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es historic matagorda texas maps paintings relics photography maps of matagorda bay maps surveys charts plats survey of the town of matagorda texas published 1838 stephen f austin s island james selkirk s 1839 map of matagorda county 1840 plan of matagorda and lavaca bay by fisher ames fisher via heritage auctions matagorda texas 1839 john g clead 1863 showing points of texas coastal occupation under maj gen n p banks 1864 william von rosenberg 1879 map of matagorda county texas held at the general land office walsh w c william c appell p f matagorda county map 1896 1896 texas general land office p f appell draftsman matagorda 1929 us army corps of engineers 1933 matagorda texas glo 1936 baxter island and accretions on lower colorado river matagorda county texas john f rother surveyor engineer 1939 texas state highway department publisher 1940 1945 conrad m blucher surveyor engineer gulf oil corp fishguide matagorda 1950 gulf oil corp fishguide matagorda 1960 maps paintings relics historic matagorda texas paintings view of matagorda taken from the bay sept 1860 drawn from nature by helmut holtz date 1861 thomas flintoff matagorda bay texas may 22 1852 thomas flintoff matagorda texas may 29 1852 thomas flintoff front street matagorda texas may 25 1852 matagorda bay pictorial letter sheet by helmuth holtzl 1860 the views show six buildings with eagle and flags at top of page thomas flintoff masonic hall matagorda texas may 21 1852 pelicans by the matagorda bay 1966 edward muegge buck schiwetz via heritage auctions relics historic matagorda texas no 1 in full col howard dr sir the bearer wm baxter is on company as commander of 6 persons on their way to labahia and are out of provisions in san felipe and this places the merchants furnish such on their way to camp which will no doubt be re elias r wightman s surveying compass town of matagorda lot block certificate signed this note was issued in 1840 and is the only example of this design that we are aware of today this 2 note has interesting vignettes of a youth on horseback a sailing ship and a maiden standing in front of what appears to be a hybrid texas flag two dollars matagorda county issued stephen f austin signed texian loan certificate views of the past historic matagorda texas title colorado river creator secrest frank b frank baldwin 1909 souce degolyer library southern methodist university survey of the town of matagorda texas published 1838 early plat map of matagorda the third oldest town in texas remarkable early plat map of matagorda texas almost certainly drawn by elias wightman with certification in the hand of s rhodes fisher the map provides significant detail including streets town lots and public buildings and spaces lots are numbered and color coded with larger tracts identified by owner the map includes a lengthy certification in the hand of s rhoads fisher this example was almost certainly drawn by elias wightman a surveyor whom steven f austin had brought to texas in 1827 and who had originally laid out the town of matagorda in 1828 fisher s certification of the map provides we the undersigned proprietors of the town of matagorda hereby certify that this is the true and original map plat survey or chart of the town and town league of matagorda according to which and the various subdivisions herein represented we have mutually partitioned the property among the proprietors or as a board of proprietors sold donated or otherwise disposed of and that the same was before us when this general schedule of sales donations partitions or other appropriations were made out adopted and signed and as such we sign this each in the presence of the other and deposit it in the office of the clerk of the court of the county of matagorda in virtue of a resolution passed by the board of proprietors this twenty sixth day of april eighteen hundred and thirty eight signed by s rhoads fisher seth ingram president of the board of proprietors d c cady secretary i r lewis and elias wightman austin the father of texas stephen f austin s island stephen f austin to elias wightman 03 13 1830 summary instructions for surveying memorandum for mr weigh t man surveyor you will lay off four quarters of a league next below h h league on the west side of colorado and the balance on both sides of the river below betts on the east side and below the above mentioned quarters on the west will be laid of in league tracts each league will not have more than two thirds of a league in width in a straight line front on the river and the quarters in propor tion to their area i also wish the exact quantity ascertained in each of the large islands including the prairie island between the east and west fork the leagues on trespalacios must join those on the colorado where it can be done so as not to reduce the fronts on each river to less than three thousand varas should there be a vacancy in the middle it can be laid off in quarters or in leagues as