Texas General Land Office, Fannin Bounty abstract 761, file 51: original grantee Asa Mitchell, patentee Nathan Mitchell (320 acres).

Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).

REPUBLIC OF TEXAS.

[Certificate No.] [illegible/uncertain — faded, overwritten by period cross-writing on the reverse bleeding through] — [Acreage, printed field] Acres

KNOW ALL MEN TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

That Asa Mitchell having served faithfully and honorably for the term of three Months from the third day of July until the third day of October 1836 and having been honorably discharged is entitled to Three hundred and twenty Acres Bounty Land, for which this is his CERTIFICATE.

And the said Asa Mitchell is entitled to hold said Land, or to sell, alienate, convey and donate the same, and to exercise all rights of ownership over it.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, at Houston the twenty [day hard to read: 26th or 29th] day of May 1838.

[signed] Wm. G. Cooke, Sec'y War & Marine

[signed] Charles Mason, Acting Secretary of War