Date: August 8, 1833
Document Type: Articles of Agreememnt
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek Settlement
Parties to or Names Mentioned: Jacob Shannon and Rutha Miller [Ruth
Miller].
Source: Montgomery County Clerk's Office, Deed Records,
Volume N, page 254.
Date: January 13, 1834
Document Type: Land Transaction
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek Settlement
Parties to or Names Mentioned: Thomas Chatham
and J. M. Springer
Source: Stephen F. Austin’s Register of Families, Book 2, Page 7.
Date: April 12, 1835 – Year recorded incorrectly. Correct year
is 1834.
Document Type: Will of Owen Shannon
Name of Place Mentioned: Neighborhood of Lake
Creek
Parties to or Names Mentioned: Owen Shannon, Margaret
Shannon, Henry Goff, Mary Corner, Matthew Hubert, James J. Foster, William C. Clark, Benjamin Rigby and George
Allen.
Source: Austin County Clerk's Office in a file referred to as the "Old Probate Files."
Date: September 17th, 1835
Document Type: Deed – Margaret Shannon to Charles
Garrett
Name of Place Mentioned: Precinct of Lake
Creek
Parties to or Names Mentioned: Margaret Shannon,
Charles Garrett, C.B. Stewart and Henry Goff
Source: Montgomery County Clerk, Deed, Vol. F, pp. 65 and
66.
Date: October 31, 1835
Document Type: Letter – R.R. Royal President of the
Permanent Council to Genl. Stephen F. Austin and Genl. Sam Houston
Name of Place Mentioned: "...an express from Lake
Creek says in a few days 50 men from that Quarter will leave for head Quarters..."
Parties to or Names Mentioned: R.R. Royall
Presd. Genl. Council, General Stephen F. Austin and General Sam Houston
Source: The Papers of the Texas Revolution 1835-1836,
Presidial Press, Austin, 1973, Vol. 2, pp. 279-281.
Date: November 4, 1835
Document Type: Bond – William Busby to W. W.
Shepperd
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek, Austins
Colony
Parties to or Names Mentioned: Willam Busby, W. W. Shepperd, A. Garner, W. M. Rankin and John M.
Springer.
Source: Montgomery County Clerk, Deed, Vol. A, pp.
61-62.
Date: December 10, 1835
Document Type: Report and Resolutions of the General
Council of the Provisional Government of Texas signed by Lt. Governor James W. Robinson
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: General Council of the Provisional Government of Texas, Lt. Governor James W. Robinson and
James J. Foster.
Source: The Papers of the Texas Revolution,
1835-1836, Presidial Press, Austin, Vol. 9, pp.152-153.
Date: December 10, 1835
Document Type: An Address to the People of Texas from
the General Council of the Provisional Government of Texas
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: General Council of the Provisional Government of Texas, D.C. Barrett, Chairman; R.R. Royall,
Henry Millard and James J. Foster.
Source: The Papers of the Texas Revolution,
1835-1836, John H. Jenkins editor, Presidial Press, Vol. 3, pp.142-144.
Date: December 11, 1835
Document Type: Letter - Moseley Baker to the General
Council of the Provisional Government of Texas
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: General Council of the Provisional Government of Texas, Moseley Baker, Capt. Fanning [Fannin]
and James J. Foster.
Source: The Papers of the Texas Revolution,
1835-1836, John H. Jenkins editor, Presidial Press, Vol. 3, pp.152-153.
Date: December 29, 1835
Document Type: Military Discharge of Hiram Brumet
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
Parties to or Names Mentioned: Hiram Brumet
and Capt. John M. Bradley
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Clark, William C., Claim #: 1242, Type: AU, Reel #: 18, Frames: 134.
Date: February 28, 1836
Document Type: Transfer of Military Discharge Hyram Brumet to
Wm. C. Clark
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
Parties to or Names Mentioned: Hyram Brumet, Wm. C.
Clark, Young Caruthers, Jno. Wade and Jonathan
Collard
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Clark, William C., Claim #: 1242, Type: AU, Reel #: 18, Frame: 135.
