Burnet County, TX - Land: Warren Allard, 1886 August 23, 2000 Submitted by: jm ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ ALLARD, Warren - filed 1886 Cover: File 1454 Travis Preemption Warren Allard 160 acres Act May 26 1873 Correct on Map of Burnet County April 19 1887 Contents No. 1. Affidavit No. 2. Field Notes No. 3. Cert. of Occupancy 11/19/86 No. 4. Cert. of Correction 4/2/87 The State of Texas Burnet County To The County Surveyor of Burnet County Texas- The undersigned hereby applies for the survey of the herein after described vacant public land, including my improvements, containing 160 acres, and beginning at the S.E. corner of the J.T. Brimer Survey, No. 446. Running West with the N. line of the House Lia - thence North and West for quantity. Warren Allard (his mark) The State of Texas Burnet County Before the undersigned authority this day personally appeared Warren Allard who being by me duly sworn upon oath says that he claims for himself in good faith under the laws granting homestead donations the land described in the foregoing designations. that he is without a homestead of his own and that he has actually settled on the land that he claims and that he believes the same to be vacant and unappropriated public domain. Warren Allard (his mark) Sworn to and subscribed before me on this the 9th day of September A.D. 1880 D.L. Luce Clerk C.C. Burnet Co. (next page) The State of Texas Burnet County Survey No. 1266 Field Notes of a survey of 160 acres of Land, made for Warren Allard, it being the quantity of land to which he is entitled by virtue of an affidavit made in accordance with Art 3939 and 3940. Revised Statutes. Said Survey is No. 1266 in Burnet County, Texas situated on the waters of Yancy Creek a tributary of Colorado River, about 20 miles N 25_ W of the town of Burnet. Beginning at the N.E. cor. of the GC & ST RR Co Sur No. 31. Thence S. 820 varas a Ravine 983 vs. S. E cor GC & ST RR Co. a St. Md. whence a Post Oak brs. N. 2-1/2_ W. 5 vs. a do. brs. N. 58-1/2_ W. 3 vs. Thence E. 250 vs. a Ravine 734 vs. a Rav. 919 vs. a St. md. on the N. line of the J. House League whence a Post O. brs. N. 10_ W. 12-1/2 vs. a do. brs. N. 21_ E. 2-1/2 vs. Thence N. 110 vs. a Rav. 983 vs. St. Md. whence a P.O. brs. S. 63_ W. 7 do. brs N. 32_ W. 3 vs. Thence W. 919 vs. to the place of the beginning. Bearings marked H Surveyed July 29th, 1881 T.H. Estes F.D. Schooley chain carriers ...and that they are recorded in my office in Book 6, page 9. Given under my hand at Burnet this 21st day of Sept. A.D. 1881. T.A. Chamberlain Surveyor Burnet County, Texas Next page) PROOF OF SETTLEMENT UNDER HOMESTEAD ACT The State of Texas County of Burnet Before me, the undersigned authority in and for the County aforesaid, this day came and personally appeared Warren Allard, a resident citizen of said County, who being by me duly sworn, declares that he is a bona fide settler upon 160 acres of vacant Public Land, situated in said County, and surveyed for him on the 29thday of July 1881, by T. A. Chamberlain a Surveyor of said County; that he has occupied and improved the same as a Homestead for a period ofthree consecutive years, beginning on the 9th day of September 1880, that he is the head of a family, and that he makes this affidavit for the purpose of obtaining a title to the same for a Homestead, under "An act for the Benefit of Actual Occupants of the Public Lands," approved May 26th, 1873, and Acts prior and subsequent thereto; and that he has not a Homestead other than the above. And also at the same time came and personally appeared J.M. Patterson and J.C. Patterson, two credible resident citizens of said County, to me well known, and who being duly sworn, depose and say that Warren Allard the person first named above in this Affidavit, has actually settled upon and cultivated as a Homestead the land surveyed for him on the 29th day of July 1881, by the surveyor aforesaid, for the period of three years, and they nor either of them have any interest in the said land. Warren Allard (his mark) J.M. Patterson J.C. Patterson (his mark) Sworn to and subscribed before me, and I hereby certify that J.M. Patterson and J.C. Patterson are credible and trustworthy citizens of said County. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County, at office, this 21st day of October 1886. /s/ T.A. Chamberlain Notary Public Clerk of County Court, Burnet Co.