Inside the Layer of the Dragon

Inside the layer of the dragon. Refugio County Courthouse

So I'm led into the archives, inside the courthouse. An employee simply told me how to figure things out and walked away. I'm standing in front of this book, literally the breath just left my body as I looked around and said what is this? You see that giant book there? In order to find a grant or any instrument you need to go through those books underneath that book and when you find say a transfer of grant title at the very end of the row, it tells you a specific book letter and a page number. At that point, you have to walk across to the other side from you. See all those volumes of books against the wall? There you have to pull out the specified book referenced to in the first book and go to that page number to find a grant, a deed, etc. I am not kidding. I know in my heart, that it didn't change one iota since Abel Rubio stood here (very spot) in 1975. Not one iota!

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Racial Injustice in Refugio, Texas

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Transfer to Francisco de la Garza

This is the conveyance of land from Maria Josefa and Jose Maria to Francisco de la Garza. The bottom picture is the start, and it finishes at the top of the next picture, the one on top. If this isn't legitimate ownership of title, then I don't know what is...

Old Maps and Deception

Well, it may come as no surprise to some, but I needed to validate this map search for myself and perhaps others in the group. Remarkably, what was said by Rubio speaks out in the maps. I was fortunate to access the Texas General Land Office database in Austin . More specifically, I was able to locate all the maps that were relevant to the story timeline. These Refugio Co maps date from 1850 - 1875. They are relevant only because they date the span of time the de la Garza's were on the land. Looking at them I was disappointed to see that all 5 original maps did not contain a Becerra or de la Garza name. Now, this is where it gets interesting. It's simple, 1. Becerra and de la Garza families lived in a parallel universe and the rest of Refugio lived in another, as in the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing, 2. They knew who was on the land but didn't care to investigate. Instead allowing Anglo colonizers to take it outright and not bother as to w...

Stolen Heritage Revisited

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