Joseph C Teague
Birthdate: 1788 Birthplace: North Carolina
Death: Died 1840 in Crockett County, Texas,
JOSEPH C. TEAGUE was the only child of MAGNESS and FRANCES Rogers.
He married his first wife, Polly Chennault, on June 10, 1808, in Madison, Mississippi.
In 1825 he married his second wife, Susannah McClain.
He died in 1840 in Crockett, Texas, at the age of 52.
Children of Joseph C Teague and Polly Chenault
Francis W. Teague,1811
Magness Teague,1813
Children of Joseph C Teague and Susannah McClain
James Marion Teague,1824
William Andrew Jackson Teague,1829
Susan Teague,1831
John Skelton Teague,1834
Brothers And Sisters
Eleanor Teague;1783
Isaac Teague;1786
William Teague;1790
Elizabeth Teague;1791
Robert R Teague;1793
James R Teague;1795
Magness Simonton Teague
At the Texas General Land Office there is record of Survey done for John C.
Teague and given to grantee J.S. Teague no leagues listed, but found on abstract #325 for Bastrop Co., Tx.
In letter from J.D. Teague of Fairfield, Tx., 3-18-98 states...
"Our records show that it is believed that John Skelton (Teague) is buried in Houston Co. His father, Joseph C. (Teague) is buried in Houston Co.(Crockett area).
"Joseph signed the following on June 20, 1831:
"I, Joseph C. Teague, native of the United States of the North was admitted by
the Empresario Green DeWitt to colonize this state (Coahuila) and I am married and have 5 children including one son."
(Note: John Skelton Teague was not born until 1834. This first son was John's
brother, William J. Teague.)
J.D. TEAGUE also said that he had information showing that Joseph C. Teague died when his son, John Skelton Teague, was 6 years old.
I possess a copy of land deed documents which are in Spanish, but was
translated at the Texas General Land Office. It reads as follows...
"THIRD STAMP [Seal of the Treasury FOR THE BIENNIUM
of the Free State of TWO REALES Coahuila and Texas] OF 1834 AND 1835 Petition Honorable Special Commissioner of the Enterprise of Citizen Jose No.
69 Vehlein:
[I,] Joseph C. Teague, native of the United States of the North,with due respect appear before you and say that, attracted by the generous provisions of the colonization laws of this State, I have come with my family, consisting of my wife and six children,to settle in it if you should see fit in view of the attached certificate to admit me as a colonist, conceding to me one league of land in the vacant tracts of the said Enterprise. Therefore, I pray that
you may be pleased to grant me one league of land, as the favor I request, for which I shall live eternally grateful. Nacogdoches,
November 10, 1834.
[s] Joseph C. Teague
Order: Let the interested party proceed with the accompanying certificate to the corresponding Honorable Empresario in order that he may report on the foregoing petition. Nacogdoches, November 11, 1834
Jorge Ant. Nixon [Rubric] Com.r
Report: Honorable Commissioner:
I certify that the interested party is one of the colonists I have introduced in fulfillment of the contract I made with the Supreme Government of the State on December 21, 1826. Therefore,may it please you to issue the order of survey of the land he request. Nacogdoches, November 12, 1834.
[Lacks signature]
Decree: Nacogdoches, November 13, 1834.
[The petition] Having been presented and admitted with the
accompaning documents, the surveyor, Citizen Arthur Henrie, shall have the survey made of the league of land designated by the interested party, provided it be entirely vacant and he shall examine the notes, which are to be translated by Citizen Juan Leplicher, proceedings to follow as may be most suitable. Thus I decided and signed with two witnesses according to law.
Jorge Ant.o Nixon [Rubic]Com.r Assisting [witness] Assisting [witness]Joseph Carriere [Rubric] Eligio Albarado
[Rubric]
Field Honorable Commissioner:
Notes: The tract surveyed for colonisth Joseph C. Teague adjoins that of Reuben R. Russsel, on whose north boundary the first landmark was raised, formed by a mound around a post from which.
a pine 18 inches in diameter bears north 76 degrees east 3 6/10 varas distant and another pine 22 inch3es in diameter
bears south.70 degrees 30' west 9 5/10 varas distant. Thence west surveyed 2,200 varas and raised the 2nd landmark, from which a post oak 19 inches in diameter bears north 33 degrees west 5 4/10 varas distant and a black oak 22 inches in diameter bears south 67 degrees east 8 8/10 varas distant. Thence south surveyed 400 varas and raised the 3rd landmark, from which a black oak 33 inches in diameter bears north 88 degrees east 7 4/10 varas distant and a walnut 12inches in diameter bears north 67 degrees 30' west 5 1/10 [varas]distant. Thence west surveyed 2,800 varas and raised the 4th landmark, from which a black oak 23 inches in diameter bears south 4degrees west 1 9/10 varas distant and another black oak 24 inches in diameter bears north 14 degres west 13 2/10 varas distant. Thence north surveyed 3,898 varas and raised the 5th landmark, from which a post oak 15.
THIRD STAMP FOR THE BIENNIUM
[L.S.]
