Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
DOMINGUEZ, MIGUEL, Broadside, Mexico City, May 16, 1824. Decreto No. 45 created the state of Coahuila and Texas but provided that when Texas attained sufficient population it would be granted separate...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
SHH VII:12
(GUERRERO, VICENTE RAMON), President of Mexico,1829. Broadside signed in type, Mexico City, May 5, 1824. The first indication given the Texas colonists that their interests were not...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
SHH VII:15
VERAMENDI, JUAN MARTIN de. Lista que Manifiesta el prestamo y Donativo Voluntario que en reales y efectos han hecho los Pueblos del Estado para el Establecimiento de la Fabrica de...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
SHH VII:23
Photographed copy of petition of "los habitantes de Texas en convencion" to the "Soberano Congreso General de la Federacion Mexicana," requesting separate statehood for Texas, at that...
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...
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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Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:13
YERGER, SAMUEL, ADS, Galveston, June 16, 1847. Petition for the recovery of slaves "named George and John who... were fraudulently and clandestinely removed...from...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:20
COCKS, JAMES, DS, Galveston, March 13, 1861. Deed of Trust pleading "that certain negroes named Mary, of black color and aged about nine years" for the payment of...
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Order #13 to Henderson YOAKUM by order of Col. LINDSAY, from Headquarters Western District of the Cherokee Nation, Wills Valley, dated July 2nd, 1838. 3pp. 8 x 10
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October 2 [1867] (yellow fever letter) Letter from Margaret Thornton to her cousins Harry and Emma Shaw describing her return trip from England to Huntsville, Texas. 8pp. 8 1/2 x 10.
THORNTON PAPERS This collection is comprised of...
SHH II:A:3:b
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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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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March 1 [1871] Letter from Margaret Thornton to her cousin Emma Shaw relating family news, children in school, Mr. Thornton building a house fifty miles away. She is glad that the "Franco and Prussian war" ended before her cousin...
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November 19 [1871] Letter from Margaret Thornton to her Henry (Harrie) Shaw asking for news from England. She describes the health of her family. 2pp. 10 x 8
THORNTON PAPERS This collection is comprised of 13 letters written by...
SHH II:A:3:f
November 23rd, 1873 Letter from Margaret Thornton to her cousin Emma (Shaw) describes effect of a spring and summer weather on crops. She says that the coming election should "be the death of the Radicals." 4pp. 10 x 7...
SHH II:A:3:g
January] 14th, 1877 Letter from Margaret Thornton to her cousin Harry Shaw thanking him for the papers he sent and asking for news about her family in England. She relates that they are anxious about the next election, "that there is...
SHH II:A:3:h
May 9, 1878 Letter (written on International & Great Northern R. R. stationary) from Margaret Thornton to her cousin Harry Shaw describing the loss of the family's home and all their belongings to a fire that consumed an entire block...
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June 28th, 1878 Letter from Margaret Thornton to her cousin Maria Wolstenhome describing loss of the family's home and belongings to the fire in May. She relates that friends have helped and that they have lumber to build a house...
