Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
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CUEVAS, LUIS G., Comunicaciones Relativas a la Agregacion del Departamento de Tejas a los Estados Unidos del Norte, que ha pasado el Supremo Gobierno de la Republica a la Camara de...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
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DE LEON, MARTIN, Mexican Empresario and founder of Victoria, Texas. Document signed, Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de Jesus Victoria, November 27, 1826. An original De Leon grant for land at...
De Los Santos, Jose Guadalupe; Mexico; troop movements
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
DE LOS SANTOS, JOSE GUADALUPE, Alcalde at La Bahia, document signed, La Bahia, March 22, 1828. Order for and list of Mexican troops posted at La Bahia. 2 pp. 8 1/2 x 12, TEXT IN SPANISH.
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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...
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October 7th, 1879 Letter from Margaret Thornton to her cousin Emma Shaw asking about her relative in England and hopes that Harry will come to visit. She states business is "dull" and "money sparse" since crops have been poor for...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
FILISOLA, VICENTE, Mexican General who led the retreat out of Texas after the Battle of San Jacinto. Manuscript document signed, Matamoros, May 26, 1837. Filisola's warning to the Mexican deserters of...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
GACETA DEL GOBIERNO, Supremo de Estado de Coahuila y Tejas, Num. 40, Miercoles 29 de Enero de 1834. 4 pp. 8 1/2 x 12, TEXT IN SPANISH.
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Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
GACETA DEL GOBIERNO, Supremo de Estado de Coahuila y Tejas, Num. 48, Miercoles 26 de Marzo de 1834. 4 pp. 8 1/2 x 12, TEXT IN SPANISH.
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Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
GONZALES CABOFRANCO, JUAN (GOVERNOR OF PUEBLA. Broadside, June 4, 1845, reprinted Puebla, June 11, 1845. The act provides for the call-up of citizens to defend national independence, arming of all...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
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(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...
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Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
GUERRERO, VICENTE. Broadside, Mexico, September 15, 1829. In a landmark decree, unknown to Streeter, Mexico abolishes slavery and becomes the first Western Hemisphere state to do so. 1...
Gutierrez de Estrada, Jose Maria; Mexico; Texas; Politics
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
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GUTIERREZ DE ESTRADA, JOSE MARIA, Decree of the Congreso General continuing Santa Anna's Decree of 2 December 1834 regarding the restoration of order in Coahuila and Texas. Folio...
Houston, Samuel; Correspondence; Republic of Texas
(i) Fragment of letter, n. d., n. p. 4 pp. 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 From ? To: General Sam HOUSTON, President of Texas (by inference from content) Re: Military confrontation between Captain James COOKE of U. S. Dragoons and Colonel Jacob SNIVELY of Texas....
Houston, Samuel; Republic of Texas; correspondence
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(a) Letter (copy) - dated June 1, 1838, Houston ,Texas 1p. 8 x 9 1/2 From: SAM HOUSTON, President of the Republic of Texas To: William M. SHEPHERD, Secretary of the [Texas] Navy Re: President Houston upbraids his Secretary 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...
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(d) Letter dated December 24, 1842, Washington City [D. C.] From: Isaac VAN ZANDT, Charge D'Affaires, Texas to the United States To: SAM HOUSTON in Washington, Texas Re: Detailed report of the progress and possibilities of Texas'...
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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...
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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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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...
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...