TWO REALES OF 1834 AND 1835 inches in diameter bears north 81 degrees west 16 7/10 varas distant and another tree of the same kind 13 inches in diameter bears south
83 degrees 31' east 13 varas distant. Thence south 45 degres east surveyed 436 varas to Masters' 4[th] corner, which serves as the 6th[corner] of this survey. Thence north 45 degrees east surveyed 3,113 varas and raised the 7th landmark, from which a black oak 20 inches in diameter bears south 47 degrees east 5 varas distant and a pine
oak 15 inches in diameter bears south 75 degrees 30' west 4 9/10 varas distant. Thence north 89 degrees 54' east surveyed 2,478 1/10varas and raised the 8th and last landmark, from which a post oak 19 inches in diameter bears south 82 degrees east 5 4/10 varas distant and another tree of the same kind 16 inches in diameter bears north
83 degrees west 12 6/10 varas distant. And thence south surveyed 5,391 1/10 varas to the first landmark, thus completing the survey of the league of land you ordered me to have surveyed. Of said tract one labor belogs to the class of arable land and the remaining twenty-four to that of pasture land, its configuration being that which in duplicate I send you here with.Nacogdoches, March 10, 1835.
J. Leplicher, Translator Arthur Henrie, Surveyor
[Rubric] [Rubric]
Decree: Town of Nacogdoches, March 10, 1835.
The survey of the league of land of colonist Joseph C. Teague having been concluded, issue the corresponding title; and of the two plats presented by the surveyor add one to this record of the proceedings and the other to the testimonio, both being signed by me with my rubic. Thus I decided and signed with two witnesses according to law.
Jorge Ant.o Nixon [Rubric] Com.r
Assisting [witness] Assisting [witness]
Joseph Carrier [Rubric] Eligio Albarado
[Rubric]
Title Citizen Jorge Antonio Nixon, special commissioner of the of Supreme Government of the State of Coahuila and Texas for the Posses- and Texas for the distribution and possession of land and the sion: issuance of
titles to the colonists in the Enterprise of Citizen
Jose Vehlein:
Whereas Joseph C Teague has been admitted as a colonist in
the colonization enterprise contracted by the empresario, Citizen Joseph Vehlein, with the Supreme Government of the State on December 21, 1826, and the said Joseph C. Teague having fully established that he is married and that his family consists of seven persons, and
finding in him the requisites prescribed by theColonization Law of March 23, 1825, in conformity with the aforesaid law and the instructions that govern me, in the name of the State I concede to, confer upon, and put the said Joseph C. Teague in real and personal possession of one league of land adjoining Reuben R. Russel's[league], the boundaries of which are delineated on the plat and in the field notes set down by the surveyor, Citizen Arthur Henrie, as is seen in this record of the proceedings. Of the said tract one
labor belongs to the class of arable land and the remaining twenty-four to that of pasture land, which serves as classification for what he shall pay the State according to Article 22 of said law,conceding to him the terms it designates under the penalties there in established; he being notified that within one year he shall construct stone masonry landmarks at each corner of the tract, or at
least fixed and permanent [landmarks], that he shall settle and cultivate it in conformity with the said law, complying scrupulously with what is ordered therein and eslsewhere, and that he shall never convey itin mortmain.
Therefore, exercising teh authority vested in me by the same law and the consequent instructions, I issue the present title and order a testimonio made of it and delivered to the interested party in order that he may possess and enjoy the tract, he, his children, heirs and successors, or whoever from him or from them shall have cause or right. Givien in the Town of Nacogdoches on the tenth day of March,1835, which I sign with two assisting witnesses according to law.Interlined-of the tract-valid-I attest.Jorge An.o Nixon [Rubric] Com.r
Assisting [witness] Assisting [witness]
Joseph Carriere [Rubric] Eligio Albarado
[Rubric] "
Info to be found in Box 48 and Folder 52 (3821) at the Texas General Land Office.
In the book "An Abstract of the Original Titles of Record in the General Land Office with introduction by Mary Lewis Ulmer, reproduced by The Pemberton Press, 1 Pemberton Parkway, Austin, Texas, 1964, pg.133 under "VEHLEIN'S
COLONY", Joseph C. Teague is listed as grantee for title dated March 10, 1835
for 1 league of land situated at "On the waters of the Neches, joins Rueben R.Russell."
In the book "The 1840 Census of the Republic of Texas" edited by Gifford White published 1966 by The Pemberton Press, Austin, Tx., it lists on pg 82 of Houston County, Texas..."Teague Joseph C....1 league of land...T4428...11
cattle". Also listed below him was his father, Magnus Teague showing no land ownership or cattle. On pgs 77-78 lists the Hallmarks, G.W. (George Washington Hallmark, brother to Richard H. Hallmark, uncle of Tabitha Ann Hallmark who married Joseph C. Teague's son, John Skelton Teague. Other Hallmarks listed are D.M., George Hallmark 1 league, T1136 in Crockett, G.H. Hallmark 1 league, John 1 league, James 1 league, W.C. 1 league T500 S177, M.D.T. under 21 S320,A.M. 1 league, Richard 1 S904 2 slaves, Prewitt S640, and J.B. 1 league S1280,all sons of George Washington Hallmark who helped start Crockett, Houston Co.,Tx.)
REFERENCES: J.H. WOOTTERS
CROCKETT PUBLIC LIBRARY PO BOX 1226
708 EAST GOLIAD
CROCKETT, TX. 75835
409-544-3089
HEAD LIBRARIAN 1988 - SALLIE WOODWARD
M-F 9-5; S 10-1
HOUSTON COUNTY HALS
Texas Census, 1820-90 about Joseph C. Teague
Name: Joseph C. Teague
State: TX
County: Houston County
Township: No Township Listed
Year: 1840
Page: NPN
Database: TX Tax List Index, 1840-1849
Birthdate: 1788 Birthplace: North Carolina
Death: Died 1840 in Crockett County, Texas,
JOSEPH C. TEAGUE was the only child of MAGNESS and FRANCES Rogers.
