Texas Almanac, 1859 (open access)

Texas Almanac, 1859

The almanac covers general topics about the state of Texas including statistics for individual counties, history, agriculture, expenditures, and weather, as well as discussions of legal and social issues of the time.
Date: 1859~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journey through Texas, or, A saddle-trip on the southwestern frontier : with a statistical appendix (open access)

Journey through Texas, or, A saddle-trip on the southwestern frontier : with a statistical appendix

The observations of Frederick Law Olmsted as he journeyed through Texas in the 1850s.
Date: January 1, 1857
Creator: Olmsted, Frederick Law
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates, Proceedings, Laws, Etc., of the Third Session, Thirty-Fourth Congress (open access)

The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates, Proceedings, Laws, Etc., of the Third Session, Thirty-Fourth Congress

The Congressional Globe contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, speeches, and some legislation for the Senate and House of Representatives.
Date: 1857
Creator: United States. Congress.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Second Session of the Thirty-Fifth Congress: Also of the Special Session of the Senate (open access)

The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Second Session of the Thirty-Fifth Congress: Also of the Special Session of the Senate

The Congressional Globe contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, speeches, and some legislation for the Senate and House of Representatives.
Date: 1859
Creator: United States. Congress.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Congressional Globe, Volume 30: Thirty-Third Congress, Second Session (open access)

The Congressional Globe, Volume 30: Thirty-Third Congress, Second Session

The Congressional Globe contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, speeches, and some legislation for the Senate and House of Representatives.
Date: 1855
Creator: United States. Congress.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Second Session of the Thirty-Fifth Congress: Also of the Special Session of the Senate (open access)

The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Second Session of the Thirty-Fifth Congress: Also of the Special Session of the Senate

The Congressional Globe contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, speeches, and some legislation for the Senate and House of Representatives.
Date: 1859
Creator: United States. Congress.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Travis County Records: Deed Record L-1 (transcript) (open access)

Travis County Records: Deed Record L-1 (transcript)

Recorded copies of Travis County deeds, conveyances, and other muniments of title affecting ownership to real estate from October 1856 to November 1857, including warranty deeds, gift deeds, partition deeds, guardian deeds, quitclaim deeds, royalty deeds, various types of affidavits, appointments and resignations of trustees, trust indentures, transfers of liens, conveyances of liens, assignments of liens, subordination of liens, various types of partial releases, leases, easements, contracts of sale, bills of sale, homestead designations, various types of agreements, powers of attorney, revocations of powers of attorney, restrictions, removals of disabilities (minor, coveture), certified copies of probate proceedings, certified copies of divorce decrees (when real property is divided), extensions, options, rental divisions, and amended restrictions. Specific information includes instrument number, kind of instrument, date and place of execution, names of parties involved, amounts of principal and interest (when applicable), description of property, signatures of parties, and notarization. Also includes recording certificate, showing date filed, date recorded, and signature of county clerk or deputy. Arranged chronologically by date recorded.
Date: 1856-10/1857-11
Creator: Travis County (Tex.). Clerk's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History