"Soon after my [Adam Rankin Johnson] arrival [in Texas* about 1854], I became acquainted with a party of surveyors and attached myself to them, thinking it the best opportunity I would find in a new, sparsely-settled country to make a living, and reflecting that increasing immigration would bring many men into the community, and that perhaps the majority of these would acquire ownership of land which a surveyor would have to lay off."
*Burnet County, then called Hamilton Valley
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| Burnet County, Texas, Source (Library of Congress) |
Pressler's map of the state of Texas
Galveston, Tex. : Jones, Root & Co., 1862.
Notes- "General Land Office, Austin, November 18th 1857."
[See Link For Map Of Texas]
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