He married his first wife, Polly Chennault, on June 10, 1808, in Madison, Mississippi.
In 1825 he married his second wife, Susannah McClain.
He died in 1840 in Crockett, Texas, at the age of 52.
Children of Joseph C Teague and Polly Chenault
Francis W. Teague,1811
Magness Teague,1813
Children of Joseph C Teague and Susannah McClain
James Marion Teague,1824
William Andrew Jackson Teague,1829
Susan Teague,1831
John Skelton Teague,1834
Brothers And Sisters
Eleanor Teague;1783
Isaac Teague;1786
William Teague;1790
Elizabeth Teague;1791
Robert R Teague;1793
James R Teague;1795
Magness Simonton Teague
At the Texas General Land Office there is record of Survey done for John C.
Teague and given to grantee J.S. Teague no leagues listed, but found on abstract #325 for Bastrop Co., Tx.
In letter from J.D. Teague of Fairfield, Tx., 3-18-98 states...
"Our records show that it is believed that John Skelton (Teague) is buried in Houston Co. His father, Joseph C. (Teague) is buried in Houston Co.(Crockett area).
"Joseph signed the following on June 20, 1831:
"I, Joseph C. Teague, native of the United States of the North was admitted by
the Empresario Green DeWitt to colonize this state (Coahuila) and I am married and have 5 children including one son."
(Note: John Skelton Teague was not born until 1834. This first son was John's
brother, William J. Teague.)
J.D. TEAGUE also said that he had information showing that Joseph C. Teague died when his son, John Skelton Teague, was 6 years old.
I possess a copy of land deed documents which are in Spanish, but was
translated at the Texas General Land Office. It reads as follows...
"THIRD STAMP [Seal of the Treasury FOR THE BIENNIUM
of the Free State of TWO REALES Coahuila and Texas] OF 1834 AND 1835 Petition Honorable Special Commissioner of the Enterprise of Citizen Jose No.
69 Vehlein:
[I,] Joseph C. Teague, native of the United States of the North,with due respect appear before you and say that, attracted by the generous provisions of the colonization laws of this State, I have come with my family, consisting of my wife and six children,to settle in it if you should see fit in view of the attached certificate to admit me as a colonist, conceding to me one league of land in the vacant tracts of the said Enterprise. Therefore, I pray that
you may be pleased to grant me one league of land, as the favor I request, for which I shall live eternally grateful. Nacogdoches,
November 10, 1834.
[s] Joseph C. Teague
Order: Let the interested party proceed with the accompanying certificate to the corresponding Honorable Empresario in order that he may report on the foregoing petition. Nacogdoches, November 11, 1834
Jorge Ant. Nixon [Rubric] Com.r
Report: Honorable Commissioner:
I certify that the interested party is one of the colonists I have introduced in fulfillment of the contract I made with the Supreme Government of the State on December 21, 1826. Therefore,may it please you to issue the order of survey of the land he request. Nacogdoches, November 12, 1834.
[Lacks signature]
Decree: Nacogdoches, November 13, 1834.
[The petition] Having been presented and admitted with the
accompaning documents, the surveyor, Citizen Arthur Henrie, shall have the survey made of the league of land designated by the interested party, provided it be entirely vacant and he shall examine the notes, which are to be translated by Citizen Juan Leplicher, proceedings to follow as may be most suitable. Thus I decided and signed with two witnesses according to law.
Jorge Ant.o Nixon [Rubic]Com.r Assisting [witness] Assisting [witness]Joseph Carriere [Rubric] Eligio Albarado
[Rubric]
Field Honorable Commissioner:
Notes: The tract surveyed for colonisth Joseph C. Teague adjoins that of Reuben R. Russsel, on whose north boundary the first landmark was raised, formed by a mound around a post from which.
a pine 18 inches in diameter bears north 76 degrees east 3 6/10 varas distant and another pine 22 inch3es in diameter
bears south.70 degrees 30' west 9 5/10 varas distant. Thence west surveyed 2,200 varas and raised the 2nd landmark, from which a post oak 19 inches in diameter bears north 33 degrees west 5 4/10 varas distant and a black oak 22 inches in diameter bears south 67 degrees east 8 8/10 varas distant. Thence south surveyed 400 varas and raised the 3rd landmark, from which a black oak 33 inches in diameter bears north 88 degrees east 7 4/10 varas distant and a walnut 12inches in diameter bears north 67 degrees 30' west 5 1/10 [varas]distant. Thence west surveyed 2,800 varas and raised the 4th landmark, from which a black oak 23 inches in diameter bears south 4degrees west 1 9/10 varas distant and another black oak 24 inches in diameter bears north 14 degres west 13 2/10 varas distant. Thence north surveyed 3,898 varas and raised the 5th landmark, from which a post oak 15.
THIRD STAMP FOR THE BIENNIUM
[L.S.]
