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[Correspondence/petition to Governor E.M. Pease] (open access)

[Correspondence/petition to Governor E.M. Pease]

A letter/petition to Governor E.M. Pease from citizens of La Grange on behalf of Dr. John S. Lewellen, a local citizen who had been convicted and fined for betting on an election. Includes typewritten transcription of the letter/petition.
Date: March 30, 1856
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Post-Civil-War loyalty oath signed by Judge J.B.M. McFarland] (open access)

[Post-Civil-War loyalty oath signed by Judge J.B.M. McFarland]

A document in which J.B.M. McFarland, a judge of the first judicial district, swears that he “neither sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatsoever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States”; a handwritten explanation follows.
Date: September 24, 1867
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History