Survey of Mission San Antonio de valero, 1849

[neferetus]

Here's a little something from Ted Cole. Thanks, Ted:

This was a survey done for Samuel A. Maverick of Mission San Antonio De Valero in 1849! :shock: It is a significant document! I broke it down to paragraphs! On the link below you will see a plat of the area surveyed at the bottom of the page!

www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/adp/archives/documents/maverick.html

Comments are welcome!

TED COLE....aka....Cole_blooded
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Survey for
Samuel A. Maverick
of an Area of Mission San Antonio de Valero
December 1849

Plat and Field Notes of a Lot or Tract of land situated in the forks of the Ditch running past the Church of the Alamo to the Villita, and of that running on the West side of the Old Mission of the Alamo or San Antonio de Valero, said Lot surrounding the Northern portion of the Square or Plaza of the aforesaid Mission - surveyed for S. A. Maverick -

Beginning at the N.W. corner of the Old Convent or residence of the Padres of the Mission - Thence along with wall of said building, S. 78í° E. 7.08 varas (19 ft. 8 in.) to its N.E. corner and 53 varas to a point in a line with the East wall of the Old Convent Yard which ran from the N.E. corner of the Chapel & Vestry building (on the North side of the Church) in the direction of N.E. - Thence running in a line with said old wall and towards it S. 11° W. 30½ varas to the N.E. corner of the old Convent yard -

Thence S. 78í° E., 26¼ vas. To a stake on the Villita Ditch - Thence up said Ditch N. 46½° E., 26½ vas. - N 23 2/3° E. 49 vas. - N. 50¼° E., 84 vas. to a stake in the junction of this Ditch, and that running North and West of the buildings of the Mission - Thence down the latter ditch, N. 85° W. 19½ vas. to a Willow - N. 81° W. 139 varas to a point in a line with East wall of the old Convent - Thence S. 75 1/8 W. 87¼ vas. To the N.W. corner of the Muralla or outer wall of the Mission, which is about 4 vas. from the ditch -

Thence keeping down the same ditch S. 64í° W. 30¼ vas. S. 10í° W. 30 vas. & S. 2½° W. 38 vas. to a stake on the edge of ditch - Thence with North line of a lot and house of Dª Jesusita Treviño and passing along the North side of Chimney of said house S. 79 5/8° E., 62.80 varas, to the N.W. exterior corner of the Mission Wall or Muralla, already mentioned - Thence along North side of Said Wall S. 75 5/8° E., 57.90 vas. - Thence running across said wall (which is about 1.08 vara thick) and six varas beyond it, to cover the building site of Carmel de las Reyes S. 10° W., 7.08 vas. -

Thence S. 75_° E., 20 vas. to the N.E. corner of the Mission Square - Thence along the East side of said square, S. 10° W. - 52.4 vas. to the beginning but leaving a passage 2 varas wide on the North side of the old Convent, by which access may be had to the yard on the East side of Said Convent, from the square of the Mission.

San Antonio F. Giraud, City Sr. Br.
Dec. 1849

Recorded in City Survey Book, pp. 114 & 115. F. Giraud

[Bromhead24]

That was very interesting..

[seguin]

Did they find some interesting artifacts?

[neferetus]

seguin said:

Did they find some interesting artifacts?

I believe Maverick was having the area surveyed, as it was his intention to build his homestead there. Here's one of George Nelson's Long Barrack window paintings that shows the Maverick homestead on Alamo Plaza.



To the far right of this George Nelson painting of the west wall, as seen from the Long Barrack, the Sam Maverick homestead stands with the large pecan tree shown towering over its roofline. The pecan tree was felled in a storm in the mid 1850's, damaging Maverick's roof.

[JasonTow]

Fascinating survey! Thanks for sharing!