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Receipt from Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers, January 15, 1865

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Title	Receipt from Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers, January 15, 1865
Subject	Records (Information) Confederate States of America Agricultural productivity
Description	Quartermaster's Stores Receipts & Inventory: To L. T. Barret, 1863 - 1865
Date	1865-01-15
Collection	Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers
Collection Identifer	A5, Box2, Folder12
Collection Link	http://library.sfasu.edu/findingaids/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=13
Biographical Note	Lyne Taliaferro (Tol) Barret, pioneer oilman, was born at Appomattox, Virginia, on November 7, 1832. His family moved to Texas in 1842, first to San Augustine County, and then to the Barret plantation at Melrose. Barret began his career as a clerk and by 1862 had become a partner in the mercantile firm Hardeman Brothers and Barret. He first became interested in the oil industry before the Civil War and contracted with Lucy W. Skillern to lease 279 acres near Oil Springs in 1859, but the war stopped his preparations. From about 1863 to 1865 he served as captain of the Quartermaster Corps, Confederate States of America, for the Nacogdoches district. After the war, Barret, Benjamin P. Hollingsworth, Charles A. Hamilton, John T. Flint, and John B. Earle organized the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company. Drilling began at Oil Springs during the summer of 1866 and resulted in the first producing oil well in the state. Due to the low price of oil and the political unrest caused by Reconstruction, the venture was a financial loss for Barret, who returned to the mercantile business in Melrose. L. T. Barret was a Mason, secretary of the Melrose Methodist Church, and served as justice of the peace in Melrose in 1862 and 1899. He married Angelina Martha Thomas on August 26, 1857, and they had eleven children. Barret died in Melrose on March 23, 1913. (Devereaux, Linda E., "Barret, Lyne Taliaferro" The New Handbook of Texas, 1996)
Scope and Content Note	This collection includes correspondences, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).
Associated Dates	1860-1869
Type	Financial & Legal Records
Repository	East Texas Research Center
Repository Link	http://library.sfasu.edu/etrc/
Rights	This item may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. It is available for non-commercial research and education. For permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the East Texas Research Center at asketrc@sfasu.edu.

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Title	Receipt from Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers, January 15, 1865 - Page 1
Collection Identifer	A5, Box2, Folder12
Rights	This item may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. It is available for non-commercial research and education. For permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the East Texas Research Center at asketrc@sfasu.edu.