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: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: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...
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...
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
Judges; Baylor, Robert Emmett Bledsoe; Franklin, Benjamin Cromwell; Williamson, Robert McAlpin [Three Legged Willie]; Mills, John T.; Branch, Edward Thomas
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.