Red River County, TX - LAND GRANTS - Jacob Blanton This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Sharon Black Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *************************************************************** Jacob Blanton's Land Grants The following are two documents concerning land grants of Jacob Blanton of Red River County, TX. The second document attests to his service in the Rep of TX army. Texas General Land Office holdings, Austin, Tx File 168, Red River 2nd Class No. 79 Republic of Texas, County of Red River Jacob Blanton has appeared before us the Board of Land Commissioners for the county aforesaid and according to law that he arrived in the Republic subsequent to the Declaration of Independence 28th of September 1837 and that he is a single man and is entitled to six hundred and forty acres of land to be surveyed after the first of August 1838 given under our hands at Clarksville the 3rd day of August 1838. M.W. Matthews James Latimer David Lane Appropriated the amt called for by this certificate by survey of April 23rd 1839 Texas General Land Office Holdings, Austin, Tx Veteran Donation No. 1166 1280 Acres General Land Office Austin, Texas, March 14th 1885 This is to certify that Jacob Blanton is entitled to have surveyed by any legally authorized surveyor, upon any of the vacant and unappropriated public domain of the State of Texas, twelve hundred and eighty acres of land in accordance with the provisions of an act entitled "An act granting a certificate of twelve hundred and eighty acres to each of the surviving soldiers of the Texas Revolution, and the surviving signers of the declaration of Texas independence, and to the surviving widows of such soldiers and signers, and to the widows of those who fell at the Dawson massacre; and to repeal an act, approved April 26, 1879, entitled 'an act granting a land certificate of six hundred and forty acres to each of the indigent veterans who was engaged in the struggle for Texas independence prior to and at the Battle of San Jacinto, enrolled under the act approved July 28th, 1876,' " approved March 15, 1881, Said Jacob Blanton having made the proof required by said act. This certificate may be located as headright certificates; and said certificate and the land located by virtue thereof shall be exempt from forced sale as long as it shall remain the property of said Jacob Blanton. In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the impress of the seal of said office the date first above written. W.C. Walsh, Commissioner