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"N. Clay" Two and one-half pages, 7.75" x 12.5", Austin's Colony [Texas], April, 28, 1832, in ink, to his father about his latest "campaign against the Indians." It reads, in part: "We traveled about 300 miles up the Colorado...and saw no Indians, but we got a chance of ...
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Two pages on Texas Veteran Association letterhead, 8.25" x 11", Austin, August 15, 1902. Written in pencil on lined paper and addressed to John Henninger Reagan, it is a friendly letter in which Lubbock turns down an invitation to visit. It reads in part: "I...at present think it best to rem...
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Henry McArdle Autograph Document Twice Signed. One page, 19" x 6". Handwritten, in pencil. A key to the painting The Battle of San Jacinto (1895) listing the Texans and Mexicans portrayed. Both signatures are located along the top margin. Some prominent figures in...
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Six pages (on 2 bifoliums), 8.25" x 11.5", Mexico, January 9, 1822.
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"David Crockett." One page, 7.75" x 2", Washington, February 24, 1829. Folk hero David Crockett was representing western Tennessee as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives when he signed this promissory note to payee Bob McHatton for the sum of $700. The note reads i...
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One page, 6.25" x 3.5". Washington [Texas], February 15, 1844. Boldly endorsed by Houston with his ornate paraph on the verso. Signed "Charles Mason" as Auditor and "James B. Shaw" as Comptroller. In full: "The Treasurer of the Republic of Texas will pay to the Order of S...
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Three pages, bifolium to 8" x 12.5", Austin County, March 16, 1839. The election was held "for the purpose of Electing one Captain one first and one second Lieutenant for Beat No. 3 in the above [Austin] County." Two columns of thirty-four names are found below on the first ...
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Two pages, 8.5" x 13.75", Harris County, June 16, 1859. Engrossed in his own hand, Fisher is selling to Theodore D. Ormsby for "Thirty two Dollars to me in hand...onehundred [sic] and sixty acres, situated in Fisher & Millers colony...together with all and singular the rights, membe...
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One page, 8" x 5.25", Mine au Burton [Louisiana Territory], October 24, 1806. Austin writes three lines at the bottom of a promissory note by Mr. Whittlesey to pay seventy dollars by May of 1809. Austin's text reads in full: "On condition Mr. Whittlesey should not be capable to pay the above I...
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One page, 7.75" x 2.75", n. p, July 19, 1838, promising to pay "George C. Lucas One hundred & fifty Dollars for the use of his compass three months." Texas Ranger John S. "RIP" Ford was a journalist and newspaper editor, a physician, an explorer, a congressman, and a valiant soldier wh...
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One partially-printed vellum page, 15.75" x 13.5", Austin, October 10, 1845, granting Lovick P. Moore and his heirs land in Goliad County. Jones' large signature and paraph are located in the lower right corner. A blind-embossed paper seal is in the lower left corner. Heavy folds with some fading...
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One page, 8" x 10", partially printed on blue paper, San Augustine, April 4, 1839, issued to Washington P. Mann who declares: "that I in was a resident Citizen of Texas previous to the first of October 1838, and that I intend remaining permanently in the country...and consider myself justly en...
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Twelve and one-half pages, 8.25" x 10.25", on blue, lined paper, Brownsville, October 4, 1864. Translated into English by N[estor] Maxan on fourteen, 5.25" x 8" pages, written on the verso only. Written to Ford by four officers in the army of Juan Nepomuceno Cortina, Colonel Julian Cerda
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Four pages of a bifolium, 8.5" x 12.5", "Villa del Refugio", September 20, 1834. The deed begins: " El ciudadano Jose Jesus Vidaurri, commissioned by the Supreme Government of the State, for the establishment of the colony contracted by the Empresarios Power and Hewetson..."...
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in Gonzales. Two pages (front and back) on "Coahuila Y Tejas" seal paper, 8.25" x 12.25", Gonzales, December 24, 1833. The document states that George W. Davis is entitled to two lots of land, in accordance with "article 30 of the colonization law of March 24, 1825." Davis signs on the...
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Signing as "Alcalde" of the jurisdiction of Austin, Chriesman grants the "colonist Benj McKinney passage to the United States of the North" for business purposes. Some restoration to the separations at the folds on verso, with dampstaining and toning.

