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men, most of whom had long-standing rights to land, and for himself. Montague's
records show that a large party of men was tramping through the grassland and woods
along Rowlett's Creek, as the creek was then known, during that winter. Men who
carried the chain to measure the land were James Ledbetter, Edmund Dodd, Maise Foster,
G.W. Kennedy, A. Hatfield and Harmon Wynn. Ledbetter, Dodd and Foster located their
land farther south on the creek, even past the Dallas County line. Some of the land that
Rowlett and these chainmen surveyed was 640 acres for Jeremiah Muncy and 320 acres
for McBain Jameson.
Most of the older land certificates were in Spanish measure, such as the league
and labor of land given to residents of Texas on the day of independence. The huge L
shape of Rowlett's survey contained 15,935,561 square varas, over 2,800 acres of land.
Daniel Rowlett - doctor, lawyer, surveyor, planter - never lived on this land. He died in
1848 and was buried at Fort Inglish.
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Dr. Daniel Rowlett, a member of the Fannin County Land Commission, marked off land claims along
Rowlett Creek in January 1948.
Free land brought first settlers to Allen 9-13-87
How did the mythical typical Texan evolve? Are Texans really brasher, larger
than life, with free-wheeling self-reliance; ready to gamble all on an oil well or a cause;
and without enough sense to know when to cry, "calf-rope?" Perhaps closer to the truth,
a Texan is a product of his environment, heritage and personal ambitions. This is the first
of a series about the local families who were the heritage of one Texan.
"Land for the boys," was the most powerful motivation for the settlement of the
America' s frontier. Its importance was such that political thinkers wondered if our form
of democracy could survive once there was no more land for expansion.
Early Texans realized that Texas' land was its most important asset. With it they
would bargain for schools, railroads and even a capital building. Land would bring in3
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