Raynors HCA 2017-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/1/2017
MITCHELL, Asa (1795-1865) was a Texan, an original Old Three Hundred colonist, soldier, planter, and merchant. With his wife and young son, Nathan, he moved to Texas in 1822 and settled at the mouth of the Brazos River, where he opened a salt-refining works, engaged in planting and trading, and became an enterprising commercial importer of household supplies and provisions for the Texas colonists. On April 8, 1835, he married Emily Brisbin in Austin County. He was the father of fourteen children. Document Signed “Asa Mitchell” and “Emily Mitchell” on a land deed legal document, Brenham, Washington County, Texas, September 5, 1846, 4pp., VG. The Mitchells are selling 200 acres. Retains the paper seal, VG. And, in added feature, the document also has an Autograph Note Signed twice by “Sam Lusk” as county clerk in Washington County. In 1836 Lusk joined Sam Houston's forces and was a member of the convention of the Republic of Texas that ratified annexation.
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