TWO REALES OF 1834 AND 1835 inches in diameter bears north 81 degrees west 16 7/10 varas distant and another tree of the same kind 13 inches in diameter bears south
83 degrees 31' east 13 varas distant. Thence south 45 degres east surveyed 436 varas to Masters' 4[th] corner, which serves as the 6th[corner] of this survey. Thence north 45 degrees east surveyed 3,113 varas and raised the 7th landmark, from which a black oak 20 inches in diameter bears south 47 degrees east 5 varas distant and a pine
oak 15 inches in diameter bears south 75 degrees 30' west 4 9/10 varas distant. Thence north 89 degrees 54' east surveyed 2,478 1/10varas and raised the 8th and last landmark, from which a post oak 19 inches in diameter bears south 82 degrees east 5 4/10 varas distant and another tree of the same kind 16 inches in diameter bears north
83 degrees west 12 6/10 varas distant. And thence south surveyed 5,391 1/10 varas to the first landmark, thus completing the survey of the league of land you ordered me to have surveyed. Of said tract one labor belogs to the class of arable land and the remaining twenty-four to that of pasture land, its configuration being that which in duplicate I send you here with.Nacogdoches, March 10, 1835.
J. Leplicher, Translator Arthur Henrie, Surveyor
[Rubric] [Rubric]
Decree: Town of Nacogdoches, March 10, 1835.
The survey of the league of land of colonist Joseph C. Teague having been concluded, issue the corresponding title; and of the two plats presented by the surveyor add one to this record of the proceedings and the other to the testimonio, both being signed by me with my rubic. Thus I decided and signed with two witnesses according to law.
Jorge Ant.o Nixon [Rubric] Com.r
Assisting [witness] Assisting [witness]
Joseph Carrier [Rubric] Eligio Albarado
[Rubric]
Title Citizen Jorge Antonio Nixon, special commissioner of the of Supreme Government of the State of Coahuila and Texas for the Posses- and Texas for the distribution and possession of land and the sion: issuance of
titles to the colonists in the Enterprise of Citizen
Jose Vehlein:
Whereas Joseph C Teague has been admitted as a colonist in
the colonization enterprise contracted by the empresario, Citizen Joseph Vehlein, with the Supreme Government of the State on December 21, 1826, and the said Joseph C. Teague having fully established that he is married and that his family consists of seven persons, and
finding in him the requisites prescribed by theColonization Law of March 23, 1825, in conformity with the aforesaid law and the instructions that govern me, in the name of the State I concede to, confer upon, and put the said Joseph C. Teague in real and personal possession of one league of land adjoining Reuben R. Russel's[league], the boundaries of which are delineated on the plat and in the field notes set down by the surveyor, Citizen Arthur Henrie, as is seen in this record of the proceedings. Of the said tract one
labor belongs to the class of arable land and the remaining twenty-four to that of pasture land, which serves as classification for what he shall pay the State according to Article 22 of said law,conceding to him the terms it designates under the penalties there in established; he being notified that within one year he shall construct stone masonry landmarks at each corner of the tract, or at
least fixed and permanent [landmarks], that he shall settle and cultivate it in conformity with the said law, complying scrupulously with what is ordered therein and eslsewhere, and that he shall never convey itin mortmain.
Therefore, exercising teh authority vested in me by the same law and the consequent instructions, I issue the present title and order a testimonio made of it and delivered to the interested party in order that he may possess and enjoy the tract, he, his children, heirs and successors, or whoever from him or from them shall have cause or right. Givien in the Town of Nacogdoches on the tenth day of March,1835, which I sign with two assisting witnesses according to law.Interlined-of the tract-valid-I attest.Jorge An.o Nixon [Rubric] Com.r
Assisting [witness] Assisting [witness]
Joseph Carriere [Rubric] Eligio Albarado
[Rubric] "
Info to be found in Box 48 and Folder 52 (3821) at the Texas General Land Office.
In the book "An Abstract of the Original Titles of Record in the General Land Office with introduction by Mary Lewis Ulmer, reproduced by The Pemberton Press, 1 Pemberton Parkway, Austin, Texas, 1964, pg.133 under "VEHLEIN'S
COLONY", Joseph C. Teague is listed as grantee for title dated March 10, 1835
for 1 league of land situated at "On the waters of the Neches, joins Rueben R.Russell."
In the book "The 1840 Census of the Republic of Texas" edited by Gifford White published 1966 by The Pemberton Press, Austin, Tx., it lists on pg 82 of Houston County, Texas..."Teague Joseph C....1 league of land...T4428...11
cattle". Also listed below him was his father, Magnus Teague showing no land ownership or cattle. On pgs 77-78 lists the Hallmarks, G.W. (George Washington Hallmark, brother to Richard H. Hallmark, uncle of Tabitha Ann Hallmark who married Joseph C. Teague's son, John Skelton Teague. Other Hallmarks listed are D.M., George Hallmark 1 league, T1136 in Crockett, G.H. Hallmark 1 league, John 1 league, James 1 league, W.C. 1 league T500 S177, M.D.T. under 21 S320,A.M. 1 league, Richard 1 S904 2 slaves, Prewitt S640, and J.B. 1 league S1280,all sons of George Washington Hallmark who helped start Crockett, Houston Co.,Tx.)
REFERENCES: J.H. WOOTTERS
CROCKETT PUBLIC LIBRARY PO BOX 1226
708 EAST GOLIAD
CROCKETT, TX. 75835
409-544-3089
HEAD LIBRARIAN 1988 - SALLIE WOODWARD
M-F 9-5; S 10-1
HOUSTON COUNTY HALS
Texas Census, 1820-90 about Joseph C. Teague
Name: Joseph C. Teague
State: TX
County: Houston County
Township: No Township Listed
Year: 1840
Page: NPN
Database: TX Tax List Index, 1840-1849
Joseph C Teague
Birthdate: 1788 Birthplace: North Carolina
Death: Died 1840 in Crockett County, Texas,
JOSEPH C. TEAGUE was the only child of MAGNESS and FRANCES Rogers.
