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Bill of sale for slave

Description: Bill from Nancy Lea to Antoinette L. Bledsoe for Negro named Frank; Lea was Sam Houston's mother-in-law
Date: 1844
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Commission for Justice of the Peace]

Description: 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.
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Copy of land grant to George H. Bringhurst]

Description: 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
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

"Correspondence with Texas, on the Subject of Annexation"

Description: 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
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Court Order

Description: 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
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Court Record

Description: Thomas Johnson v. Harrison G. Wood; a list of subscriptions reserved by G.H. Harrison in selling the office of the Texian and Brazos Farmer
Date: 1842
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Enlistees of F Company, 1st Regiment of Infantry, Texas Army]

Description: 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.
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Executor's Sale

Description: Notice of estate sale of Thomas Gay, deceased, for two tracts of land in Montgomery County, Texas on the west bank of the Trinity River. The notice was written in Washington County.
Date: May 31, 1842
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

General Jackson's Fine

Description: First page of an editorial criticizing the conduct of Whig Party in regard to public printing.
Date: January 31, 1843
Creator: Pearce, Mr.
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Memorandum of Agreement

Description: Memorandum of agreement between Secretary of State, Anson Jones, and Sam Whiting, Austin; concerns contract for printing of the laws of the Republic of Texas
Date: 1841
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

A New Guide to Texas

Description: The cover and title page of the emigrant's Guide to Texas.
Date: 1845
Creator: Hunt, Richard S. & Randel, Jesse F.
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
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