Date: March 8, 1836 and March 11, 1836
Document Type: Marriage Records – Charles B. Stewart to Julia
Shepperd
Name of Place Mentioned:
“
I James Hall Judge of the Municipality of Washington authorised W W Shepperd of
Lake Creek
to celebrate a contract of marriage between C B Stewart & Julia Shepperd…” “By
virtue of the foregoing authority to me directed I William W. Shepperd on
Lake Creek
on the 11th day of March 1836 caused the contract of Marriage between the parties referred to be
executed…”
Parties to or Names Mentioned: Judge James Hall, C.B.
Stewart, Julia Shepperd and William W. Shepperd.
Source:
Washington County Clerk, Deed Book A-1, p. 240.
Date: March 11, 1836
Document
Type: Affidavit – Marriage Records - Charles B. Stewart to Julia
Shepperd
Name of Place Mentioned:
House of W.W. Shepperd on Lake Creek
Parties to or Names
Mentioned: John Wade, W.C. Clark, Chas Garrett, W.W. Shepperd,
C.B. Stewart and Julia Shepperd.
Source: Washington County Clerk, Deed Book A-1, p. 243
Date:
1836
Document
Type: Campaign Recollections of J. H.
Kuykendall
Name of Place
Mentioned: Lake Creek
Parties to or Names
Mentioned: Sam Houston and J.H.
Kuykendall
Source: J. H. Kuykendall, "Recollections of the Campaign," quoted in Eugene C.
Barker's "The San Jacinto Campaign,” Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume IV, p.
300.
Date: March 17, 1836
Document Type: Advertisement – Notice
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
Parties to or Names Mentioned: W. W. Shepperd
and Col. Jared Groce.
Source: Telegraph and Texas Register newspaper,
Thursday, March 17, 1836, Vol. I, No. 20, published at San Felipe de Austin by Joseph Baker & Bordens.
Date: 1836-1839
Document Type: Compiled Election Index
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
Precinct
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Justice of the
Peace Peter Cartwright, Justice of the Peace Martin P. Clark and
Justice of the Peace George Galbraith.
Source: Compiled Index to Elected and Appointed Officials
of the Republic of Texas: 1835-1846 published by the State Archives Division Texas State Library, 1981, pp. 21, 23
and 42.
Date: June 24, 1836
Document Type: Deed - Charles Stewart to Benjamin
Rigby
Name of Place Mentioned: “At the store of William W.
Shepperd on Lake Creek”
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Chas. B. Stewart,
Benjamin Rigby, William W. Shepperd, James Buckhanon, John Geline, John Wade and William
Rankin.
Date: June 25, 1836
Document Type: Day Book entry of Charles B. Stewart
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Chas. B.
Stewart and W. W. Shepperd
Source: June 25, 1836 entry, Day Book from 1836 to
1852, Charles Bellinger Stewart Papers, Texas State Library and Archives, Austin Texas.
Date: August 1836
Document Type: Advertisement for City of Houston
Name of Place Mentioned: "The town of Houston is distant...40 miles
from Lake Creek..."
Parties to and Names Mentioned: A.C. Allen and
J.K. Allen
Source: August 30, 1836 edition of Telegraph and Texas
Register newspaper published in Houston, Texas.
Date: 1836
Document Type: Allen Brothers Letter to Congress of Republic of
Texas
Name of Place mentioned: "...Spring and Lake creek
settlements..."
Parties to and Names Mentioned: A.C. Allen and
J.K. Allen
Source: Houston, A History and Guide, Compiled by
Workers of the Writers’ Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Texas, Sponsored by the Harris County
Historical Society, Inc., The Anson Jones Press, Houston, Texas, 1942, pp. xi and xii.
Date: November 6, 1836
Document
Type: Power of Attorney
Name of Place
Mentioned: "I William C. Clark of Lake Creek, Municipality of Washington
and Republic of Texas..." and "Given at Lake Creek..."
Parties to and Names
Mentioned: Wm. C. Clark, Young Carrethers, Hiram Brumet, Jonathan Collard, W.W.
Shepperd and Jno. Wade.
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims, Name: Clark, William C., Claim
#: 1242, Type: AU, Reel #: 18, Frame: 132.
Date: December 10, 1836
Document Type: Deed – John M. Springer to Jeremiah
Worsham
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Jeremiah Worsham, John
M. Springer, B.B. Goodrich, Mathew Hubert, William Keys, Wm. C. Clark and Wm. Cartwright.
Source: Montgomery County Deeds, Vol. A, pp. 3 and
4.