He married his first wife, Polly Chennault, on June 10, 1808, in Madison, Mississippi.
In 1825 he married his second wife, Susannah McClain.
He died in 1840 in Crockett, Texas, at the age of 52.
Children of Joseph C Teague and Polly Chenault
Francis W. Teague,1811
Magness Teague,1813
Children of Joseph C Teague and Susannah McClain
James Marion Teague,1824
William Andrew Jackson Teague,1829
Susan Teague,1831
John Skelton Teague,1834
Brothers And Sisters
Eleanor Teague;1783
Isaac Teague;1786
William Teague;1790
Elizabeth Teague;1791
Robert R Teague;1793
James R Teague;1795
Magness Simonton Teague
At the Texas General Land Office there is record of Survey done for John C.
Teague and given to grantee J.S. Teague no leagues listed, but found on abstract #325 for Bastrop Co., Tx.
In letter from J.D. Teague of Fairfield, Tx., 3-18-98 states...
"Our records show that it is believed that John Skelton (Teague) is buried in Houston Co. His father, Joseph C. (Teague) is buried in Houston Co.(Crockett area).
"Joseph signed the following on June 20, 1831:
"I, Joseph C. Teague, native of the United States of the North was admitted by
the Empresario Green DeWitt to colonize this state (Coahuila) and I am married and have 5 children including one son."
(Note: John Skelton Teague was not born until 1834. This first son was John's
brother, William J. Teague.)
J.D. TEAGUE also said that he had information showing that Joseph C. Teague died when his son, John Skelton Teague, was 6 years old.
I possess a copy of land deed documents which are in Spanish, but was
translated at the Texas General Land Office. It reads as follows...
"THIRD STAMP [Seal of the Treasury FOR THE BIENNIUM
of the Free State of TWO REALES Coahuila and Texas] OF 1834 AND 1835 Petition Honorable Special Commissioner of the Enterprise of Citizen Jose No.
69 Vehlein:
[I,] Joseph C. Teague, native of the United States of the North,with due respect appear before you and say that, attracted by the generous provisions of the colonization laws of this State, I have come with my family, consisting of my wife and six children,to settle in it if you should see fit in view of the attached certificate to admit me as a colonist, conceding to me one league of land in the vacant tracts of the said Enterprise. Therefore, I pray that
you may be pleased to grant me one league of land, as the favor I request, for which I shall live eternally grateful. Nacogdoches,
November 10, 1834.
[s] Joseph C. Teague
Order: Let the interested party proceed with the accompanying certificate to the corresponding Honorable Empresario in order that he may report on the foregoing petition. Nacogdoches, November 11, 1834
Jorge Ant. Nixon [Rubric] Com.r
Report: Honorable Commissioner:
I certify that the interested party is one of the colonists I have introduced in fulfillment of the contract I made with the Supreme Government of the State on December 21, 1826. Therefore,may it please you to issue the order of survey of the land he request. Nacogdoches, November 12, 1834.
[Lacks signature]
Decree: Nacogdoches, November 13, 1834.
[The petition] Having been presented and admitted with the
accompaning documents, the surveyor, Citizen Arthur Henrie, shall have the survey made of the league of land designated by the interested party, provided it be entirely vacant and he shall examine the notes, which are to be translated by Citizen Juan Leplicher, proceedings to follow as may be most suitable. Thus I decided and signed with two witnesses according to law.
Jorge Ant.o Nixon [Rubic]Com.r Assisting [witness] Assisting [witness]Joseph Carriere [Rubric] Eligio Albarado
[Rubric]
Field Honorable Commissioner:
Notes: The tract surveyed for colonisth Joseph C. Teague adjoins that of Reuben R. Russsel, on whose north boundary the first landmark was raised, formed by a mound around a post from which.
a pine 18 inches in diameter bears north 76 degrees east 3 6/10 varas distant and another pine 22 inch3es in diameter
bears south.70 degrees 30' west 9 5/10 varas distant. Thence west surveyed 2,200 varas and raised the 2nd landmark, from which a post oak 19 inches in diameter bears north 33 degrees west 5 4/10 varas distant and a black oak 22 inches in diameter bears south 67 degrees east 8 8/10 varas distant. Thence south surveyed 400 varas and raised the 3rd landmark, from which a black oak 33 inches in diameter bears north 88 degrees east 7 4/10 varas distant and a walnut 12inches in diameter bears north 67 degrees 30' west 5 1/10 [varas]distant. Thence west surveyed 2,800 varas and raised the 4th landmark, from which a black oak 23 inches in diameter bears south 4degrees west 1 9/10 varas distant and another black oak 24 inches in diameter bears north 14 degres west 13 2/10 varas distant. Thence north surveyed 3,898 varas and raised the 5th landmark, from which a post oak 15.
THIRD STAMP FOR THE BIENNIUM
[L.S.]