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Two pages of a bifolium, 10.25" x 15.25", Mexico, November 18, 1865. Maximiliano appoints Don Paulino Raigosa to the post of Imperial Commissioner of the Sixth Division. Signed "Maximiliano" at the top of page two. With slight dampstaining affecting the bottom right margins of the doc...
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Two pages, 10.25" x 16.5", partially printed on blue paper, in Spanish, Mexico City, July 3, 1862, conferring the rank of Colonel of Cavalry on Mariano Escobedo. Two months before his appointment, on May 5, Escobedo had taken part in the Battle of Puebla where invading French forces sent by Napol...
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One and one-half pages, 8.5" x 10.5", "near Lynchburg, Harris Cy," October 20, 1856, to "His Excellency" Texas Governor Elisha M. Pease, he writes in full:

"I have not seen the laws providing for a State Engineer and assistant; but understand that the assistant is ...
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One page, 15" x 12.5" (sight), partially printed on vellum, Austin, August 28, 1845, granting "Edmund Tucker...Three 618.440/1000.000 Labors of Land...In Fannin County, on Mineral Creek." Blind embossed paper seal of the general land office affixed at bottom left. Folds and uneven toni...
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Signed on seal paper. One page, 12" x 17", Durango, dated July 7, 1802. Untranslated, but content regarding land values, and mandating that claimed land be settled and cultivated within a year. With seals from the reign of both Carolus IV and Carolus III along the left margin, and sig...
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Oversized "vando" broadside on seal paper, 16.25" x 23.25", issued by Don Martin de Mayorga, Viceroy of New Spain. Dated Mexico, December 14, 1779, the broadside announces the embargo issued by Charles III, King of Spain, against England. Mayorga has signed with is paraph directly bene...
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"Vando" broadside, 17" x 23.5", made up of two sheets of seal paper, issued in Chihuahua on June 28, 1811. The broadside announces a decree issued in the absence of King Ferdinand VII on December 3, 1810 regarding the court system and treatment of all subjects thereat. At the time of this decree,...
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"Vando" broadside on seal paper, 16.5" x 21", Chihuahua, February 14, 1781. The decree issued by Galvez from Spain in his role as Minister of the Indies, lays out specific guidelines for salaries and food rations for all workers in New Spain including miners, ranchers and servants. Chipping at ma...
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Single sheet, 12" x 16.75", printed on the recto with multiple endorsements and signatures on the verso. Originally issued in Mexico on December 2, 1779, the broadside extends the deadline for the collection and destruction of old coinage. The decree further states that only the new coinage is to...
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One sheet on seal paper, 12" x 16.75", issued in Mexico on December 29, 1796, and endorsed and signed by Bonavía in Durango on February 7, 1797. Talamanca became viceroy of New Spain in July 1794, and as was customary, had issued an edict demonetizing the previous currency in favor of his own. T...
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Signed "Manl Muñoz" adding his paraph. Two pages on laid paper, 8" x 11.5", Bexar, December 31, 1794. At top: "The Govr in charge of the Province of Texas the Honorable Colonel Dn Manuel Muñoz - his age 66 years, his Country Matamorra Archdiocese of Burgos, his services and circum...
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One page, 8" x 11.5", [no place], no date but December 31, 1794. A manuscript report listing the military record of first sergeant Mariano Rodriguez who served a total of 28 years and one day in the cavalry stationed at the "Presidio de San Antonio de Bexar." According to the report, R...
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One page, partially printed, 14.75" x 12.5", "City of Austin," April, 28, 1860, granting "William McGovern...Three Hundred and twenty acres of Land...in Jones County on the W Bank of the Clear Fork of the Brazos River." Blindstamped seals of the State of Texas and General La...
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One page, partially printed on vellum, 14.75" x 12.5", "City of Austin," January 20, 1841, granting to "James Dunn his heirs or assigns Forever Twelve Hundred and Eighty acres of Land...In Milam County, on the waters of Davidson's Creek..." and "...all the right and title...
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Two pages, 8.25" x 10.25", hand written in ink, "Murfreesbourgh", November 9, 1825, granting in "pursuance of an act of the General Assembly, of the State of Tennessee, passed on the 5th day of October 1824...'an act for the encouragement of iron works'...unto Mark Reeves and Sons, ...
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Two and one-half pages, 8.5" x 12", partially printed, in Spanish, Villa de San Felipe de Austin, December 18, 1830. The deed states "Estevan F. Austin, Empresario to establish Three Hundred Families within the ten coastal leagues on the coast of the Mexican interior, between the La Baca River...
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Archibald Wynns Money Receipt Signed "A. Wynns." One page, 8" x 3.25", n. p., October 31, 1846, regarding the transfer of $75 to G. M. Miles. Very good. [and:] Receipt for Land Purchase. One page, 8" x 5.25", Houston, Texas, August 4, n. y. (circa 1845). Receipt f...
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One page with ten coupons, 9.75" x 7.5", January 1, 1841, Austin, in the amount of $100, number 533. This bond was issued to Stock Commissioner Charles DeMorse, whose job was to fund the public debt under President Lamar. Decorated with four steel engraved vignettes including two of cattle, a ste...
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One page with ten coupons, 10.25" x 8", January 1, 1841, Austin, in the amount of $500, number 655. This bond was issued to Stock Commissioner Charles DeMorse, whose job was to fund the public debt under President Lamar. Decorated with two steel engraved vignettes including a farm scene of a man ...
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4.75" x 1.5" with Philadelphia & Baltimore Rail Road postal stamp dated March 3, n. y. (circa 1854). Houston was granted the franking privilege as a member of the United States Senate from February 21, 1846, to March 3, 1859. Houston's distinctive signature is bold. Includes an engraved portrait ...
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One page, partially printed, 9.25" x 11.25", Washington [Texas], August 12, 1845, granting "John H. Seward...duly elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, in and for Precinct No. 3, in the County of Washington...power to exercise and discharge all and singular the duties and trusts, unde...
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One page, partially printed, Houston, September 1, 1838, certifying that "A. Briscoe...was at the time of the signing the same Chief Justice and ex officio Notary Public for the county of Harrisburg." Blind stamped seal of Texas Department of State at bottom left. Folds, else fine.
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One page, 16" x 14", Austin, February [8], 1847, appointing "C. C. Colley First Lieutenant of Rangers in the Company mustered into the Service of the United States on the 20th October 1846." Blind stamped Seal of the State of Texas at left. The document is nearly torn in two down the v...
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Two pages, 7.63" x 9.75" (folded), December 22, 1835, Gonzales, Texas. This document gives authorization to Eli Mitchel as a contractor for the Volunteer Army. Caldwell, Captain of the Gonzales-Seguin Rangers and Sub Contractor in the Volunteer Army, was also a signer of the Texas Declaration of...
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Two pages, 8" (width varies) x 12.25", partially printed, Gonzales, December 23, 1833, confirming that "Green Dewitt of the jurisdiction of Gonzales department of Bexar... in consideration of the sum of one hundred Dolars [sic]...hath granted, bargained and sold... unto...William W...
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Two pages, 8.13" x 7.63", 1844. On the recto, an invoice addressed to "General Sam Houston for the Indian Department" for payment to John Ramsay. A total sum of $45.43 ¾, the invoice details items such as coats, shirts, and handkerchiefs that were supp...
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"Henrietta Lamar."One page, 8.5" x 10.5", Galveston, March 31, 1860, regarding the receipt of $9,000. It reads, in part:

