Item #67342 EXAMINING THE TRANSFER OF LAND CERTIFICATES BELONGING TO PATRICK H. ANDERSON FOR A CLIENT, IN A HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT ON THE LETTERHEAD OF CRAVENS & GOOCH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND GENERAL LAND AGENTS, PALESTINE, ANDERSON COUNTY, TEXAS, 1857. Cravens, Gooch.

EXAMINING THE TRANSFER OF LAND CERTIFICATES BELONGING TO PATRICK H. ANDERSON FOR A CLIENT, IN A HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT ON THE LETTERHEAD OF CRAVENS & GOOCH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND GENERAL LAND AGENTS, PALESTINE, ANDERSON COUNTY, TEXAS, 1857

[Palenstine, TX: 1857]. Single sheet of blue paper, folded to 27 x 21 cm., [3] pp. of text, approx. 680 words. Letterhead imprint for Cravens & Gooch on both leaves. The firm offered its services for collection of debts throughout Eastern Texas and location of land certificates in the best sections of the public domain. This letter, addressed to Jeremiah Brown, dated Feb. 26, 1857, signed "Craven & Gooch," was following up on a letter from Brown from the previous November. Brown had requested help locating the claims to certificates originally belonging to Patrick H. Anderson which he had received from other "parties." Since that time Craven had visited Austin on other business and discovered that "the original certificate for 640 for which you have the duplicate is in the hands of some one who has located it elsewhere, and therefore we may have some trouble about this matter...." Reference is made to other lands issued in Anderson's name and the value of those to the various heirs and to Brown himself: "we believe something can be done to profit if the heirs have not disposed of their remaining interest, or if in the hands of anyone in Kentucky probably a speculation might be made." Item #67342

Cravens & Gooch advertised their expertise in the Texas Almanac of 1857: "Our Senior Partner has given almost uninterrupted attention, for the last ten years, to the investigation, in practice, of the Land Titles of this State, and the various laws under which they have originated. All interests of this character confided to us will have our careful personal attention. A residence at this point, since 1848, and a practice in a large number of counties of the Trinity Valley, has given us a general acquaintance with the business and resources of this section of the State." [see: The Texas Almanac for 1857 (Richardson & Co., 1856)]
John Graham Gooch (1819-1866), moved from Kentucky and was one of the earliest settlers in Palestine, Texas. A lawyer, he also served as both a county and a district judge in Palestine.

Price: $225.00

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