TWO REALES OF 1834 AND 1835 inches in diameter bears north 81 degrees west 16 7/10 varas distant and another tree of the same kind 13 inches in diameter bears south
83 degrees 31' east 13 varas distant. Thence south 45 degres east surveyed 436 varas to Masters' 4[th] corner, which serves as the 6th[corner] of this survey. Thence north 45 degrees east surveyed 3,113 varas and raised the 7th landmark, from which a black oak 20 inches in diameter bears south 47 degrees east 5 varas distant and a pine
oak 15 inches in diameter bears south 75 degrees 30' west 4 9/10 varas distant. Thence north 89 degrees 54' east surveyed 2,478 1/10varas and raised the 8th and last landmark, from which a post oak 19 inches in diameter bears south 82 degrees east 5 4/10 varas distant and another tree of the same kind 16 inches in diameter bears north
83 degrees west 12 6/10 varas distant. And thence south surveyed 5,391 1/10 varas to the first landmark, thus completing the survey of the league of land you ordered me to have surveyed. Of said tract one labor belogs to the class of arable land and the remaining twenty-four to that of pasture land, its configuration being that which in duplicate I send you here with.Nacogdoches, March 10, 1835.
J. Leplicher, Translator Arthur Henrie, Surveyor
[Rubric] [Rubric]
Decree: Town of Nacogdoches, March 10, 1835.
The survey of the league of land of colonist Joseph C. Teague having been concluded, issue the corresponding title; and of the two plats presented by the surveyor add one to this record of the proceedings and the other to the testimonio, both being signed by me with my rubic. Thus I decided and signed with two witnesses according to law.
Jorge Ant.o Nixon [Rubric] Com.r
Assisting [witness] Assisting [witness]
Joseph Carrier [Rubric] Eligio Albarado
[Rubric]
Title Citizen Jorge Antonio Nixon, special commissioner of the of Supreme Government of the State of Coahuila and Texas for the Posses- and Texas for the distribution and possession of land and the sion: issuance of
titles to the colonists in the Enterprise of Citizen
Jose Vehlein:
Whereas Joseph C Teague has been admitted as a colonist in
the colonization enterprise contracted by the empresario, Citizen Joseph Vehlein, with the Supreme Government of the State on December 21, 1826, and the said Joseph C. Teague having fully established that he is married and that his family consists of seven persons, and
finding in him the requisites prescribed by theColonization Law of March 23, 1825, in conformity with the aforesaid law and the instructions that govern me, in the name of the State I concede to, confer upon, and put the said Joseph C. Teague in real and personal possession of one league of land adjoining Reuben R. Russel's[league], the boundaries of which are delineated on the plat and in the field notes set down by the surveyor, Citizen Arthur Henrie, as is seen in this record of the proceedings. Of the said tract one
labor belongs to the class of arable land and the remaining twenty-four to that of pasture land, which serves as classification for what he shall pay the State according to Article 22 of said law,conceding to him the terms it designates under the penalties there in established; he being notified that within one year he shall construct stone masonry landmarks at each corner of the tract, or at
least fixed and permanent [landmarks], that he shall settle and cultivate it in conformity with the said law, complying scrupulously with what is ordered therein and eslsewhere, and that he shall never convey itin mortmain.
Therefore, exercising teh authority vested in me by the same law and the consequent instructions, I issue the present title and order a testimonio made of it and delivered to the interested party in order that he may possess and enjoy the tract, he, his children, heirs and successors, or whoever from him or from them shall have cause or right. Givien in the Town of Nacogdoches on the tenth day of March,1835, which I sign with two assisting witnesses according to law.Interlined-of the tract-valid-I attest.Jorge An.o Nixon [Rubric] Com.r
Assisting [witness] Assisting [witness]
Joseph Carriere [Rubric] Eligio Albarado
[Rubric] "
Info to be found in Box 48 and Folder 52 (3821) at the Texas General Land Office.
In the book "An Abstract of the Original Titles of Record in the General Land Office with introduction by Mary Lewis Ulmer, reproduced by The Pemberton Press, 1 Pemberton Parkway, Austin, Texas, 1964, pg.133 under "VEHLEIN'S
COLONY", Joseph C. Teague is listed as grantee for title dated March 10, 1835
for 1 league of land situated at "On the waters of the Neches, joins Rueben R.Russell."
In the book "The 1840 Census of the Republic of Texas" edited by Gifford White published 1966 by The Pemberton Press, Austin, Tx., it lists on pg 82 of Houston County, Texas..."Teague Joseph C....1 league of land...T4428...11
cattle". Also listed below him was his father, Magnus Teague showing no land ownership or cattle. On pgs 77-78 lists the Hallmarks, G.W. (George Washington Hallmark, brother to Richard H. Hallmark, uncle of Tabitha Ann Hallmark who married Joseph C. Teague's son, John Skelton Teague. Other Hallmarks listed are D.M., George Hallmark 1 league, T1136 in Crockett, G.H. Hallmark 1 league, John 1 league, James 1 league, W.C. 1 league T500 S177, M.D.T. under 21 S320,A.M. 1 league, Richard 1 S904 2 slaves, Prewitt S640, and J.B. 1 league S1280,all sons of George Washington Hallmark who helped start Crockett, Houston Co.,Tx.)
REFERENCES: J.H. WOOTTERS
CROCKETT PUBLIC LIBRARY PO BOX 1226
708 EAST GOLIAD
CROCKETT, TX. 75835
409-544-3089
HEAD LIBRARIAN 1988 - SALLIE WOODWARD
M-F 9-5; S 10-1
HOUSTON COUNTY HALS
Texas Census, 1820-90 about Joseph C. Teague
Name: Joseph C. Teague
State: TX
County: Houston County
Township: No Township Listed
Year: 1840
Page: NPN
Database: TX Tax List Index, 1840-1849
Birthdate: 1788 Birthplace: North Carolina
Death: Died 1840 in Crockett County, Texas,
JOSEPH C. TEAGUE was the only child of MAGNESS and FRANCES Rogers.