"On the 2nd day of February 1860, Mrs. Henrietta Lamar deposited with Shepherd, Shaw & Co. of Galveston a United States Treasury Warrant...for ten thousan...
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"Thos. D. Beauchamp" as administrator of the estate of Joseph A. Parker. One page, 9.75" x 15.75", partially printed, Houston, May 26, 1841, selling to James West "lots five, six and seven...near the City of Houston" for a total of twenty-six dollars. Weakened folds detaching in places...
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"E. W. Cave" with related documents. One page, 8.5" x 11", on "Houston & Texas Central Railway and Branch Office" letterhead, Houston, January 10, 1884, thanking B. A. Shepherd for "the kind sentiments expressed in your letter" following the death of two colleague...
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"Richard Coke" as governor of Texas. One page, 14.75" x 12.5", Austin, April 7, 1874, granting "Charles E. Dugat his heirs or assigns...Four Million, Two hundred, Fifty-four thousand, Two hundred & Ninety-Nine (4,254,299) Sqrs of Land, situated...In Montgomery County about 8 miles.....
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One and a half pages, 8" x 10" (sight), presidential letterhead, Japala, August 6, 1842, in ink, to his son. Written as President during Santa Ana's campaigns to unite and maintain the territory of New Spain. Reads, in full:
"My esteemed Pedro,
I remained vexed by your graceful letter of...
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Two page (front and back of a single sheet), 5" x 8", El Paso [del Norte], May 25, 1866. Juarez is writing to his daughter, relating news of American support for the cause of Mexican independence from French rule. In part: "I will celebrate that you have returned without incidence from Washing...
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A legal filing of a case between Gabriel Romo Presv. and Francisco Xavier Vines y Vertas, owners of adjoining haciendas, regarding disputes over boundaries and damages incurred. Lightly toned with a few spots of wormhole and heavy dampstaining at top and bottom not affecting the text.

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H. Milroy "Colonel, in the first Regiment of Infantry in my Brigade, in the Army of Texas: having full and ample authority so to do from David G. Burnett [sic] President of the Republic of Texas and his Cabinet Council." Below his first signature, Green writes, "<...

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