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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
Map of Texas and the Country Adjacent
Hand-colored lithograph of Texas with statistics and references in lower left
Date:
1844
Creator:
Emory, William H. (William Hemsley), 1811-1887
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of Messrs. Butler and Lewis relative to the Indians of Texas and the southwestern prairies
Descriptions of Texas Indians of the Republic period; mention of captive Parker children
Date:
February 8, 1847
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Summons for Isaac Mitchell
Summons for Isaac Mitchell to appear before the District Court judge in Washington County regarding petition of H. Chiairs and Samuel P. Baskins. Handwritten in ink.
Date:
February 22, 1840
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mexico & Guatemala
Hand-colored engraving of Mexico and Guatemala showing towns, rivers, and topography
Date:
1842
Creator:
Findlay, Alexander G.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lace collar
Black lace fichu sewn into mesh-like material; from Calais, Vermont, dating before 1840.
Date:
[..1840]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[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
[Commission for Justice of the Peace]
Commission by A.C. Horton, Governor of Texas, appointing John H. Seward as Justice of the Peace for Washington County.
Date:
October 8, 1846
Creator:
Horton, Albert C.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Court Order
James B. Miller, administrator for the estate of William Barret Travis, ordered to collect $13.55 from James H. Holt by the County Court of Washington County
Date:
July 1, 1847
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dress
Embroidered baby dress with some open work made by Mrs. Anson Jones for her son, Cromwell Anson Jones, b.1849, Barrington
Date:
1849
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Enlistees of F Company, 1st Regiment of Infantry, Texas Army]
Listing of soldiers who received bounties from Captain J.B.P. January for enlisting in F Company of the First Regiment of Infantry, Texas Army. January led the company as part of Colonel Edward Burleson's 1839-40 campaign against Comanches in northwestern Texas.
Date:
[1840-01-28..]
Creator:
January, J. B. P.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
"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
Washington County legal documents
Memorandum of Agreement between Samuel Wilson and Guy Stokes to race horses at Autry's track near Washington following the rules of the Nashville, TN course.
Date:
1847
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock certificate
Printed $500 Certificate of Stock in the Consolidated Fund of Texas to Joseph Eldredge, June 15, 1840
Date:
1840~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Summons for John M. Brown]
Court summons for John M. Brown to appear in Union Bank of Mississippi vs. John M. Brown case.
Date:
March 4, 1843
Creator:
Washington County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Washington County legal documents
Notice of sale of "printing press type labels cases" for the paper "Texian & Brasos Farmer" and the "National Vindicator" for payment of two promissory notes executed by Thomas Johnson for benefit of G.H. Harrison
Date:
1846
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washington County documents
Transcript of appeal of Thomas Wooldridge against Mississippi Union Bank regarding bank insolvency.
Date:
1847~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Treasury warrant
Treasury warrant for $237.50 from the Republic of Texas to William Ochiltree, Washington, for compensation of Chief Justice and seven associate judges; signed by auditor H.W. Raglin and comptroller James B. Shaw
Date:
1844
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washington County legal documents
Bill of sale from Alex Trotter to George Sneed for receipt of $200 for twelve year old male slave
Date:
1841
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washington County legal documents
Writ requesting Sheriff to summon Andrew Crawford for court appearance to answer petition of Thomas Reed
Date:
September 7, 1841
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from William Grimes to Jesse Grimes, January 1, 1846]
Papers of Jesse Grimes. Letter from William Grimes to Jesse Grimes, concerns horse sale and immigration. Mentions F.H. Womack, E.G. Collier, John Dunbar, Albert Grimes, Mrs. Pew, Joseph Black, and Judge Lister.
Date:
January 1, 1846
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from W.B. Ochiltree to Jesse Grimes, November 27, 1847]
Papers of Jesse Grimes. Letter from W.B. Ochiltree to Jesse Grimes, concerns nomination of district judge. Mentions Amos Clark and murderer David L. Ray.
Date:
November 27, 1847
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from L. Pilsbury to Jesse Grimes]
Papers of Jesse Grimes. Letter from L. Pilsbury to Jesse Grimes, concerns mail route
Date:
January 20, 1848
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History