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Box 1

 Container

Contains 6 Results:

Letter from J. E. Watkins at Henderson to George L. Crocket at Nacogdoches (typescript; original in the Crocket Collection) , 10/17/1932

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Diary and autobiography of Richard O. Watkins, accounts of the Runaway Scrape and the Cherokee War, Republic of Texas legal documents, letters and family history. Chiefly photocopies and typescript.

Dates: 10/17/1932

"Penciled Manuscript Written 25 Years Ago by Jesse J. Watkins Reveals Some Interesting Early History of Texas," by Henry C. Fuller (newspaper clipping from Houston Chronicle and typescript) , 1/27/1924

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Diary and autobiography of Richard O. Watkins, accounts of the Runaway Scrape and the Cherokee War, Republic of Texas legal documents, letters and family history. Chiefly photocopies and typescript.

Dates: 1/27/1924

History on the presentation of Chief Bowle's sword, by Jesse J. Watkins (handwritten original and typescript) , 10/1893

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Diary and autobiography of Richard O. Watkins, accounts of the Runaway Scrape and the Cherokee War, Republic of Texas legal documents, letters and family history. Chiefly photocopies and typescript.

Dates: 10/1893

Diary (typescript, made from original loaned by Judge Royal Watkins, Dallas, 1927) , c.1855-1860

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Diary and autobiography of Richard O. Watkins, accounts of the Runaway Scrape and the Cherokee War, Republic of Texas legal documents, letters and family history. Chiefly photocopies and typescript.

Dates: c.1855-1860

"Proceed to the Praire, the Jesse Watkins story," compiled events in the life of Watkins against the backdrop of events in Texas, chiefly in 1837. Written by Lynn McCormick (1930-1983), c.1973

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Diary and autobiography of Richard O. Watkins, accounts of the Runaway Scrape and the Cherokee War, Republic of Texas legal documents, letters and family history. Chiefly photocopies and typescript.

Dates: c.1973

Acknowledgment for rifles delivered by Jesse Watkins, signed by Albert Emanuel

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Diary and autobiography of Richard O. Watkins, accounts of the Runaway Scrape and the Cherokee War, Republic of Texas legal documents, letters and family history. Chiefly photocopies and typescript.

Dates: 1836-1837