Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
SHH VII:39
ALCANCE AL SEMANARIO num. 108 del Jueves, 26 de Enero de 1843. cf. Streeter #961, 985. Reports the apprehension of .el famoso ladron, vago, semibarbaro Trinidad Canales,. a noted...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:1
JAMES WILKINSON, signed, May 22, 1809, statement concerned with receiving a slave called Jess...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:11
MOORE, ROBERT, DS, (Galveston) July 3, 1846. Promissory note for $400 "for value received which may be discharged in a good likely young black woman not more than twenty...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:3
ILIAMS, BASIL G., ADS, Colorado County, February 9, 1842. Legal document regarding the recovery of two slaves "a negro man named George and a girl named Lucy." 2pp. 8 1/2 x...
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:7
TOM, JOSEPH, ADS, Austin Colony, August 11, 1843. Promissory note to W. Pinchard pledging "two gentle cows and calves or twenty dollars" for the hire of his negro...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:2
STEVENSON, ROBERT, ADS (Washington County), September 18, 1838. Promissory note for $267.50 for "the hire of two negroes by the names of Beck and James" (the said negroes to...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:22
BUDD, JOHN, DS, La Grange, January 1, 1864. Pledge of $180 payment for the hire of three slaves "to wit, Aldrick, Nelson and Bubly for the year 1864." 2pp. 5 x 8
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:16
KILLOUGH, NASHE, AD, Cherokee County, (ND). Killough's last will and testament bequeathing to his daughter "my negro woman Pauline with all her present and future...
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...
SHH VI:18
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
PRICE, L.F., ADS, La Grange, June 11, 1860. Slave sale for $1375 of "a certain negro man named Bill...
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...
SHH II:A:3:c
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...
(f) Copy of a letter dated January 28, 1843, Legation de France au Texas, Galveston. 2pp. 7 3/4 x 11 1/4 From: Edouard de CRAMAYEL, Charge D'Affaires de France au Texas [ad interim for Dubois de Saligny while he was on leave in France] To: Anson...
Houston, Samuel; Republic of Texas; correspondence; Indians of North America; Native peoples of North America; Native peoples of the Americas;
SHH II:A:2:l
(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...
SHH II:A:1:g
Letter from " your friend, HANCHETT" to Col YOAKUM dated December 30, 1847 from Austin, and dealing with several legal and political matters of note before ending humorously. 2pp. x 15 3/4 x 10.
SHH II:A:3:e
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:B:2
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
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:D:11
PRE-EMPTION CERTIFICATE. To: Nehemiah PAGE, November 28, 1860. From: Sam HOUSTON, Governor of the State of Texas. No. 378. Signed, SAM HOUSTON, Governor, also Francis M. WHITE, Commissioner. 2pp. 13 x 10 3/4
