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.

Account of items purchased: blankets, comforters, coffee pots, axes, rope, frying pans, tobacco, and other items.

Map of Johnson and Hood Counties, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).

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.