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[Receipt for sale of slave to A. D. Kennard, October 10, 1842]
Receipt for sale of a slave from Thomas Smith to A.D. Kennard. She is described as a 14 year old girl named Adlin.
Date:
October 10, 1842
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Bill of Sale for A. D. Kennard, May 12,1857]
Bill of Sale for A.D. Kennard from David M.Smith regarding a slave named Harris. On the back is a witness account of sale.
Date:
May 12, 1857
Creator:
Smith, David M.
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Johnson County
Map of Johnson County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Peter's Colony line is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
October 16, 1857
Creator:
Martin, Joseph
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Johnson County
Map of Johnson County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. The center of Johnson County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
June 1859
Creator:
Grothaus, Fredrick
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Commissary Report of Johnson County Rangers, January 12, 1861]
Account of items purchased: blankets, comforters, coffee pots, axes, rope, frying pans, tobacco, and other items.
Date:
1861-01-12~
Creator:
Johnson County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Court summons issued to A.D. Kennard, September 8, 1862]
Summons to A.D. Kennard requesting his appearance in Buchanan, Johnson County, as a defendant in a case with Hiram Bayes, plaintiff, on September 8th, 1862.
Date:
September 8, 1862
Creator:
Hines, James
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Johnson County
Map of Johnson and Hood Counties, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
April 1863
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Plow-Carrier and Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvement in combined plow-carrier and cotton-chopper by “combining with a plow-carrier, a revolving wheel, placed at right angles with the line of direction of the plows, and provided with a number of horizontal cutters at the ends of its spokes, for the purpose of cutting square across the ridges of earth cast up by the plows, in which cotton seed is sown, and dividing the ridges into isolated hills, each containing one or more cotton-plants.” (Lines 23-29) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 18, 1869
Creator:
Kirtley, Fielding L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Scrapers and Choppers.
Patent for improvement in cotton scrapers and choppers by way of the innovative placement of plows.
Date:
November 8, 1870
Creator:
Hale, Nathan
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Woman Wearing a Checked Dress]
Photograph of a woman wearing a checked dress with contrasting trim.
Date:
1872~/1873~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Bill of Sale for Cattle, February 1873]
Bill of sale of cattle from Mark L. Kennard to A.D. Kennard.
Date:
February 6, 1873
Creator:
Kennard, Mark L. & Kennard, A. D.
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Cleburne Chronicle. (Cleburne, Tex.), No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 4, 1873
Weekly newspaper from Cleburne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 4, 1873
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cleburne Chronicle. (Cleburne, Tex.), Vol. [6], No. [19], Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1874
Weekly newspaper from Cleburne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 29, 1874
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cleburne Chronicle. (Cleburne, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. [20], Ed. 1 Thursday, February 5, 1874
Weekly newspaper from Cleburne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 5, 1874
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Horse-Powers.
Patent for a "means for driving cotton-gins and other light machinery by animal power; and it relates to that form of animal-power apparatus termed the vertical tread-wheel." (Lines 6-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 12, 1874
Creator:
Powell, James M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Johnson County
Map of Johnson County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
June 1874
Creator:
Thielepape, George J. & Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
Patent for a new and improved hay and cotton press, including illustrations.
Date:
July 3, 1874
Creator:
Kirtley, Fielding L
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Guide-Wheels for Car-Trucks.
Patent for a "device or attachment to car-trucks, &c., for preventing their being thrown off the track." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 17, 1874
Creator:
Hale, Nathan M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of a Woman Wearing Fur Collar]
Photograph of a woman wearing a dark dress, fur collar, and pearl jewelry.
Date:
1875~/1885~
Creator:
Lindgren, J. A.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Brakes.
Patent for "car-brakes that work automatically and without manual intervention as soon as the locomotive is stopped." (Lines 12-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1875
Creator:
Kirtley, Fielding L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Brakes.
Patent for "a means for the automatic application of brakes to the cars of a railway-train; and it consists in a loosely-moving draw-bar attached to the car by means of bolts passing through a central longitudinal slot, and having its sides wrought into two rack-bars, which mesh with pinions upon two windlass-shafts; which arrangement, when the locomotive is "slowed," causes the impact of the cars to drive up the draw-bars and wind up cords upon the windlass-shafts, which communicated with and apply the brakes to the wheels." (Lines 11-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1875
Creator:
Kirtley, Fielding L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for improvement in bale-ties. "This invention relates to that class of ties or hoops for cotton-bales, in which the band of hoop iron is provided with rigid hooks, studs, or buttons, and matching perforations as means for adjustably uniting the ends."
Date:
October 23, 1875
Creator:
Powell, Amos N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheel-Cultivators.
Patent for "an improved wheel-cultivator, which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted for use in marking the ground, covering the seed, and cultivating the plants." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 25, 1876
Creator:
Riddle, William N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sulky-Plows.
Patent for an invention of a new and improved sulky-plow, "which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted to cause the plow to take or leave land, and to work at any desired depth in the ground, which will enable the plow to be readily raised from the ground" (lines 13-17). Illustrations included.
Date:
February 20, 1877
Creator:
Riddle, William N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History