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of all the other Bowie descendants. "Even unto the third and
fourth generation."
The law suit throwing light on Bowie himself was over the
headright league of land on the Navidad River. This suit, styled
M. A. Veramendi, et al., vs. W. J. Hutchins, et al., was instituted
in Colorado County in 1869, went to the Supreme Court of Texas
in 1878, was remanded and came again to the Supreme Court
in 1882.33
Bowie had sold two hundred acres off the league while his wife
was alive. On October 15, 1835, according to a belatedly recorded
deed and bond, he sold the remainder of the league to William
Richardson for $5,000. In the long drawn-out suit over the Bowie
league, the Veramendi estate claimed that the land was community
property and that an undivided half of it still belonged to the heirs
of Ursula de Veramendi Bowie. The land, meanwhile, had been
resold to various individuals, including W. J. Hutchins. The deed
from Bowie to Richardson was attacked as fraudulent. Why should
anybody pay $5,000 for a tract of land hardly worth $500 at the
time of the alleged sale?
The chief witness put up by the Veramendi estate was Angus
McNeill-the man named by Bowie in his dowry contract as hold-
ing $20,00o for investment in textile machinery. McNeill had
served in the Texas legislature; his integrity had been attacked;"
his memory seemed good. He testified that he became acquainted
with Bowie in Mississippi in 1826 and knew him intimately from
that time till the fall of 1835, when he came to Texas with him,
accompanied by Dr. William Richardson. According to McNeill,
Dr. Richardson had twice attended Bowie during dangerous at-
tacks of illness, once in McNeill's own house. On the trip to Texas,
Dr. Richardson carried $80,00o that a company of men had raised
to invest in lands. This Dr. William Richardson, it may be added.
served as surgeon in the Texas army.
Bowie, Angus McNeill testified, "was a splendid man of the
83Veramendi vs. Hutchins, Supreme Court of Texas, No. M-7968. See note 17.
34"Notice: All persons are hereby warned from purchasing a note drawn by
the undersigned, in favor of Angus McNeil, on the 12th December '37, for the
sum of $12,ooo Government audited money, or $7000 in cash, payable on the
Ist of March following, as I am determined not to pay the same in consequence
of no value having been received. H. R. Allen, March 27 [1839] ." Telegraph and
Texas Register, April 17, 1839.356
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