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Improvement in Combined Plow-Carrier and Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvement in combined plow-carrier and cotton-chopper by “combining with a plow-carrier, a revolving wheel, placed at right angles with the line of direction of the plows, and provided with a number of horizontal cutters at the ends of its spokes, for the purpose of cutting square across the ridges of earth cast up by the plows, in which cotton seed is sown, and dividing the ridges into isolated hills, each containing one or more cotton-plants.” (Lines 23-29) Illustration is incl… more

Date: May 18, 1869

Creator: Kirtley, Fielding L.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Commissary Report of Johnson County Rangers, January 12, 1861]

Account of items purchased: blankets, comforters, coffee pots, axes, rope, frying pans, tobacco, and other items.

Date: 1861-01-12~

Creator: Johnson County (Tex.)

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Court summons issued to A.D. Kennard, September 8, 1862]

Summons to A.D. Kennard requesting his appearance in Buchanan, Johnson County, as a defendant in a case with Hiram Bayes, plaintiff, on September 8th, 1862.

Date: September 8, 1862

Creator: Hines, James

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Johnson County

Map of Johnson and Hood Counties, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).

Date: April 1863

Item Type: Map

Partner: Texas General Land Office