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  Liberty - History
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Parents > United States > Texas > TX Counties > Liberty  
Websitehttp://www.co.liberty.tx.us/
Established May 05, 1831
Disbanded Still Active
Last ModifiedRP December 27, 2022 02:28pm
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August 13, 1870 -


LIBERTY lost to creation of SAN JACINTO. (Texas Laws 1870, 12th leg., called sess., ch. 59/p. 79)

February 12, 1858 - August 13, 1870


LIBERTY lost to creation of CHAMBERS. (Texas Laws 1857, 7th leg., chs. 125-126/pp. 192-193)

January 22, 1858 - February 12, 1858


LIBERTY lost to creation of HARDIN. (Texas Laws 1857, 7th leg., ch. 55, sec. 8/p. 60)

April 03, 1846 - January 22, 1858


LIBERTY lost to creation of TYLER. (Texas Laws 1846, 1st leg./pp. 42-44)

March 30, 1846 - April 03, 1846


LIBERTY lost to creation of POLK. (Texas Laws 1846, 1st leg./pp. 27-29)

June 27, 1842 - March 30, 1846


[by 27 Jun 1842] LIBERTY gained from MENARD (Judicial County) and TRINITY (Judicial County) when Republic of Texas Supreme Court ruled judicial counties unconstitutional. ("Stockton v. Montgomery" in Dallam, 473-486)

January 22, 1841 - June 27, 1842


LIBERTY lost to creation of MENARD (Judicial County). (Texas Repub. Laws 1840, 5th cong./p. 74)

January 20, 1841 - January 22, 1841


LIBERTY lost to GALVESTON. (Texas Repub. Laws 1840, 5th cong./ p. 45)

February 05, 1840 - January 20, 1841


LIBERTY lost to creation of NORTHERN DIVISION OF LIBERTY (Judicial County). (Texas Repub. Laws 1839, 4th cong./p. 205)

May 15, 1838 - February 05, 1840


LIBERTY lost to creation of GALVESTON. (Texas Repub. Laws 1838, 2d cong., 2d sess./p. 24)

December 18, 1837 - May 15, 1838


LIBERTY gained from HARRISBURG (now HARRIS), and gained all of Non-County Area 1 (which was eliminated); lost to creation of Non-County Area 2. (Texas Repub. Laws 1837, 2d cong., 1st sess./p. 84)

December 14, 1837 - December 18, 1837


LIBERTY lost to creation of MONTGOMERY. (Texas Repub. Laws 1837, 2d cong., 1st sess./p. 33)

January 01, 1836 - December 14, 1837


LIBERTY lost to creation of HARRISBURG (now HARRIS). (Gammel, 1:Ordinances and Decrees, Provisional Govt. Texas, 119)

July 18, 1835 - January 01, 1836


LIBERTY lost to creation of WASHINGTON. ("Documents Relating to the Organization...," 99; Partlow, inside front cover, 326)

January 01, 1834 - July 18, 1835


[1834] LIBERTY lost to creation of BEVIL (now JASPER). ("Bevil, John," New Handbook of Texas, 1:514)

May 05, 1831 - January 01, 1834


LIBERTY (original county) created from NACOGDOCHES; established as a municipality by Mexico. Precise boundaries not described; general area of the municipality mapped. (Partlow, inside front cover, 79-81, 325)

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