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Burnet, David G. Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company printed power of attorney (12-10-1830)

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04250 Author/Creator: Burnet, David G. Place Written: New York Type: Document signed Date: 1832/11/09 Pagination: 2 p. 33.2 x 20 cm Order a Copy

Followed by a later power of attorney sending John Mason to lobby Mexico to change its colonization law. Also signed by Anthony Dey, William H. Sumner, George Curtis and others. From the Papers of Anthony Dey.

Mason, John, fl. 1832
Dey, Anthony
Sumner, William, fl. 1832
Curtis, George Ticknor, 1812-1894

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