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...
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...
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: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...
SHH II:D:8
SUMMONS,WASHINGTON COUNTY, TEXAS. To: H. D. MCCRARY to answer petition of M. B. LAMAR filed against MCCRARY, Robt. STEVENSON & Asa HOXEY-June 7,1843. 2pp. 7 1/2 x 71/2
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.
Judges; Baylor, Robert Emmett Bledsoe; Franklin, Benjamin Cromwell; Williamson, Robert McAlpin [Three Legged Willie]; Mills, John T.; Branch, Edward Thomas
