Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
SHH VII:36
BUSTAMANTE, ANASTASIO, President of Mexico after Santa Anna's capture by the Texans. Broadside signed, Mexico City, November 4, 1839. Military commendation to Jose Maria Duran signed...
Correspondence; Republic of Texas; Houston, Samuel
SHH II:A:2:g
(g) Lengthy private letter dated March 4, [1843?] , Washington City, heavily damaged with some loss of text, 8pp. 9 1/2 x 16 1/2 From: Isaac VAN ZANDT To: Gen. Sam HOUSTON , president of the Republic of Texas Re: Pessimistic view of...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
SHH VII:38
Semanario Politico Del Gobierno De Nuevo Leon, Mier, July 14, 1842. Volume 3 No. 80 of this official Mexican newspaper, widely distributed in the Republic of Texas. Much of the issue...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
SHH VII:35
(BUSTAMANTE, ANASTASIO) Broadside, Mexico City, June 8, 1838 (refers to the Law of January 27, 1838 authorizing a loan of six million pesos) the entry being from Dublan. The present is a...
Carvajal, Jose Maria Jesus; Mexico; Texas; Patriotism
SHH VII:37
(CARVAJAL, JOSE MARIA JESUS) Texas patriot who published the Mexican Laws in English and Spanish. El Mosquito Mexicano, Mexico, January 21, 1840. An account of Sr. Carvajal's abortive efforts to establish an independent Mexican...
Tornel, Jose Maria y Mendivil; Generals; Mexico; Texas
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
SHH VII:47
THE TORNEL PAPERS. A collection of documents from the archive of General Jose Maria Tornel, Mexican Minister of War during the Texas Revolution, TEXT IN SPANISH, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
GONZALES CABOFRANCO, JUAN (GOVERNOR OF PUEBLA. Broadside, June 4, 1845, reprinted Puebla, June 11, 1845. The act provides for the call-up of citizens to defend national independence, arming of all...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:4
CARTWRIGHT, R.G., DS, San Augustine, April 26, 1842. Inventory of slaves in the state of William P. King and receipt for "one negro fellow named Dudly aged about 45 years."...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:6
THOMPSON, JESSE, DS, Fort Bend County, January 16, 1843. Petition for the sale of personal property of Jesse Thompson, dec'd, "except negroes" and appending a list of the negroes...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:14
CRUMPER, D.D., ADS, Brenham, May 22, 1850. Court order for the sale of "two certain negro slaves (a women named Rhoda...about forty-five years old) of black complexion and a...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:19
LONG, WILLIAM, printed and manuscript document signed, Galveston, July 9, 1860.Slave sale of "Betsy aged about 28 years and her four children." 4 pp. 8 1/2 x 12
Houston, Samuel; Correspondence; Republic of Texas
(i) Fragment of letter, n. d., n. p. 4 pp. 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 From ? To: General Sam HOUSTON, President of Texas (by inference from content) Re: Military confrontation between Captain James COOKE of U. S. Dragoons and Colonel Jacob SNIVELY of Texas....
SHH II:A:3:n
September 23, 1861 (Shaw brothers) Letter written by Samuel Shaw to his brother [Harry] from Sandy Creek, Australia. Wages are low and he gets a some work on the reef. He and his brother Edwin are thinking of going to New Zealand to...
SHH II:D:4
LAND SCRIPT, Republic of Texas, No. 778, for 320 acres of land, issued to Thomas TOBY from Sam HOUSTON, President, December 20, 1836. Verso, transferred to David Fay of Brooklyn, New York, his legal representative, signed, Sam C. Reid....
SHH II:C:4
Proclamation "TO THE PEOPLE OF TEXAS" announcing the results ("We have dissolved your connection with the Government known as the United States of America...") of the Secession Convention, Austin, April 6, 1861. An addendum is printed...
SHH II:B:12
[CIVIL WAR] Head Quarters Bates Regiment, Velasco, Texas, July 7th, 1862, Rev. Oscar M. ADDISON has leave of absence for fourteen days, J.E. Love, Adjutant.1 p. 4 1/2 x 8
SHH II:B:4
E.M. PEASE, Hartford, May 23, 1834, letter addressed to Major Gideon WELLES, New Haven, CT. Pease regrets that Welles will be unable to accompany him on his trip west. 4pp. 8 x 12
