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Crawford-Yancy-Scrogins Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A-0155
Scope and Contents
The collection contains original documents, including legal and financial records, land papers, and personal correspondence concerning the Crawford, Yancy and Scroggins families, 1823-1902.
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Forestry and Agriculture, Arthur Temple College of
Collection
Identifier: UA-034
Scope and Contents
A number of files in this collection deal with a lawsuit between Stephen F. Austin State University, originating in the College of Forestry, and Seymour I. Somberg, a former professor. The files are from the Dean of Forestry at the time of the litigation, Laurence C. Walker. There are also some files that deal with Walker and his position in the Forestry School after the lawsuit was filed.
This collection has materials that cover some early years of the development of the Forestry School at...
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
James Joseph Greve Papers
Collection
Identifier: B-0112
Scope and Contents
Papers of a former Nacogdoches County, Texas, attorney regarding warranty deeds, execution of wills, deeds of sale, deeds of trust, oil and gas leases, divorces, quit claim deeds, promissory notes, fire insurance policy, field notes and vendors lien notes
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
John Forbes Papers
Collection
Identifier: A-0063
Scope and Contents
The collection contains legal papers, correspondence, business papers, Republic of Texas Army Commissary Records, and biographical and genealogical material on Forbes. There is a transcript of the David G. Burnet treason trial and papers relating to Sam Houston, David Crockett, and Andrew Jackson.
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Parmalee and Roeder General Store Journal
Collection
Identifier: B-0098
Scope and Contents
The ledger has accounts of customers at the store and includes prices of cigars, crackers, calico, wine and other items. It is bound with Richard Parmalee's District Clerk's fee book (1839-1850).
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Samuel Houston Papers
Collection
Identifier: A-0068
Scope and Contents
These papers relate to the activities of Sam Houston mainly while he was governor of Tennessee, President of the Republic of Texas, and U. S. Senator from Texas. Included among the legal documents are photocopies from a lengthy land dispute with James H. Starr. The correspondence includes copies of seven letters to Eber Worthington Cave, mostly written in the last year of Houston's life, as well as one to Adolphus Sterne in 1842. All were omitted from the publication of 'The Writings of Sam...
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Stephen W. Blount and Benjamin F. Price Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0329
Content Description
Letters, photographs, land documents, and other legal and personal documents
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Watkins Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A-0051
Abstract
Legal documents of Jesse Watkins, Justice of the Peace of Nacogdoches (1837-1838); diary and autobiography of Richard Overton Watkins, Presbyterian minister and Texas Ranger of Nacogdoches; reminiscences of Jesse J. Watkins about the Runaway Scrape, the Cherokee Indian War and other early Texas events; and genealogical material of the Watkins family.
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Watts Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A-0126
Abstract
Correspondence, land documents, legal and financial papers of this San Augustine County family. Family members also lived in Virginia, Ohio, Mississippi and items in the collection relate to those places. Includes correspondence with James Pinckney Henderson, the first Governor of the State of Texas.
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
East Texas Research Center
Box 13055, SFA Station
Nacogdoches, TX 75962
Phone: (936) 468-4100
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