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Fisher sailed from Galveston for Bremen on March 12, 1844,
on the brig Weser and arrived in Bremen early in May. On May
10, 1844, he issued at least eight colonization certificates at Bremen.
A copy of one of these certificates, issued to Thomas Schwab,
follows :
This is to certify that Thomas Schwab, a native of Rumbach,
Cr. Hessen [Kurhessen ?-Electorate of Hesse] in Germany, by
occupation a Mason, and being a single man over the age of 17
years is entitled to One hundred and Sixty acres of Land in the
San Saba Colony by virtue of authority granted to Fisher, Miller
& Co., and in accordance with the stipulations of a certain Colo-
nization Contract entered into between the President of the Re-
public of Texas and the said Fisher, Miller & Co. at Washington,
September 1, 1843.
Bremen, May 10, 1844. Henry F. Fisher
Agent of the S. Saba Col. Comp--2
Besides the certificate issued to Thomas Schwab, there are cer-
tificates issued for Valentin Fey (spelled Vey in the certificate),
Peter Reis, Johannes Schneider, and Johannes Arnold (written
Arnholt in the certificate), all of Rumbach, for J. A. Koch of
Eisleben, and for Sebastian Heinrich Cristof Moeschen and Johann
Valentin Schulmeyer of Manterota, Saxe-Gotha. The last two
received 320 acres each, since they were married; the other six,
being single, received only 160 acres. It is very likely that Fisher
issued other colonization certificates, since the brig Weser, which
,carried the six single men just listed and the two married men,
with their families, also had on board twenty-seven other single
men and nine other families.29
The issuing of these colonization certificates was the last official
.action performed in the name of the San Saba Colonization Com-
pany. Ten days later, on May 20, 1844, Fisher wrote to Presi-
dent Anson Jones from Mayence, Germany, that he had associated
Penniger, Fest-Ausgabe, p. 26; Tiling, History of the German Element in
Texas, p. 69.
For a full discussion of Fisher's dealings with the Society for the Pro-
tection of German immigrants in Texas, see my doctoral dissertation en-
titled The History of the German Settlements in Texas, 1831-1861, two
copies of which are on file in the library of the University of Texas.
28This manuscript is one of eight which I found in the General Land
Office at Austin, Texas, in one of six large bundles marked "Records of
the German Emigration Company."
29Colonization Papers, 1843-1845. Texas State Library.182
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