Date: November 29, 1836
Document Type: Obituary of Ann Rebecca Mock
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
settlement
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Ann Rebecca Mock,
William Mock and Ann Mock.
Source: Telegraph and Texas Register, December 17,
1836, Vol. I, No. 47, p. 4, Columbia, Republic of Texas.
Date: January 5, 1837
Document Type: Business Record
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Charles B.
Stewart and Capt. [John] Crane
Source: January 5, 1837 entry, Day Book from 1836 to
1852, Charles Bellinger Stewart Papers, Texas State Library and Archives, Austin Texas.
Date: January 10, 1837
Document Type: Contract – John Thomas and William Landrum and
John Pyle
Name of Place Mentioned: Republic of Texas and Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: John Thomas, William Landrum, John Pyle, J. Worsham, W. M. Rankin, Zacheus Wilson, William
Keys and Y. F. W. Johnson.
Source: Montgomery County Deeds, Vol.
B, p.407.
Date: January 10, 1837
Document Type: Deed – David Thomas
to William Landrum and John Pyle
Name of Place Mentioned: Republic of Texas and Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: David Thomas, William Landrum, John Pyle, J. Worsham, William gilmore,
W. M. Rankin, Zacheus Wilson, William Patterson and F. W. Johnson.
Source: Montgomery County Deeds, Vol. L, p.
357-358.
Date: January 14, 1837
Document Type: Deed – William Busby to W.W. Shepperd
Name of Place Mentioned: At the store of William W. Shepperd on
Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: William Busby, William
W. Shepperd, R. M. Cravens, William Keys, Thomas Adams and C.B. Stewart.
Source: Montgomery County Deeds, Vol. A, pp.
50-53.
Date: January 17, 1837
Document Type: Bond
– Samuel McCombs to W.W. Shepperd
Name of Place Mentioned: Done at the store of William W.
Shepperd on Lake Creek and W. W. Shepperd of Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Samuel McCombs, William
Busby, Massina Brown, William W. Shepperd, R. M. Cravens, William Keys, Thomas Adams and Charles B.
Stewart.
Source: Washington County Deeds, Vol. A-1, pp.
36-37.
Date: January 18, 1837
Document Type: Deed – A.U. Springer to John Pyle
Name of Place Mentioned: Settlement of Lake
Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: A. U. Springer, John Pyle, Zaheus (Zacheus) Wilson, John M. Springer, William Landrum, James P. McFarlan
(McFarland) and Thomas Chatham.
Source: Montgomery County Deeds, Vol. H, p. 133.
Date: February 15, 1837
Document Type: Washington County Election Returns
Name of Place Mentioned: Precinct of Lake
Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Jer. Washam [Jeremiah Worsham] – Justice
of the Peace for Precinct of Lake Creek, Geo. Galbraith [George Galbraith] Justice of the Peace for Precinct of Lake
Creek and Jno.P. Coles [John P. Coles], Chief Justice of Washington County. Many other elected official in Washington County are also listed.
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic of Texas
Election Returns 1835-1845, Box 2-9/44, 1837 - Washington Co.
Date: February 28, 1837
Document Type: Business Record - “Day Book” Entry of Charles B.
Stewart
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Wm. Landrum (William Landrum) and Charles B.
Stewart.
Source: February 28, 1837 entry, Day Book from 1836 to
1852, Charles Bellinger Stewart Papers, Texas State Library and Archives, Austin Texas
Date: March 6, 1837
Document Type: Affidavit of James Lee
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: James
Lee and Justice of the Peace Geo. Galbraith (George Galbraith).
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Stewart, Charles B., Claim #: 965, Type: AU, Reel #: 101, Frame: 26.
Date: March 6, 1837
Document Type: Contract – Evin Corner and Charles B. Stewart
Name of Place Mentioned: “This act made on Lake Creek
this sixth day…”
Parties to and Names Mentioned: B. B. Goodrich, George W. Davis, Evin Corner, Michael Gillou, James Wilson, Charles Garrett
and C. B. Stewart.
Source: Montgomery County Deeds, Vol. B. p. 221-223.