may best suit i think it will be the best plan to lay off on one connected plot all the meandering and then lay down all the tracts on colorado and on the east side of trespalacios the west side of trespalacios may remain for the present as there are no tracts taken there at this time the land on prairie creek and cany below peyton and curtis and also on the bay east of this you can lay off in conformity with the printed regulations and in quarters or leagues as it may be wanted please send up the notes of all the colorado tracts as soon as possible for they are generally all taken up and i wish to finish the deeds matagorda march 13 1830 s f austin rubric you will of course be particular that there is no interference with the colorado and prairie creek tracts and regulate the fronts accordingly should it be necessary to vary from the rule above laid down to avoid an interference a district can be laid off for surveying on san jacinto to commence at the mouth of buffalo bayou thence up the same north side to its head thence northwardly so as to include all the waters of san jacinto on the west side of its main branch up to its head mr weightman can have this district if he wishes it by applying to me or to williams at my office should i be absent within six weeks from this time matagorda march 13 1830 s f austin rubric the above is subject to the approval of the commissioner general s f austin rubric source eugene barker ed annual report of the american historical association for the year 1919 the austin papers washington d c government printing office 1924 3 vols vol 1 part 2 pp 341 342 sephen f austin to elias wightman 03 13 1830 elias r wightman summarized from scraps of early texas history by mary sherwood helm according to austin colony records wightman arrived in texas by jul 1825 and received title to a league of land on 28 oct 1830 as one of the old 300 original colonists elias r wightman one of the founders of matagorda and a stephen f austin old three hundred colonist was born early in 1792 in herkimer county new york one of eleven children of esther randall and baptist minister benjamin wightman wightman was involved in establishment of the town of matagorda where he operated a salt factory and was a teacher in oct 1829 he surveyed the town of marion on the brazos river he married mary sherwood who married meredith helm after his death in 1841 wightman was an official surveyor commissioned by austin in 1830 and was probably in the dewitt colony during the 1828 census in that capacity or on a cattle trading mission he held 30 head of cattle at the time of census in 1828 elias returned to new york to recruit settlers for matagorda and with 39 persons many of them relatives came to the site of the proposed town of matagorda beginning nov 1828 at the head of the alleghany river the party journeyed down the ohio and mississippi rivers to new orleans reaching new orleans just before christmas they chartered the schooner little zoe to matagorda bay reaching the mouth of the colorado river on 27 jan 1829 austin commissioned wightman as a surveyor in dec 1830 and on the 6th he was appointed municipal surveyor for the district of mina wightman s homeplace was on the matagorda peninsula to the east of caney creek his field notes and map shows the town of manhattan at the mouth of caney creek and what is known presently as east bay was shown as manhattan bay elias r wightman s compass wightman lived in matagorda county until 1841 serving as a surveyor of the county and and taking part in the life of the young republic he died in covington kentucky in 1841 the colorado gazette and advertiser matagorda december 18 1841 reported his obituary we regret to learn that our old friend elias r wightman esq died a few weeks since in covington kentucky whither he had gone to take possession of an extensive property for which he had sold his residence in this county judge wightman came to texas as a surveyor to the first band of colonists brought out by stephen f austin and continued a resident of this county until within a month or two of his lamented death he has left a large circle of relatives and friends among us who feel this sad dispensation of providence most sensibly inscription on monument elias r wightman died october 26 1841 age 49 years 9 months being born in 1792 he had a heart to contrive a heart to conceive a hand to execute angels could do not more the field notes written by elias r wightman during the year 1838 consists of surveys and notes of practically all land in matagorda county elias r wightman was a surveyor in texas for stephen f austin in the early days of the austin colony circa 1827 he is enumerated among the old 300 shoe were the initial colonists of the moses stephen f austin colony in what was then the state of coahuila tejas in mexico the following is excerpted from a texas state historical publication cited below wightman elias r 1792 1841 wightman taught school in new york eventually marrying one of his