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[Transcript of partnership agreement between John Cummins and Stephen F. Austin, August 17, 1829]
Copy of transcript for a partnership agreement between John Cummins and Stephen F. Austin for the development of a silver mine near the Trinity River.
Date:
August 17, 1829
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Col. Nicholas Copeland letter to Martin Bridgman, April 25, 1835]
1835 letter of Col. Nicholas Copeland to his son-in-law Martin Bridgman of Arkansas, enticing him to move to Texas. The letter discusses the price of land and cattle, as well as the profitability of crops such as cotton and corn. Copeland adds a note for Harry Currin, a free African-American, stating that Texas is a safe place to settle. His land grant (settlement & fortification) described in the letter was 25 miles west of the Trinity River just before crossing the Navasota River. This letter was written at Robbins' Ferry on the Old San Antonio Road at the crossing of the Trinity River (letters went east from there to be carried & put in the US mail system).
Date:
April 25, 1835
Creator:
Copeland, Nicholas
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Oath of Service in the Western Frontier of Texas for Elijah Collar]
Oath of service in the Western frontier of Texas for Elijah Collar in the fall of 1842 under General Wall. The oath was taken by James J. Allphin and tracked where Private Collar went in the Western frontier. It stated that he served in R. Williams's company as a private. On the bottom, a notary public, James S. Fai[rl]y, certified the oath and added his seal to the paper.
Date:
July 5, 1854
Creator:
Madison County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Youngland District
Blueline print of survey map of Youngland District, showing blocks of land, rivers, creeks, and land grants. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map. No scale information given.
Date:
1857
Creator:
Matthews, R. H.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Madison County
Map of Madison County, Texas, including the Piney Woods region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
June 1858
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Madison County
Cadastral map of Madison County, Texas in the Piney Woods region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
November 1871
Creator:
Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Madison County
Map of Madison County, Texas,including the Piney Woods region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
November 1871
Creator:
Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "consists in the point made with a land-side, fitting into a rabbet in the land-side of the standard, and made thicker and deeper than said rabbet, so as to project beyond and below said land-side to receive the wear" (para. 5).
Date:
December 11, 1877
Creator:
Dawson, William Wyatt
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
COMPOSITION FOR WHITEWASH.
Patent for formula used in whitewashing homes, walls, fences. etc. with ingredients and instructions included.
Date:
April 20, 1880
Creator:
Kerr, Archibald Henderson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Madison County
Map of Madison County, Texas, including the Piney Woods region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
September 1880
Creator:
Matthews, Sam. P.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence.
Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "ha[s] its rails arranged diagonally to the line of fencing, consisting of the double end posts, bound together at their upper ends by means of the crown-wire . . . the intermediate single posts, the horizontal rails having their ends alternately lapping the inner and outer sides of the said single posts, the transverse blocks, interposed between the respective rails, and the top rails bound to the single posts by means of the wire loops" (lines 78-88).
Date:
May 20, 1884
Creator:
Ford, Benjamin Franklin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Sweep.
Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton sweep. This design "is to provide an improved sweep for the cultivation of corn, cane, and cotton plants while they are young, which shall be capable of adjustment to plow-stocks of any class; to provide removable wings which can be applied or detached when it is desired to throw the dirt or soil to either the right or left; and to provide a removable point which can be replaced when it is worn out with another point of similar construction and thus render the sweep as good as new and save the farmer the cost of a new sweep" (lines 16-27).
Date:
September 28, 1886
Creator:
Lewis, Samuel Timothy & Babb, John Hendrick
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the plow-beam, of the plow-standard hinged to a crank-rod journaled in the plow-beam, the tension-spring connected to the plow-standard and provided with the adjustable plate, and the key or rod for securing the adjusting-plate in place" (lines 83-88).
Date:
February 1, 1887
Creator:
Ross, Albert J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter
Patent for "a planter which is adapted to be connected to the frame of a sulky-cultivator and operated by one of the wheels thereof," (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1887
Creator:
Hyde, Richard Edmund
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "the frame, drum, the power-ropes to be wound thereon, and the platen combined with the levers having rounded upper and lower ends to operate in rounded sockets in the said platen and the upper part of the frame and the toggle-joints near the centers of the said levers, comprising the rounded projection on one of the members adapted to fit a corresponding cavity or recess in the adjacent end of the other member, the lateral ears and the pin to pass through said ears and the rounded projection" (lines 12-23).
Date:
May 15, 1888
Creator:
Bartle, John Nelson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway Signal.
Patent for a new and improved railroad signal. This design, "[w]hen the wheels of a passing train come in contact with the spring and bent end of the lever . . . said end is lowered or depressed, causing the movement in the same direction of the outer end of said lever, which, through the agency of the wire, will cause the ringing or sounding of the gong or bell as the wheels . . . come in contact with the end of the lever. . . .[A]fter the wheels of the last car of a train have passed the point where the lever is located, said lever will be returned to its normal position by means of the coil-spring" (lines 57-71).
Date:
October 16, 1888
Creator:
Ross, Albert James & Darter, John T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whitewash
Patent for "improvement in whitewash-paint consists in the use of certain ingredients whereby the same is rendered more permanent or durable and beautiful in color than any other article of the kind hitherto produced" (lines 10-14).
Date:
April 9, 1889
Creator:
Brizzolari, Davis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to produce . . . cultivators [that] can be adjusted laterally in relation to each other and turned at any desirable angle, and in which the frame and the beam can be made to stand at any desired angle to each other" (lines 17-23). It consists in "a semicircular frame, two vertical plates secured to the ends of the said frame and having their upper edges serrated, blocks placed between the plates, the plates, bolts for clamping them to opposite edges of the vertical plates, and the cultivators which pass through the plates and the beam" (lines 8-15).
Date:
December 16, 1890
Creator:
Ford, John Owen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient adjustable corn or cotton planter. It has a frame, ground-wheel, furrow opening and closing apparatuses, a hopper, seeding devices, a crank-arm, an agitator shift, a set-screw, a crank-pin, and bearings on the sides of the hopper.
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Brown, Mathias
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator that is easily constructed and adjusted. It has a beam, parallel bars extending its length, a block between the front ends of the bars, an adjustable bar that carries the teeth, and clamping plates above and below the bar.
Date:
March 12, 1895
Creator:
Ford, John O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Boiler-Feeder.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in automatic boiler feeders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 12, 1898
Creator:
Sharp, Joshua H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insulator.
Patent for Insulator. This invention is related to new type of insulators whereas which provides support to hanging telephone wires and also securely insulates them.
Date:
April 14, 1903
Creator:
Claydon, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin
Patent for a single piece wire clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date:
February 27, 1906
Creator:
Rumfield, Henry I. & Donaho, James R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Press-Sweep
Patent for a press sweep to be used with two baling presses. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 3, 1910
Creator:
Wakefield, Richard A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History