Date: March 1837
Document Type: “Day Book” Entry of Charles B. Stewart –
Business Record
Name of Place Mentioned: “…for joint a/c Charles Garrett myself Lake
Creek”
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Charles Garrett and C. B. Stewart
Source: Day Book from 1836 to 1852, p. 34, Charles Bellinger Stewart Papers,
Texas State Library and Archives, Austin Texas.
Pages 34 and 35 contain a number of joint business dealings between Charles B. Stewart and Charles Garrett in Lake Creek.
Date: March 1837
Document Type: Business Record - “Day Book” Entry of Charles B.
Stewart
Name of Place Mentioned: “…with Ransom Fultons of Lake Creek”
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Ransom Fultons, Garrett [Charles Garrett] and Stewart [Charles B.
Stewart].
Source: Day Book from 1836 to 1852, p. 34,
Charles Bellinger Stewart Papers, Texas State Library and Archives, Austin Texas.
Date: March 15, 1837
Document Type: Business Record - “Day Book” Entry of
Charles B. Stewart
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Judge Hall, Chas Garrett [Charles Garrett] and C. B. Stewart.
Source: Day Book from 1836 to 1852, p. 34, Charles Bellinger Stewart Papers,
Texas State Library and Archives, Austin Texas.
Date: April 9, 1837
Document Type: Assignment – James A. Wilson to Charles B.
Stewart
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek and Lake Creek District
Parties to and Names Mentioned: James A. Wilson,
Charles B. Stewart and Justice of the Peace Geo. Galbraith (George Galbraith).
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Stewart, Charles B., Claim #: 960, Type: AU, Reel #: 126, Frame: 706.
Date: April 21, 1837
Document Type: Affidavit of A. U. Springer
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
District
Parties to and Names Mentioned: A. U. Springer, Justice
of the Peace Geo. Galbraith (George Galbraith), W. M. Rankin and C. B. Stewart.
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Springer, A.U., Claim #: 953, Type: AU, Reel #: 99, Frames: 581.
Date: April 21, 1837
Document Type: Affidavit of John M. Springer
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
District
Parties to and Names Mentioned: John M. Springer,
Justice of the Peace Geo. Galbraith (George Galbraith), W. M. Rankin and Charles B. Stewart.
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Springer, John, Claim #: 952, Type: AU, Reel #: 99, Frames: 586.
Date: April 21, 1837
Document Type: Affidavit of Raleigh Rogers
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
District
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Raleigh Rogers, James
Wilson, Justice of the Peace Geo. Galbraith (George Galbraith) and C. B. Stewart.
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Rogers, Raleigh, Claim #: 954, Type: AU, Reel #: 89, Frame: 544.
Date: April 21, 1837
Document Type: Affidavit of George Galbraith
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek District,
Washington County and Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: George Galbraith,
Justice of the Peace J. Worsham (Jeremiah Worsham), C. B. Stewart and W. M. Rankin.
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Galbraith, George, Claim #: 955, Type: AU, Reel #: 34, Frame: 113.
Date: April 21, 1837
Document Type: Affidavit of Dickerson Garrett
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek District
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Dickerson Garrett and Justice of the Peace Geo.Galbraith [George
Galbraith].
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims, Name: Garrett, Dickerson, Claim
#: 5432, Type: AU, Reel #: 34, Frame: 431.
Date: May 8, 1837
Document Type: Affidavit of Matthew Moss
Name of Place Mentioned: Republic of Texas, Washington County,
Lake Creek Precinct
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Matthew Moss
and Justice of the Peace J. Worsham (Jeremiah Worsham).
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Dikeman, Cyrus, Claim #: 7983, Type: AU, Reel #: 124, Frame: 94.
Date: May 8, 1837
Document Type: Affidavit of Benjamin Rigby
Name of Place Mentioned: Republic of Texas, Washington County, Lake Creek District.
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Benjamin Rigby, Charles B.
Stewart and George Galbraith Justice of the Peace.
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Rigby, Benjamin, Claim #: 2613, Type: AU, Reel #: 88, Frame: 113.
Date: May 8, 1837
Document Type: Affidavit of Thomas Chatham
Name of Place Mentioned: Republic of Texas, Washington County,
Lake Creek District
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Thomas Chatham, Justice
of the Peace Geo. Galbraith (George Galbraith), Chas. B. Stewart and Ben Jami[son].
