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Blackstone Hardeman and John M. Hardeman, 1250 acres, for $1800.599 On 27 March 1839 in Washington County, Texas, James B. Miller and wife, Eliza A. Miller, sold to John M. Hardeman, for $600, two tracts in Cole’s Settlement, part of a league granted to William Bridges as a colonist.600
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| | Blackstone Hardeman, Certificate 1 League and 1 Labor Land, File 261. San Patricio, 1st Class Headright Certificate, Blackstone Hardeman, 12 January 1838. Board of Land Commissioners for Washington County, Texas: Blackstone Hardeman presented himself, 12 January 1838, and proved to their satisfaction that he is entitled to one League and one Labor of Land. That he was a citizen at the date of the Declaration of Independence. That he is a married man and has remained with his family in the county ever since. /s/ Stephen R. Roberts, Jesse Bartlett, James W. Smith.601
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| | In 1838, Blackstone Hardeman moved from Washington County, to Nacogdoches County, Texas. He paid taxes in Nacogdoches County, Texas, from 1838 to 1840.
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| | Blackstone Hardeman is included in the 1840 census of the Republic of Texas: Blackstone Hardeman, Nacogdoches County, 1140 acres, 17 slaves, and one pleasure carriage.
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| | It has been stated many times that Blackstone Hardeman was a doctor. Nothing has been found to prove he was a doctor except the following advertisement.
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| | Blackstone Hardeman made and sold medicines. The following advertisement was published in the San Augustine Red-Lander, 9 September 1841 issue: “To the Afflicted – Dr. Hardeman’s Vegetable Ointment:” “A certain and sure cure for piles, and is good for any old sores, eruptions on the skin. Take this ointment and anoint the part affected three times a day, and it will effect a sure cure of the piles in eight or ten days. Price 5 dollars. The following certificate has been here appended from among many others in my possession. Blackstone Hardeman. Nacogdoches, May 13, 1841 – Dr. Blackstone Hardeman: -
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| 599 Joyce Martin Murray, Washington County, Texas, Deed Abstracts, 1834-1841– Republic of Texas and State of Coahuila and Texas (Mexico), (Dallas, Texas, 1986), p. 99. Deed Book D, p. 92. Witness: Daniel Browning.
| | 600 Murray, Washington County, Texas, Deed Abstracts, 1834-1841, p. 83. Deed Book C, p. 283. No witnesses.
| | 601 Texas General Land Office Records, Austin, Texas.
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