Texas General Land Office Records
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1100)
TEXAS GLO records for L. S. Mooring (summary):
- Goliad district 000005: granted certificate for 320 acres in Goliad Co. on 4/7/1845 (stating that he arrived in December 1841)
- Refugio district 000068: sells original Goliad district land grant (320 acres) on 6/19/1845 (shows original grant form)
Grimes County land:
- Montgomery district 000036 640 acres bought in 1859
- Montgomery district 000246 320 acres bought in 1859
- Montgomery district 000407 320 acres bought in 1860
- Montgomery district 000421 135 acres bought in 1862
- Montgomery district 000079 160 acres bought in 1863
TEXAS GLO records records for Guilford M. Mooring (summary):
- Nacogdoches district: granted certificate #262 on 4/7/1845 for 640 acres as a married man (stating he arrived in December 1841)
- Nacogdoches district 1097: sells original Nacogdoches district land grant certificate (640 acres) on 9/20/1848
TEXAS GLO records for J. S. Mooring (summary):
- Confederate Scrip #1257 dated 11/23/1881 for 1280 acres on "any vacant, unsettled, and unappropriated public domain"
- Scrip recorded in Bexar district
- Sold all/half? for $90 11/28/1881
- Donated? in 1882 to the Common School Fund of Texas; surveyed in in Crockett County
- Grant restored? in 1884 as script #226 in Fort Bend district
- Land surveyed in 1884 in Harris county (595 acres)