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Chatham, Thomas, Claim #: 2610, Type: AU, Reel #: 17, Frames: 337 and 341.
Date: May 13, 1837
Document Type: Affidavit of Alexander Whitaker
Name of Place Mentioned: Republic of Texas, the County of
Washington, District of Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Alexander
Whitaker and Justice of the Peace Jeremiah Worsham.
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Whitaker, Alexander, Claim #: 1300, Type: AU, Reel #: 113, Frame: 336.
Date: June 1837
Document Type: Deed - William Rankin, Sr. to Daniel L. Richardson
Name of Place Mentioned: County of Washington and "at the store of W. W. Shepperd on Lake
Creek"
Parties to and Names Mentioned: William Rankin, Daniel L. Richardson, Charles B. Stewart, R. M.
Cravens and George W. Davis.
Source: Montgomery County Deed Book F, pp. 12-14.
Date: June 13, 1837
Document Type: Deed – William Busby to William F.
Bowen
Name of Place Mentioned: At the store of William W. Shepperd on
Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: William Busby, Harriett
Busby, William F. Bowen, William W. Shepperd, Joseph L. Bennett, Charles Garrett and Charles B.
Stewart.
Source: Washington County Deeds, Vol. A, pp.
175-177.
Note: July 1837 - Town of Montgomery is founded. Name
of Town of Montgomery appears in print for the first time in an advertisement in the Telegraph and Texas Register
newspaper in the Saturday, July 8, 1837 edition, Vol. 2, No. 25, p. 3. This advertisement for the sale of lots in the
town of Montgomery will appear weekly in the Telegraph and Texas Register for the next several months.
Date: August 2, 1837
Document Type: Deed – W. Buchannon (Guardian) to C. B.
Stewart
Name of Place Mentioned: Republic of Texas, County of
Washington, District of Lake Creek, “...at the store of W. W.
Shepperd on Lake Creek in the town of Montgomery”
Parties to and Names Mentioned: William Buchannon,
James Houston Buchannon, C.B. Stewart, Wiley Harrison, Chief Justice Jno. P. Coles (John P. Coles), William Buchannon
and W. W. Shepperd.
Source: Washington County Clerk, Deed, Volume A, pp.
241-243. This deed is something of a Rosetta Stone in that it proves the District of Lake Creek and the
store of W. W. Shepperd on Lake Creek and the Town of Montgomery are all the same
place!
Date: August 12, 1837
Document Type: Telegraph and Texas Register Newspaper
Masthead
Name of Place Mentioned: Montgomery, Lake
Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: W. W. Shepard (W.W.
Shepperd) as Agent for the Telegraph and Texas Register in Montgomery, Lake Creek.
Source: August 12, 1837 edition of the Telegraph and Texas
Register, Vol. II, No. 30, Whole No. 82, page 1, Houston, Texas. Shepperd will be
listed as the agent of the Telegraph and Texas Register in “Montgomery, Lake Creek” for a couple of years. Later, Lake Creek will be dropped and Shepperd will be listed as the agent in Montgomery
only.
Date: August 18, 1837
Document Type: Affidavit of James P. McFarland
Name of Place Mentioned: District of Lake
Creek, Washington County in the Republic of Texas
Parties to and Names Mentioned: James P.
McFarland and Justice of the Peace Geo. Galbraith (George Galbraith).
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: McFarland, James P., Claim #: 3330, Type: AU, Reel #: 67, Frame: 556.
December 14, 1837 – An Act creating
Montgomery County is signed into law by President Sam Houston. The Act appointed nine
commissioners to selct the site of the seat of justice for the new county.
Date: December 19, 1837
Document Type: Newspaper Notice/Advertisement
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake
Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: J. J. Smith
and John Pyle.
Source: December 30, 1837 edition of the Telegraph and
Texas Register, Vol. 3, No. 3.
Date: December 30, 1837
Document Type: Letter
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Doctor Stewart, H.
Rosson (Hiram Rosson) and Francis J. Cooke.
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Cooke, Francis J., Claim #: 4066, Type: AU, Reel # 20, Frame #: 325.
February, 1838 - The nine commissioners had chosen the original site of the town of
Montgomery under the hill to be the seat of justice (county seat) of Montgomery County. Chief Justice Jesse Grimes was
holding open court there and Clerk Gwynn Morrison was filing documents there in February of 1838.
