"Land For Sale," Telegraph and Texas Register, December 9, 1837

Summary: An ad by John Rice Jones saying he was selling several tracts of land on Cummin's creek granted to him by the Mexican government seven years earlier. Some of the land was fenced, had a gin and other buildings, peach trees, etc. Would also sell a sixteen year old male slave. Asked for cash for each sale.

JOHN RICE JONES offers for sale one league of land lying on Cummin's creek, ten or twelve miles from the Colorado river. This tract was granted to him by the Mexican government as a colonist, in 1830; is thought to be the most valuable league on the creek, and has some considerable improvements on it.

ALSO:--One quarter of a league of land, lying near Groces Retreat, granted by the Mexican government to James Darwin, deceased, upon which there is a first rate gin and other buildings; about 50 acres under fence and an orchard of excellent peach trees.

ALSO:--The farm on which he lives in Baliey's prairie, on which there is a frame dwelling, gin, &c., and 200 acres of land under fence.

ALSO:--Several building lots, in the flourishing town of Marion, and one ten acre out lot.

ALSO:--An African negro boy, about the age of sixteen years; all or any part of the above property may [illegible word] and cheap for cash. JOHN RICE JONES.

Nov. 18, 1837. 102-t[sic]

Source Copy Consulted: "Land For Sale," Telegraph and Texas Register, December 9, 1837, p. 3