Las Sabinas, Volume 4, Number 1, July 1978 Page: 23
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records. These deeds say: "For love and affection and one dol-
lar". The original grant of land to West in Montgomery County
is giving lawyers a "tough job". In selling portions of this
land the deeds say: "I sell fifty acres of land of my grant".
No one knows which fifty, so each deed must be signed by all
living heirs of Clairborne West and there are, so we understand,
more than a hundred. There's another deed recording the sale
of "Gipp, a negro slave, of dark complexion, aged about sixteen
years," to G. D. Day of Montgomery County, Texas for $460. This
deed of sales was dated June 19, 1848. Another deed of sales is
to J. R. King and here Mr. West receives $1000 for Levi, a dark
complected negro of eighteen years of age, and West says: "I
also warrant said negro man to be sound in body and mind and to
be of good character." From the above there seems to have been
quite a difference in the sale price of different negroes, sold
in Guadalupe County before the Civil War.
In 1855, Clairborne West recorded his cattle brand in the
records of Guadalupe County and he really selected a good one.
It is H2.
Clairborne West is buried in the southwest corner of the old
enclosure at the Riverside Cemetery, and Mrs. Florinda West is by
his side, with Geo. W. Day to the left of Mrs. West. Day was the
first husband of Mrs. Florinda West.
His name is not upon the scroll of those who died at the
Alamo; nor did he fight at San Jacinto. But as a veteran, he
of San Felipe, of Washington on the Brazos, of long hours of23.
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Orange County Historical Society (Tex.). Las Sabinas, Volume 4, Number 1, July 1978, periodical, January 1978; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth255383/m1/31/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Orange County Historical Society.