March 1, 1838 – At the first
Montgomery County Commissioners Court meeting, C. B. Stewart as agent for W. W. Shepperd induces the Montgomery County
Commissioners Court to move the site of the town of Montgomery by offering the county a one half undivided interest in 200 acres
of land due south of the original site of the town of Montgomery. “…[A]nd
the question being also whether the place of the Town [of Montgomery] presented by C.B. Stewart as agent for W. W. Shepperd should
be received the same was unanimously received and adopted.”
Date: May 30, 1838
Document Type: Montgomery Count Election Returns
Name of Place Mentioned: Montgomery County, Precinct of
Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Hon. R. A. Irion,
Justice of the Peace Martin P. Clark, Justice of the Peace George Galbraith and Constable William S.
Taylor.
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic of Texas
Election Returns, 1835-1845, Box 2-9/44, Election Returns 1838 – Montgomery Co.
Date: September 25, 1838
Document Type: Newspaper Notice/Advertisement
Name of Place Mentioned: Lake
Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Dr. Stewart
and Mary Corner.
Source: September 29, 1838 edition of the Telegraph and Texas
Register, Vol. IV, No. 5, Whole No. 161, page 3, Houston, Texas.
Date: October 30, 1838
Document Type: Montgomery County Election Returns
Name of Place Mentioned: Republic of Texas, Montgomery County,
Precinct of Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Justice of the Peace
Peter Cartwright, Martin P. Clark and Chief Justice Jesse Grimes.
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic of Texas
Election Returns, 1835-1845, Box 2-9/44, Election Returns 1838 – Montgomery Co.
Date: November 25, 1838
Document Type: Election Bond of Constable Nathan
Drake
Name of Place Mentioned: Republic of Texas, Montgomery County,
Precinct of Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Constable Nathan Drake,
W. W. Shepperd, Charles Garrett, Sam Houston and Chief Justice Jesse Grimes.
Source: Montgomery County Clerk, Records of Official Bonds 1838-1848, p. 12.
Date: August 5, 1839
Document Type: Title Bond – William Atkins to Allen
Samuel
Name of Place Mentioned: District
of Lake Creek
Parties to and Names Mentioned: William Atkins, Allen
Samuel, Geo. Galbraith and James Corner.
Source: Montgomery County Deeds, Vol. E, pp.
219-221.
Date: July 8, 1845
Document Type: Advertisement – Montgomery Patriot
Newspaper
Name of Place Mentioned: “The lands surrounding Montgomery,
known as the Lake Creek Settlement…”
Parties to and Names Mentioned: A. M’Cown (Alexander
McCown)
Source: July 2, 1845 edition of the Montgomery Patriot,
Vol. I, No. 10, page 4, published in Montgomery, Texas by John Marshall Wade.
Date: August 17, 1855
Document Type: Interrogatory Propounded to Jesse Grimes by Nat
Hart Davis
Name of Place Mentioned: “Int. 5th In or previous to, 1833, did you know of Land in Lake Creek Settlement known or
called Beadye League?”
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Jacob Shannon, Ruth Miller, Jesse Grimes and N Hart Davis [Nat Hart Davis] Attorney for
Plaintiff and A. Hemphill Attorney for Defendant.
Source: Montgomery County District Court, Case No. 923, Ruth Miller vs. Jacob Shannon,
Montgomery County, Texas.
Date: October 4, 1870
Document Type: Affidavit of Thomas Chatham - Pension
Application of John Marshall Wade
Name of Place Mentioned: “he [Thomas Chatham] personally knew the said John M Wade now here before him in
the year 1835 in the month of October at the place then called Lake Creek Settlement now the town of Montgomery.” and “…that he [Wade] returned from said Battle [of San Jacinto] to the Lake Creek
Settlement now the county and town of Montgomery”
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Thomas Chatham, John M. Wade and Capt. W. Ware Captain William
Ware).
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Wade, John M., Type: PE, Reel #: 243, Frames: 524-526.
Date: October 8, 1870
Document Type: Mathew Cartwright Affidavit – Mathew Cartwright
Pension Application
Name of Place Mentioned: “…that he then returned to his place
of residence in Montgomery County then called Lake Creek Settlement in the Municipality of Washington now
the County of Montgomery”
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Mathew
Cartwright
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Cartwright, Mathew., Type: PE, Reel #: 207, Frame: 596.
