[Texas]: [Mississippi]:

[Power of Attorney Document Assigning an Alabama Lawyer to Represent Mississippi Heirs Regarding Their Inheritance of Texas Lands]

Monroe County, Ms: December 17, 1851. [3]pp., on a single folded sheet, with a partially-printed document, completed in manuscript, affixed to third page. Item #12761

An interesting document relating to lands in the former Republic of Texas owned by Burwell B. Boling, who has passed away. His sister Susan H. Boling Blanton, her husband Burwell Blanton, and brother Samuel H. Boling here appoint George Giohan of Lowndes County, Alabama to represent them in Texas and to locate land warrants and other documentation of Boling's properties. The power of attorney is signed by all three of the next of kin, and attested to by two officials in Mississippi. A certification of the Justice of the Peace is affixed to the third page. While the document is rather straightforward, it involves two names that are rather prominent in Texas -- Blanton and Boling. According to records on Ancestry, descendants of Susan Blanton settled around Galveston, and may be related to the modern Blanton family whose philanthropy in Texas is well known.

Price: $250