He married his first wife, Polly Chennault, on June 10, 1808, in Madison, Mississippi.
In 1825 he married his second wife, Susannah McClain.
He died in 1840 in Crockett, Texas, at the age of 52.
Children of Joseph C Teague and Polly Chenault
Francis W. Teague,1811
Magness Teague,1813
Children of Joseph C Teague and Susannah McClain
James Marion Teague,1824
William Andrew Jackson Teague,1829
Susan Teague,1831
John Skelton Teague,1834
Brothers And Sisters
Eleanor Teague;1783
Isaac Teague;1786
William Teague;1790
Elizabeth Teague;1791
Robert R Teague;1793
James R Teague;1795
Magness Simonton Teague
At the Texas General Land Office there is record of Survey done for John C.
Teague and given to grantee J.S. Teague no leagues listed, but found on abstract #325 for Bastrop Co., Tx.
In letter from J.D. Teague of Fairfield, Tx., 3-18-98 states...
"Our records show that it is believed that John Skelton (Teague) is buried in Houston Co. His father, Joseph C. (Teague) is buried in Houston Co.(Crockett area).
"Joseph signed the following on June 20, 1831:
"I, Joseph C. Teague, native of the United States of the North was admitted by
the Empresario Green DeWitt to colonize this state (Coahuila) and I am married and have 5 children including one son."
(Note: John Skelton Teague was not born until 1834. This first son was John's
brother, William J. Teague.)
J.D. TEAGUE also said that he had information showing that Joseph C. Teague died when his son, John Skelton Teague, was 6 years old.
I possess a copy of land deed documents which are in Spanish, but was
translated at the Texas General Land Office. It reads as follows...
"THIRD STAMP [Seal of the Treasury FOR THE BIENNIUM
of the Free State of TWO REALES Coahuila and Texas] OF 1834 AND 1835 Petition Honorable Special Commissioner of the Enterprise of Citizen Jose No.
69 Vehlein:
[I,] Joseph C. Teague, native of the United States of the North,with due respect appear before you and say that, attracted by the generous provisions of the colonization laws of this State, I have come with my family, consisting of my wife and six children,to settle in it if you should see fit in view of the attached certificate to admit me as a colonist, conceding to me one league of land in the vacant tracts of the said Enterprise. Therefore, I pray that
you may be pleased to grant me one league of land, as the favor I request, for which I shall live eternally grateful. Nacogdoches,
November 10, 1834.
[s] Joseph C. Teague
Order: Let the interested party proceed with the accompanying certificate to the corresponding Honorable Empresario in order that he may report on the foregoing petition. Nacogdoches, November 11, 1834
Jorge Ant. Nixon [Rubric] Com.r
Report: Honorable Commissioner:
I certify that the interested party is one of the colonists I have introduced in fulfillment of the contract I made with the Supreme Government of the State on December 21, 1826. Therefore,may it please you to issue the order of survey of the land he request. Nacogdoches, November 12, 1834.
[Lacks signature]
Decree: Nacogdoches, November 13, 1834.
[The petition] Having been presented and admitted with the
accompaning documents, the surveyor, Citizen Arthur Henrie, shall have the survey made of the league of land designated by the interested party, provided it be entirely vacant and he shall examine the notes, which are to be translated by Citizen Juan Leplicher, proceedings to follow as may be most suitable. Thus I decided and signed with two witnesses according to law.
Jorge Ant.o Nixon [Rubic]Com.r Assisting [witness] Assisting [witness]Joseph Carriere [Rubric] Eligio Albarado
[Rubric]
Field Honorable Commissioner:
Notes: The tract surveyed for colonisth Joseph C. Teague adjoins that of Reuben R. Russsel, on whose north boundary the first landmark was raised, formed by a mound around a post from which.
a pine 18 inches in diameter bears north 76 degrees east 3 6/10 varas distant and another pine 22 inch3es in diameter
bears south.70 degrees 30' west 9 5/10 varas distant. Thence west surveyed 2,200 varas and raised the 2nd landmark, from which a post oak 19 inches in diameter bears north 33 degrees west 5 4/10 varas distant and a black oak 22 inches in diameter bears south 67 degrees east 8 8/10 varas distant. Thence south surveyed 400 varas and raised the 3rd landmark, from which a black oak 33 inches in diameter bears north 88 degrees east 7 4/10 varas distant and a walnut 12inches in diameter bears north 67 degrees 30' west 5 1/10 [varas]distant. Thence west surveyed 2,800 varas and raised the 4th landmark, from which a black oak 23 inches in diameter bears south 4degrees west 1 9/10 varas distant and another black oak 24 inches in diameter bears north 14 degres west 13 2/10 varas distant. Thence north surveyed 3,898 varas and raised the 5th landmark, from which a post oak 15.
THIRD STAMP FOR THE BIENNIUM
[L.S.]
