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Anti-Texass Legion: Protest of some free men, states and presses against the Texass rebellion, against the laws of nature and of nations (open access)

Anti-Texass Legion: Protest of some free men, states and presses against the Texass rebellion, against the laws of nature and of nations

Pamphlet from Texana Collection
Date: January 1, 1845
Creator: Anti-Texass Legion
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
How to Conquer Texas, Before Texas Conquers Us (open access)

How to Conquer Texas, Before Texas Conquers Us

Pamphlet discussing the geography of Texas and some political issues surrounding the annexation of Texas into the United States.
Date: January 1, 1845
Creator: Hale, Edward Everett, Sr., 1822-1909
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Address on the annexation of Texas, and the aspect of slavery in the United States, in connection therewith: delivered in Boston November 14 and 18, 1845 (open access)

Address on the annexation of Texas, and the aspect of slavery in the United States, in connection therewith: delivered in Boston November 14 and 18, 1845

Pamphlet from Texana Collection
Date: January 1, 1845
Creator: Phillips, Stephen C.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the First Session of the Twenty-Ninth Congress. (open access)

Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the First Session of the Twenty-Ninth Congress.

Presidential address to the 1845 Congress.
Date: 1845
Creator: United States. Congress. Senate.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Congressional Globe (Permanent Edition) Volume 85: 28th Congress, 2nd session, Appendix (open access)

Congressional Globe (Permanent Edition) Volume 85: 28th Congress, 2nd session, Appendix

Congressional debates and proceedings regarding the annexation of Texas to the United States of America. Only selected pages of the Congressional Globe are reproduced here.
Date: December 31, 1845
Creator: United States. Congress.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Certificate of Election (open access)

Certificate of Election

Certificate naming Benjamin B. Peck the Clerk of the County Court in Gonzales County, Republic of Texas.
Date: January 1, 1845
Creator: Republic of Texas
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Land Grant Deed (open access)

Land Grant Deed

Land grant made out to Marshall B. McKeever.
Date: January 1, 1845
Creator: Texas
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Texas: From the Most Recent Authorities.

Texas north of Red River.
Date: 1845
Creator: Young, James Hamilton
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Speech of Hon. Wm. Lowndes Yancey, of Alabama, on the annexation of Texas to the United States, delivered in the House of Representatives, Jan. 7, 1845. (open access)

Speech of Hon. Wm. Lowndes Yancey, of Alabama, on the annexation of Texas to the United States, delivered in the House of Representatives, Jan. 7, 1845.

A passionate speech supporting the annexation of Texas, given to the House of Representatives.
Date: 1845
Creator: Yancey, William Lowndes
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Republic of Texas Treasury Warrant] (open access)

[Republic of Texas Treasury Warrant]

Republic of Texas treasury warrant 11 August 1845.
Date: August 11, 1845
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter from William L. Delap to George Cupples, March 20, 1845 (open access)

Letter from William L. Delap to George Cupples, March 20, 1845

Discusses the possible good effects of the recent proffer of annexation terms to Texas by the U.S. Congress and Delap's translation of de Zavala's book Ensayo Historico de las Revoluciones de Megico des 1808 hasta 1830
Date: March 20, 1845
Creator: Delap, William
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of Texas Compiled from Surveys on Record in the General Land Office of the Republic of Texas]

Map of Texas, Compiled from Surveys on Record in the General Land Office of the Republic of Texas. Relief shown by hachures. Shows Crosstimbers and roads. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1839, by J.H. Colton, in the Clerks Office of the Southern District of New York." Prime meridians: Washington and Greenwich. Inset: Map of the Rio Grande and the country west to the Pacific. From the Virginia Garrett Cartographic Collections.
Date: 1845
Creator: Hunt, Richard S. & Randel, Jesse F.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Title of Land to John Adkinson (open access)

Title of Land to John Adkinson

Original grant signed by Anson Jones with seal of General Land Office (detached)
Date: July 22, 1845
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Copy of land grant to George H. Bringhurst] (open access)

[Copy of land grant to George H. Bringhurst]

Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor Papers. Copy of land grant to George H. Bringhurst for one-third of a league of land in Harris County and about 28 miles northwest of Houston; granted by President Anson Jones
Date: October 10, 1845
Creator: Jones, Anson
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, on the Effect of the Tariff of 1842; on the Agricultural and Other Interest of the West. (open access)

Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, on the Effect of the Tariff of 1842; on the Agricultural and Other Interest of the West.

Front cover of a letter compiled by a Democratic Convention committee.
Date: 1845
Creator: Democratic Convention
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report submitted by Mr. Archer from the Committee on Foreign Relations concerning the Annexation of Texas (open access)

Report submitted by Mr. Archer from the Committee on Foreign Relations concerning the Annexation of Texas

Report submitted to the 2nd Session of the 28th Congress on February 4th, 1845
Date: February 4, 1845
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
"Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, Relative to the Annexation of Texas" (open access)

"Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, Relative to the Annexation of Texas"

U.S. House, 28th Congress, 2nd Session
Date: March 1, 1845
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Speech of Mr. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, on the Annexation of Texas (open access)

Speech of Mr. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, on the Annexation of Texas

Portion of the speech delivered to the House of Representatives on January 6th, 1845 about the annexation of Texas. (Includes the front cover, pages 8, 9, and 16.)
Date: 1845
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acts and Resolutions Passed at the Second Session of the Twenty-Eighth Congress of the United States (open access)

Acts and Resolutions Passed at the Second Session of the Twenty-Eighth Congress of the United States

Front cover of the documents published by the second session of the 28th Congress of the United States.
Date: 1845
Creator: United States. Congress.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
A New Guide to Texas (open access)

A New Guide to Texas

The cover and title page of the emigrant's Guide to Texas.
Date: 1845
Creator: Hunt, Richard S. & Randel, Jesse F.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washington County legal documents (open access)

Washington County legal documents

Court summons for Alanson Ferguson to appear for Samuel K McIlhaney vs. Alanson Ferguson case
Date: February 2, 1845
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
"Correspondence with Texas, on the Subject of Annexation" (open access)

"Correspondence with Texas, on the Subject of Annexation"

Government document concerning the annexation of Texas; 29th Congress, 1st session, [1846]; At head: "Doc. No. 2. [Documents accompanying the President's message at the commencement of the First Session of the Twenty-Ninth Congress.]"
Date: March 20, 1845
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Bill of sale for slaves, William Murrell to the Estate of Samuel Blair, April 2, 1845] (open access)

[Bill of sale for slaves, William Murrell to the Estate of Samuel Blair, April 2, 1845]

Receipt of payment for slaves from William Murrell to the estate of Samuel Blair.
Date: April 2, 1845
Creator: Hays, Hugh
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History