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[Receipt of payment]
Receipt of payment from Martha and Michael Reed on the account of William Boyles, signed by William M. Prendergast.
Date:
September 17, 1844
Creator:
Prendergast, William M.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from W. D. Miller to Mrs. Sam Houston, October 10, 1844]
Letter written by W. D. Miller and sent to Mrs. Sam Houston, care of William Bledsoe. The letter reports on General Houston's progress toward Indian peace talks and also mentions a Dr. Hill (George Washington Hill?), Houston's health, and contains a lively description of Sam Houston Jr. The letter was sent from Washington on-the-Brazos to Mrs. Houston in Grand Cane, Liberty County, Texas.
Date:
October 10, 1844
Creator:
Miller, W. D. (Washington D.), 1814-1866
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vertrag
Contract for an advance from the Adelsverein to Friedrich Schafer, dated October 2, 1845. I states that the Adelsverein paid Schafer 81 Gulden, and outlines Schafer's responsibilities to the Adelsverein in return.
Date:
October 2, 1845
Creator:
Verein zum Schutze deutscher Einwanderer in Texas
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Einwanderungs Vertrag
Immigration contract between the Adelsverein and Johann Christoph Schumann, dated October 6, 1845.
Date:
October 6, 1845
Creator:
Verein zum Schutze deutscher Einwanderer in Texas
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
An address on education : delivered before the Educational Convention of Texas, in the city of Houston, January, 1846
Conference publication; Educational convention of Texas, in Houston, 1846; Rev. Chauncey Richardson, President of Rutersville College.
Date:
1846
Creator:
Richardson, Chauncey
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Verein zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas
Promotional pamphlet discussing promises of Texas as a new land to settle Germans in and the logistical requirements for a prospective emigrant to move there with the Adelsverein. The pamphlet also details exactly what support the society will give immigrants in travel and supplies.
Date:
February 7, 1846
Creator:
Verein zum Schutze deutscher Einwanderer in Texas
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Promissory note for Michael Reed]
Promissory note for Michael Reed to pay B.C.[?] Allen in the amount of twenty four dollars on demand.
Date:
May 22, 1846
Creator:
Reed, Michael
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence to Rev. T.H.[?] Rees]
Correspondence from an unknown writer to T.H.[?] Rees concerning his/her arrival in Texas, settlement in lands in Burlisson [Burleson] County close to the Brazos River, and teaching in a local school. The writer speaks of a disappointment from an "Isaiah" and asks Rees to reply with the reasoning as to why Isaiah has hurt the writer.
Date:
June 20, 1846
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Thomas Falconer - June 28, 1846]
Letter from unknown author from Washington [D.C.] to Falconer thanking him for a letter and an article from the Washington Review. The author hopes that the "vexatious" war with Mexico will be cut short and references the border dispute between Oregon and Canada that was settled by the 1846 Oregon Treaty. The letter is incomplete.
Date:
June 28, 1846
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
United States of America, State of Texas
Contract dictating the withdrawal of $200 for Wilhelmine Meyer from the German Emigration and Rail-Road Company.
Date:
January 2, 1847
Creator:
German Emigration and Rail-Road Company
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt of payment]
Receipt of payment from Michael Reed to Jacob Gross, assessor and collector for Milam County, in the amount of twenty dollars and seventy five cents for state and county tax for the year 1847.
Date:
1848
Creator:
Gross, Jacob
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Land survey for Michael Reed]
Land survey for M. [Michael] Reed of 369 acres of land issued to him in Robertson County on February 5, 1838; land surveyed July 3, 1848 and certified by F.A. Thomson. On verso is statement by James Howlet certifying the legality of the survey, dated July 25, 1848.
Date:
July 3, 1848
Creator:
Thomson, F.A.
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt of tax payment from Michael Reed]
Receipt of payment from Michael Reed in the amount of $26.50 for his state and county tax for the year 1848, signed by Jacob Gross on behalf of Milam County.
Date:
1849
Creator:
Gross, Jacob
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Die thätigkeit des somite's seit dem leiten Bericht vom 15 May D.F. Beteffrend
Report from a committee reporting on progress with obtaining unrestricted ownership of the Fisher-Miller Grant from the state of Texas. The report repeatedly mentions the Adelsverein's debts in Texas.
Date:
August 7, 1849
Creator:
Verein zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History