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[Bill of sale for purchase Harriet, an enslaved woman]

A bill of sale for enslaver William McMaster’s purchase of a Harriet, an enslaved woman, from enslaver William B. Smith. E.M. Pease, also an enslaver, was a witness to the transaction.

Date: January 2, 1844

[Invitation to "Will Rogers" Party at Woodlawn for Governor-elect Dan Moody]

An invitation to a "Will Rogers" Party at Woodlawn for Governor-elect Dan Moody.

Date: November 2, 1926

Creator: Graham, Richard Niles & Graham, Anita

[Invitation to inauguration of Clark Mills's equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson]

An invitation that Governor E.M. Pease received to the inauguration of Clark Mills's equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson.

Date: January 19, 1856

Creator: Jackson Monument Association

[Invitation to Lucadia Pease from President John Tyler and first lady Julia Tyler]

An invitation to Lucadia Pease from President John Tyler and first lady Julia Tyler.

Date: unknown

Creator: & Tyler, Julia

[Agreement for sale of Hercules, an enslaved boy]

An agreement for the sale of Hercules, an enslaved boy who was "eleven or twelve years old." Hercules was sold by enslaver Ephraim M. Guthrie to enslaver Thomas Graham. The agreement names Hercules a "slave for life."

Date: September 29, 1847

[Funeral receipt]

A receipt for printing and circulating funeral tickets (possibly for the funeral of Anne Marshall Pease, daughter of E.M. & Lucadia Pease).

Date: August 1862

[Funeral receipt]

A receipt for the "funeral of [E.M. Pease’s] child," Anne Marshall Pease.

Date: September 19, 1862

[Receipt for transportation of slaves]

A receipt for "hauling [E.M. Pease's] negros and goods."

Date: 1854-uu-16

Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall & Conan, J. B.

[Tax receipts for E.M. Pease]

Confederate-tax and war-tax receipts.

Date: {1862-06-03,1865-02-10,1865-02-23}

[Receipt for transportation of slaves]

A receipt for the transportation of "the negro girl Emily and child belonging to Hon. E.M. Pease."

Date: September 15, 1853

[Announcement of E.M. Pease’s candidacy for governor]

A circular in which E.M. Pease announces his candidacy for governor.

Date: May 26, 1851

Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall

[Tax receipt with list of slaves]

A tax receipt for Thomas Graham that lists slaves.

Date: 1860

[Poll-tax receipts and certificate of exemption from poll tax for Richard Niles Graham]

Three poll-tax receipts and a certificate of exemption from a poll tax for Richard Niles Graham.

Date: {1914-12-17,1917-01-12,1939-01-24,1954-10-21}

[Agreement for E.M. Pease’s purchase of Maria, an enslaved woman, from Clinton Terry]

An agreement for E.M. Pease’s purchase of a Maria, an enslaved woman, from enslaver Clinton Terry.

Date: December 10, 1853

[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

[Agreement for sale of Boston, an enslaved man, in Connecticut]

An agreement for the sale of an enslaved man named Boston in Connecticut between enslaver John Griswold and the estate of deceased enslaver Josiah Filly, executed by David Barber.

Date: December 16, 1772

[Biographical essay on Elisabet Ney]

A short biographical essay on Elisabet Ney—on the cover is a black-&-white reproduction of a painting of Ney by Fredrich Kaulbach.

Date: unknown

Creator: Fredrich Kaulbach

[Petition in case about ownership of slaves]

Petition in a case ("Calvitt v. Harris") about ownership of slaves including Grace (age 27), her son, George (12), and another child of hers who is not named.

Date: January 30, 1849

[Note secured by deed of trust on slaves]

A note secured “by deed of trust on negroes.”

Date: September 18, 1849

Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall

[Essay “Pease School” by Timothy Alvin Brown]

“Pease School,” an essay by Timothy Alvin Brown, who was the principal of the Austin Independent School District's oldest school, Pease Elementary, from 1892-1933.

Date: unknown

Creator: Brown, Timothy Alvin

[Agreement for E.M. Pease’s purchase of Mary Ann, an enslaved woman, from J.M. Prewitt]

An agreement for E.M. Pease’s purchase of Mary Ann, an enslaved woman, from enslaver J.M. Prewitt.

Date: May 5, 1856

[Correspondence to Carrie Crusemann from Charles S. Potts]

A letter to Carrie Crusemann, one of E.M. and Lucadia Pease's grandchildren, from Charles S. Potts, then dean of the Southern Methodist University school of law, requesting information on the Pease family—at the time, Potts was preparing an entry on E.M. Pease for the "Dictionary of American Biography."

Date: March 31, 1931

Creator: Potts, Charles S.

[Bill of sale for purchase of enslaved person by enslaver E.M. Pease]

A bill of sale for the purchase of an enslaved person by enslaver E.M. Pease.

Date: August 10, 1847

[Receipts regarding Freedmen’s Hospital in Brenham, TX]

Two receipts from a druggist regarding the Freedmen’s Hospital in Brenham, Texas.

Date: 1867-10-30/1867-11-15

Creator: Chadwick, Eddins & Company

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[Bill of sale for purchase Harriet, an enslaved woman]

[Invitation to "Will Rogers" Party at Woodlawn for Governor-elect Dan Moody]

[Invitation to inauguration of Clark Mills's equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson]

[Invitation to Lucadia Pease from President John Tyler and first lady Julia Tyler]

[Agreement for sale of Hercules, an enslaved boy]

[Funeral receipt]

[Funeral receipt]

[Receipt for transportation of slaves]

[Tax receipts for E.M. Pease]

[Receipt for transportation of slaves]

[Announcement of E.M. Pease’s candidacy for governor]

[Tax receipt with list of slaves]

[Poll-tax receipts and certificate of exemption from poll tax for Richard Niles Graham]

[Agreement for E.M. Pease’s purchase of Maria, an enslaved woman, from Clinton Terry]

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

[Agreement for sale of Boston, an enslaved man, in Connecticut]

[Biographical essay on Elisabet Ney]

[Petition in case about ownership of slaves]

[Note secured by deed of trust on slaves]

[Essay “Pease School” by Timothy Alvin Brown]

[Agreement for E.M. Pease’s purchase of Mary Ann, an enslaved woman, from J.M. Prewitt]

[Correspondence to Carrie Crusemann from Charles S. Potts]

[Bill of sale for purchase of enslaved person by enslaver E.M. Pease]

[Receipts regarding Freedmen’s Hospital in Brenham, TX]