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Improved Steering and Turning Apparatus for Vessels. (open access)

Improved Steering and Turning Apparatus for Vessels.

Patent for improvements in steering vessels: "by means of rotary paddle wheels the blades of which are arranged parallel to keel" (lines 21-23).
Date: May 29, 1866
Creator: Forshey, Caleb G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to nephew from Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor, October 2, 1866] (open access)

[Letter to nephew from Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor, October 2, 1866]

Letter to nephew from R.E.B. Baylor regarding coming to Texas, bringing negro employees, condition of negroes in Independence, and family matters. Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor Papers.
Date: October 1866
Creator: Baylor, R. E. B. (Robert Emmett Bledsoe), 1793-1873
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Minutes of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Union Baptist Association, 1866 (open access)

Minutes of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Union Baptist Association, 1866

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Union Baptist Association in Texas include accounts of proceedings at the session, committee reports, statistics regarding Baptist churches in Texas, and other relevant notes and commentaries.
Date: 1866
Creator: Union Baptist Association (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History