students mary sherwood see helm mary s w whose book scraps of early texas history 1884 includes gleanings from her husband s surveying field notes wightman was in texas as early as 1824 and by july 1825 he had been appointed by stephen f austin as one of the appraisers of goods damaged on the schooner lady of the lake in august 1826 wightman and several other persons petitioned austin for the establishment of the town of matagorda and wightman himself petitioned for a league of land on the east side of the colorado river as one of the old three hundred colonists he received title to a sitio of land in the area of present matagorda county on may 25 1827 in 1828 austin sent wightman and david g burnet to the united states to help recruit settlers for his colony wightman went to new york beginning his return journey south in november 1828 with approximately fifty to sixty colonists including his parents whose 1830 burials the first in the matagorda cemetery are commemorated by a texas historical commission historic marker traveling by wagon train river and finally from new orleans on the schooner little zoe they reached the mouth of the colorado and the small fort built there for the protection of the incoming settlers in late january 1829 wightman may have been at an 1829 meeting in san felipe de austin to discuss the founding of a masonic lodge there and by august 1829 he had been elected surveyor for matagorda where he had built his home by that october he had surveyed the town of marion on the brazos river around that time he was also corresponding with austin about operating a salt works and had agreed to teach school at matagorda for a year wightman was working for austin as a surveyor in 1830 and the austin papers contain voluminous correspondence between the empresario and the surveyor the wightman family participated in the runaway scrape in 1836 in 1837 wightman was among the first justices of the peace elected in newly organized matagorda county and the following year was involved with the caney navigation company a group organized to improve transportation on caney creek by clearing its channel and adding connecting canals in october 1840 wightman and other citizens of matagorda signed a letter to mirabeau buonaparte lamar recommending john delap as successor to silas dinsmore as county judge wightman died on october 26 1841 shortly after he had sold his matagorda county land and moved to his new property in covington kentucky in the 1980s some of wightman s field notes were housed at the matagorda county clerk s office and in the matagorda county museum in bay city bibliography eugene c barker ed the austin papers 3 vols washington gpo 1924 28 eugene c barker ed minutes of the ayuntamiento of san felipe de austin 1828 1832 12 parts southwestern historical quarterly 21 24 january 1918 october 1920 lester g bugbee the old three hundred a list of settlers in austin s first colony quarterly of the texas state historical association 1 october 1897 charles adams gulick jr harriet smither et al eds the papers of mirabeau buonaparte lamar 6 vols austin texas state library 1920 27 rpt austin pemberton press 1968 mcallister junior historians research papers on historic matagorda bay city texas 1973 matagorda county historical commission historic matagorda county 3 vols 1986 88 info courtesy of linnr 47874140 wightman elias r 1792 1841 elias r wightman one of the founders of matagorda and a stephen f austin old three hundred colonist was born early in 1792 in herkimer county new york one of eleven children of esther randall and baptist minister benjamin wightman wightman taught school in new york eventually marrying one of his students mary sherwood see helm mary s w whose book scraps of early texas history 1884 includes gleanings from her husband s surveying field notes wightman was in texas as early as 1824 and by july 1825 he had been appointed by stephen f austin as one of the appraisers of goods damaged on the schooner lady of the lake in august 1826 wightman and several other persons petitioned austin for the establishment of the town of matagorda and wightman himself petitioned for a league of land on the east side of the colorado river as one of the old three hundred colonists he received title to a sitio of land in the area of present matagorda county on may 25 1827 in 1828 austin sent wightman and david g burnet to the united states to help recruit settlers for his colony wightman went to new york beginning his return journey south in november 1828 with approximately fifty to sixty colonists including his parents whose 1830 burials the first in the matagorda cemetery are commemorated by a texas historical commission historic marker traveling by wagon train river and finally from new orleans on the schooner little zoe they reached the mouth of the colorado and the small fort built there for the protection of the incoming settlers in late january 1829 wightman may have been at an 1829 meeting in san felipe de austin ...