TWO REALES OF 1834 AND 1835 inches in diameter bears north 81 degrees west 16 7/10 varas distant and another tree of the same kind 13 inches in diameter bears south
83 degrees 31' east 13 varas distant. Thence south 45 degres east surveyed 436 varas to Masters' 4[th] corner, which serves as the 6th[corner] of this survey. Thence north 45 degrees east surveyed 3,113 varas and raised the 7th landmark, from which a black oak 20 inches in diameter bears south 47 degrees east 5 varas distant and a pine
oak 15 inches in diameter bears south 75 degrees 30' west 4 9/10 varas distant. Thence north 89 degrees 54' east surveyed 2,478 1/10varas and raised the 8th and last landmark, from which a post oak 19 inches in diameter bears south 82 degrees east 5 4/10 varas distant and another tree of the same kind 16 inches in diameter bears north
83 degrees west 12 6/10 varas distant. And thence south surveyed 5,391 1/10 varas to the first landmark, thus completing the survey of the league of land you ordered me to have surveyed. Of said tract one labor belogs to the class of arable land and the remaining twenty-four to that of pasture land, its configuration being that which in duplicate I send you here with.Nacogdoches, March 10, 1835.
J. Leplicher, Translator Arthur Henrie, Surveyor
[Rubric] [Rubric]
Decree: Town of Nacogdoches, March 10, 1835.
The survey of the league of land of colonist Joseph C. Teague having been concluded, issue the corresponding title; and of the two plats presented by the surveyor add one to this record of the proceedings and the other to the testimonio, both being signed by me with my rubic. Thus I decided and signed with two witnesses according to law.
Jorge Ant.o Nixon [Rubric] Com.r
Assisting [witness] Assisting [witness]
Joseph Carrier [Rubric] Eligio Albarado
[Rubric]
Title Citizen Jorge Antonio Nixon, special commissioner of the of Supreme Government of the State of Coahuila and Texas for the Posses- and Texas for the distribution and possession of land and the sion: issuance of
titles to the colonists in the Enterprise of Citizen
Jose Vehlein:
Whereas Joseph C Teague has been admitted as a colonist in
the colonization enterprise contracted by the empresario, Citizen Joseph Vehlein, with the Supreme Government of the State on December 21, 1826, and the said Joseph C. Teague having fully established that he is married and that his family consists of seven persons, and
finding in him the requisites prescribed by theColonization Law of March 23, 1825, in conformity with the aforesaid law and the instructions that govern me, in the name of the State I concede to, confer upon, and put the said Joseph C. Teague in real and personal possession of one league of land adjoining Reuben R. Russel's[league], the boundaries of which are delineated on the plat and in the field notes set down by the surveyor, Citizen Arthur Henrie, as is seen in this record of the proceedings. Of the said tract one
labor belongs to the class of arable land and the remaining twenty-four to that of pasture land, which serves as classification for what he shall pay the State according to Article 22 of said law,conceding to him the terms it designates under the penalties there in established; he being notified that within one year he shall construct stone masonry landmarks at each corner of the tract, or at
least fixed and permanent [landmarks], that he shall settle and cultivate it in conformity with the said law, complying scrupulously with what is ordered therein and eslsewhere, and that he shall never convey itin mortmain.
Therefore, exercising teh authority vested in me by the same law and the consequent instructions, I issue the present title and order a testimonio made of it and delivered to the interested party in order that he may possess and enjoy the tract, he, his children, heirs and successors, or whoever from him or from them shall have cause or right. Givien in the Town of Nacogdoches on the tenth day of March,1835, which I sign with two assisting witnesses according to law.Interlined-of the tract-valid-I attest.Jorge An.o Nixon [Rubric] Com.r
Assisting [witness] Assisting [witness]
Joseph Carriere [Rubric] Eligio Albarado
[Rubric] "
Info to be found in Box 48 and Folder 52 (3821) at the Texas General Land Office.
In the book "An Abstract of the Original Titles of Record in the General Land Office with introduction by Mary Lewis Ulmer, reproduced by The Pemberton Press, 1 Pemberton Parkway, Austin, Texas, 1964, pg.133 under "VEHLEIN'S
COLONY", Joseph C. Teague is listed as grantee for title dated March 10, 1835
for 1 league of land situated at "On the waters of the Neches, joins Rueben R.Russell."
In the book "The 1840 Census of the Republic of Texas" edited by Gifford White published 1966 by The Pemberton Press, Austin, Tx., it lists on pg 82 of Houston County, Texas..."Teague Joseph C....1 league of land...T4428...11
cattle". Also listed below him was his father, Magnus Teague showing no land ownership or cattle. On pgs 77-78 lists the Hallmarks, G.W. (George Washington Hallmark, brother to Richard H. Hallmark, uncle of Tabitha Ann Hallmark who married Joseph C. Teague's son, John Skelton Teague. Other Hallmarks listed are D.M., George Hallmark 1 league, T1136 in Crockett, G.H. Hallmark 1 league, John 1 league, James 1 league, W.C. 1 league T500 S177, M.D.T. under 21 S320,A.M. 1 league, Richard 1 S904 2 slaves, Prewitt S640, and J.B. 1 league S1280,all sons of George Washington Hallmark who helped start Crockett, Houston Co.,Tx.)
REFERENCES: J.H. WOOTTERS
CROCKETT PUBLIC LIBRARY PO BOX 1226
708 EAST GOLIAD
CROCKETT, TX. 75835
409-544-3089
HEAD LIBRARIAN 1988 - SALLIE WOODWARD
M-F 9-5; S 10-1
HOUSTON COUNTY HALS
Texas Census, 1820-90 about Joseph C. Teague
Name: Joseph C. Teague
State: TX
County: Houston County
Township: No Township Listed
Year: 1840
Page: NPN
Database: TX Tax List Index, 1840-1849
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