterson, in January, 1846.
Cates, James, came in 1844; in Grand Prai- rie fight; married Elvira Fay.
Campbell, Thomas J., came single.
Chapman, John C., and family.
Chapman, Robert, came single.
Castor, Jacob, came single.
Carlock, Jacob G., came single.
Coats, Samuel, and family, from Illinois, in 1845.
Coats, Thomas D., and family, from Illlinois, 1845.
Coats, Marion A., and William B., came single.
Cox, John H., and wife, from Illinois, 1842. Cox, George, from Illinois, 1842.
Cox, James, from Illinois, 1844.
Cox, David B., from Illinois, 1844.
Cox, Hartwell B., from Illinois, 1844.
Cox, Joseph, married Narcissa Elam.
Cox, Williamn, married Mary Dike.
Conover, Dr. W. W., came 1845.
Campbell, Thomas A., married Margaret A. Coobes.
Carr, William, and family.
Carr, Henry, cama single.
Connor, William D., married Mary Fikes.
Carpenter, Timothy, and family came in 1843.
Crowley, Richard, married Almeda Leake.
Crowley, Benjamin F., married Edna Leake. Calder, Dr., came in 1842, killed by Indians in Collin, February, 1843.
Coombes, William, and family, from Ken- tucky, 1843; children: Leven G. married Jane H. Heady; Zachariah Ellis married
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Rebecca F. Bedford; Isaac N. married Berrilla K. Myers; Margaret A. married Thomas A. Campbell and died in Mis- souri, in 1869; Mary M. married Levi M. Bumfas; Rebecca F. married William L. Holt, and is dead. Children by a second wife, Samuel H .; John W., and three daughters.
Combs, Joseph, and family, (Cedar Hill) came before July 1848; of his children Zur married Sarah Evans; William S. married Elizabeth J. Evans; Robert.
Chowning, Robert, came in 1845.
Chowning. J. W., married Nancy Myers in Illinois-in Grand Prairie fight in 1846; found the murdered l'helps party in 1848; lives in Denton.
Concli, Henderson, as foreman of the jury at the first court ever held in Dallas county, December, 1846; lie and his eleven col- leagues divorced Mrs. Charlotte M. Dal- ton from her husband, Joseph Dalton, and before the sun of that day glided to the "heathen Chineo" side of the globe; the said Henderson Conch and Charlotte M. Dalton, legally and constitutionally, were husband and wife. It was the first civil suit-Dalton es. Dalton-ever tried in Dallas county; yet some people of this day imagine that the "early times" of Dallas were of the backwoods, "Ar- kansaw Traveler," non-progressive class, sueli as are found stnek away in certain spots in New York, New Jersey, Ponu- sylvania, and possibly a few in North Carolina and Virginia, but never in the prairies of the great West or Southwest. Let all such realize the electric dispatch business in early Dallas days, and bo convinced of their former erroneous in- pression, then tip their beavers to the
memory of Henderson and Charlotte Coueli.
Chenault, Wesley M., and family, in 1845. Chenault, William, came single, a soldier in Mexico, married Ruth Ann Jackson, died in 1886.
Cameron, David R., and family, from Mis- sonri, in 1844: among his children were Chris C., L. Frank and T. II.
Cockrell, Wesley, and family came in 1846. Cook, Henry, and family, before 1849.
Cole, Dr. John, wife and mostly grown cliil- dren came from Arkansas 1843; their children ; Calvin G., married in Arkansas, Elvira Reeder; James M. married Sarah Bennett; John H. married Elizabeth Pres- ton; Martin V. married Maggie Preston ; Joseph married Jennie Overton; Ma- linda became second wife of James N. Smith; Eliza married Jefferson Tilley, and is a widow in Arkansas; Louisa married A. G. Walker, and is dead; Win. A., lives in Medina county, mar- ried Mary Bennett.
Cook, Williford W., brother of Robert M., came in 1845.
Cook, Robert M., surveyor, came in 1845, married Martha Armstrong.
Connor, Abraham, and family came before 1846.
Crockett, John M., and wifo came from Ten- nessee October, 1847.
Collins, James, and wife, Nancy, came in 1846.
Collins, Thomas, brother of James, and wife, Mary, came in 1846.
Collins, Albert G., and wife, Pamelia, came from Kentneky 1846; their children: Orzelia married John Shipley, now a a widow; James, William, Joel and Henry are dead; Foster in Lonisana; Joseph and Albert G., living; Martha
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married Jacob Ervay and lives in Wy- oming; Annie married P. King Taylor and lives in Cisco, Texas. The parents are still living.
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