One of the other Henry Clarks

Aunt Charlyne's map of Clark land holdings in Dallas County included a 640 acre married man's headright patented to Henry Clark in Oak Cliff.  On investigation, I am pretty sure that was a different Henry Clark.  

I tracked down the abstract number in the Dallas County records and found it was number 297.

 

In the Texas General Land Office database I found that tract was assigned to Henry Clark in 1856.  "Our" Henry Clay Clark was only 6 years old in 1856.  Further, the records show this claim was based on the second contract of The Peters Colony and he claimed to have arrived with his family prior to 1848.

As I mentioned in the previous post, there was another Henry Clark, with a family, in the 1850 U.S. census for Dallas County.  A simple search of land plats back in the 1960's would not have the details we can access today through the GLO.  I don't believe "our" Henry Clay Clark ever held a land grant in Dallas County and, instead, used the profits from his cattle drives and land sales in Missouri to purchase properties in Dallas County when he moved back from Missouri.