After the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas granted its soldiers
certificates for 640 acres of land. This was to go to all who were
engaged in the Battle of San Jacinto, all who were wounded the day
before, all who guarded the army’s baggage near Harrisburg, all who
entered Bexar from the morning of the 5th to the 10th of December, 1835,
all who took part in the reduction of the fort at Bexar, all who were in
action under Colonels Fannin and Ward on March 19, 1836, and to the
heirs of those who were killed at the Battle of the Alamo on March 6,
1836.
An interesting feature of the Act of December 21, 1837, which granted
these lands, was that veterans receiving lands under this act could not
sell or mortgage those lands.
More than 40 years later, on April 26, 1879, the State Legislature
granted another 640 acres to indigent veterans of the Texas Revolution,
after repealing an act which granted those veterans a pension of $150
per year.