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One Set Military Maps of the Texas Revolution to Accompany "Texas Independence." 1835-36. By Col. A.J. Houston (10 maps). F390.H82 (shelved beneath Texas Independence in stacks). a) "Map of the Battle of San Jacinto. Map of the...
Houston, Samuel; Republic of Texas; correspondence; Indians of North America; Native peoples of North America; Native peoples of the Americas;
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(l) Letter dated April 10, 1844, Fannin County, Texas 2pp. 7 1/2 x 12 3/4 From: Gibson MAY, Indian Agent (sent in care of William Thompson) To: General Sam HOUSTON, President of the Republic of Texas Re: Report on relative lack of...
Thirty documents represents original papers signed by a number of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300"[among the earliest Anglo settlers]. They were assembled by a rare books dealer for James L. Britton, III, who donated them to SHSU.
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
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ALS, Camargo (Mexico), May 26, 1847. Lewis W. HUTCHINS of the North Carolina Regiment of Volunteers, Company B, writes to James TILLY in Dresden, Tennessee. His impressions of...
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BOND of the REPUBLIC OF TEXAS, (issued in the amount of $100), to William H.H.JOHNSTON, April 20, 1840. Southern Bank Note Co., Endicott & Clark, New Orleans. 2 pp. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2
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DANIEL, JOSIAH O., ADS, Fayette County, April 26, 1845. Inventory and appraisal of the estate of Alexander Brown. 250 acres of land including the homestead are valued at $750 whilst "one negro man named Abram" is valued at $325. 4pp. 8 x...
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David G. BURNET, Acting Secretary of State, Department of State, Houston, May 29, 1839, letter to the County Surveyor or his Deputy of the County of Bexar, instructing him to locate and survey land for the establishment of an education...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
DICKERSON, WILLIAM, ADS, San Augustine, March 1866. Petition to the court requesting that a colored girl named Lucinda be bound to the petitioner for a period of eighteen years in exchange...
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E.M. PEASE, Hartford, Connecticut, on December 31, 1833, letter addressed to Major Gideon Welles, Washington City. Pease, Governor of Texas 1853-57 and 1867-69, had not yet emigrated to Texas. 2pp. 10 x 8
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GRANT. To: Burrell E. PREWITT (for land in Trinity county), 19 November 1860. From: Sam HOUSTON, Governor of the State of Texas. No. 601, Vol. 25. Signed, SAM HOUSTON, also Francis M. WHITE, Commissioner. 2pp. 13 1/2 x 10 3/4
GRANT. To: S. T. ROBB, October 13, 1882. From: O. M. ROBERTS, Governor of the State of Texas. Granting land in Trinity County. No. 596, Vol.2. Signed O. M. ROBERTS, also, W. C. MARSH, Commissioner. 2pp. 13 x 10 3/4
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GRANT. To: Samuel FRENCH , 16 April 1821. From: James MONROE, President of the United States of America. Land in the territory of Arkansas. Signed, JAMES MONROE, also Josiah Meigs, Commissioner. 1pp. 10 1/2 X 9
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[CIVIL WAR] Guy M. Bryan, printed address to the people of the state of Texas urging that the legislature be called into special session and criticizing Governor Houston for not having done so. Printed at Galveston, December 29th,...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
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JAMES WILKINSON, signed, May 22, 1809, statement concerned with receiving a slave called Jess...
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January 16th 1870 Letter from Margaret Thornton and F. D. Thornton to her cousins Harry and Emma Shaw describing Christmas in Huntsville and relating how members of her church raised money to pay off the church's debt by the first of...
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January 5th 1879 Letter from Margaret Thornton to her cousin Harrie Shaw thanking him for the newspapers and a box he sent. She also describes how cold it can get in east Texas, having to "thaw the ink". She comments on world affairs...
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John FORSYTH, [U.S. Secretary of State 1834-1841], Washington, 21 April1838, letter to of introduction Andrew STEVENSON, Esq., for Francis O.J. SMITH, Esq., member of the House of Representatives of the United States from Maine. 1p. 10...
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July 17th, 1870 Letter from Margaret Thornton to a Shaw cousin describing the type of person who should immigrate to Texas, someone with a trade not a factory worker. 2pp. 8 x 10.
THORNTON PAPERS This collection is comprised of 13...
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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....