Date: October 8, 1870
Document Type: John M. Wade Affidavit – Mathew Cartwright
Pension Application
Name of Place Mentioned: “John M. Wade says he knew the said
Mathew Cartwright now present before him in the years 1835 & 1836 at Lake Creek Settlement in the Municipality
of Washington now County of Montgomery.”
Parties to and Names Mentioned: John M. Wade
and Mathew Cartwright.
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Cartwright, Mathew., Type: PE, Reel #: 207, Frame: 597.
Date: October 8, 1870
Document Type: Jacob Shannon Affidavit – Mathew Cartwright
Pension Application
Name of Place Mentioned: “that he [Jacob Shannon] knew the said
Mathew Cartwright now present before him in the year 1835 at and in the Lake Creek Settlement now said County of
Montgomery.”
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Jacob Shannon
and Mathew Cartwright.
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims,
Name: Cartwright, Mathew., Type: PE, Reel #: 207, Frame: 598.
Date: October 20, 1870
Document Type: Evin Corner Pension Application
Name of Place Mentioned: I, the said Evan Corner swear I volunteered a
second time under J M Wade at Lake Creek Settlement on or about the 4th day of July AD One Thousand
Eight Hundred and Thirty Six…”
Parties to and Names Mentioned: Evan Corner (Evin
Corner)
Source: Texas State Library and Archives, Republic Claims, Name:
Corner, Evin, Type: PE, Reel #: 210, Frames: 265 and 266.
Complete List of Names Mentioned
in the
Lake Creek Settlement Documents
Thomas Adams
A. C. Allen
John K. Allen
William Atkins
Stephen F. Austin
Moseley Baker
D. C. Barrett (Don Carlos Barrett)
Jos L. Bennett, Capt.
William F. Bowen
John M Bradley, Capt.
Massina Brown (Messina Brown)
Hiram Brumet (Hyram Brumet)
W. Buchannon
James Buckhanon
Harriet Busby
William Busby
Mathew Cartwright
Peter Cartwright
William C. Cartwright
Young Caruthers
Ditha Chatham
Thomas Chatham
Martin P. Clark
William C. Clark
John P. Coles
Jonathan Collard
Francis J. Cooke
Evan Corner (Evin Corner)
James Corner
John Corner
Mary Corner
Capt. Crane (John Crane)
R. M. Cravens (or Cravans)
George W. Davis
N. Hart Davis (Nat or Nathaniel Hart Davis)
Nathan Drake
Col. James W. Fannin, Jr.
James J. Foster
Ransom Fultons
George Galbraith
A. Garner
Charles Garrett
Dickerson Garrett
John Geline
William Gilmore
Henry Goff
B. B. Goodrich
Jesse Grimes
Jared Groce
Judge James Hall
A. Hemphill
Sam Houston
Mathew Hubert
Ben Jami[son]
F. W. Johnson
William Keys
J. H. Kuykendall
William Landrum
Zachariah Landrum
James Lee
A. M'Cown (Alexander McCown)
Saml. M'Combs (Samuel McCombs)
James P. McFarland
Henry Millard
Ruth Miller
Ann Mock
Ann Rebecca Mock
William Mock
J. W. Moody
Matthew Moss
William Patterson
J. G. W. Pierson
John Pyle
William Rankin
Lt. Governor James W. Robinson
Raleigh Rogers
H. Rosson (Hiram Rosson)
R. R. Royal
Daniel L. Richardson
Benjamine Rigby (Benjamin Rigby)
Thomas J. Rusk
Allen Samuel
Jacob Shannon
John Shannon
Margaret Shannon
Owen Shannon
W. W. Shepperd
Julia Shepperd (Julia T. Stewart)
J. J. Smith
A. U. Springer
John M. Springer
C. B. Stewart
Julia T. Stewart (Julia Shepperd)
William S. Taylor
David Thomas
James Thomas
John Thomas
John Marshall Wade
William Ware
Alexander Whitaker
James A. Wilson
Zacheus Wilson
Jeremiah Worsham
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Telegraph and Texas Register
Montgomery Patriot
Day Book of C. B. Stewart
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