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Box 1

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Contains 97 Results:

Typewritten biography of the Honorable Charles S. Taylor (42 pages)

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

Correspondence, invoices, tax receipts, field notes, deeds, powers of attorney, and other legal documents, Confederate warrants, notes, and orders for food to be supplied to Confederate soldiers' families, and genealogical material on the Taylor and Ruoff (Ruff, Roff) families of Nacogdoches.

Dates: 1834-1852

Letter expressing sorrow and mourning

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8, Item: 1
Scope and Contents

Personal writing by an unknown author about the loss of a loved one.

Dates: 1834-1852

Nacogdoches Co. land grant certificate from Texas Governor Alexander C. Horton to Charles S. Taylor for one league and labor, 7/23/1846

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, invoices, tax receipts, field notes, deeds, powers of attorney, and other legal documents, Confederate warrants, notes, and orders for food to be supplied to Confederate soldiers' families, and genealogical material on the Taylor and Ruoff (Ruff, Roff) families of Nacogdoches.

Dates: 7/23/1846

Official land survey signed by Thomas S. Brooks, Deputy Surveyor, and A. A. Nelson, County Surveyor of Nacogdoches Co.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, invoices, tax receipts, field notes, deeds, powers of attorney, and other legal documents, Confederate warrants, notes, and orders for food to be supplied to Confederate soldiers' families, and genealogical material on the Taylor and Ruoff (Ruff, Roff) families of Nacogdoches.

Dates: 1834-1852

Certificate of redemption from the estate of Charles S. Taylor on a tax receipt for 1476 acres of land in Upshur Co., 1867

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, invoices, tax receipts, field notes, deeds, powers of attorney, and other legal documents, Confederate warrants, notes, and orders for food to be supplied to Confederate soldiers' families, and genealogical material on the Taylor and Ruoff (Ruff, Roff) families of Nacogdoches.

Dates: 1867

Letter (partial)

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, invoices, tax receipts, field notes, deeds, powers of attorney, and other legal documents, Confederate warrants, notes, and orders for food to be supplied to Confederate soldiers' families, and genealogical material on the Taylor and Ruoff (Ruff, Roff) families of Nacogdoches.

Dates: 1834-1852

List of Nacogdoches Co. assets, including cotton cords, wool, percussion caps, morphine, lead, shot, opium, and powder

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, invoices, tax receipts, field notes, deeds, powers of attorney, and other legal documents, Confederate warrants, notes, and orders for food to be supplied to Confederate soldiers' families, and genealogical material on the Taylor and Ruoff (Ruff, Roff) families of Nacogdoches.

Dates: 1834-1852

Receipt for payment

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, invoices, tax receipts, field notes, deeds, powers of attorney, and other legal documents, Confederate warrants, notes, and orders for food to be supplied to Confederate soldiers' families, and genealogical material on the Taylor and Ruoff (Ruff, Roff) families of Nacogdoches.

Dates: 1834-1852

Inventory of land and lots on which James H. Starr pays direct taxes

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, invoices, tax receipts, field notes, deeds, powers of attorney, and other legal documents, Confederate warrants, notes, and orders for food to be supplied to Confederate soldiers' families, and genealogical material on the Taylor and Ruoff (Ruff, Roff) families of Nacogdoches.

Dates: 1834-1852

Charles Taylor estate papers

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 6
Scope and Contents

Charles Taylor deed of estate to Mary Taylor.

Dates: 1834-1852

"A history of the action of the political and civil authorities and citizens relating to the land office at Nacogdoches under the jurisdiction of Charles S. Taylor," by L. S. Taylor (original, published copy, 27 pages)

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, invoices, tax receipts, field notes, deeds, powers of attorney, and other legal documents, Confederate warrants, notes, and orders for food to be supplied to Confederate soldiers' families, and genealogical material on the Taylor and Ruoff (Ruff, Roff) families of Nacogdoches.

Dates: 1834-1852

Lucille Fain, "A tale of 2 Nacogdoches brothers and their 'dubious land promotion'," 'Daily Sentinel' (photocopy) [re: Allen brothers]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, invoices, tax receipts, field notes, deeds, powers of attorney, and other legal documents, Confederate warrants, notes, and orders for food to be supplied to Confederate soldiers' families, and genealogical material on the Taylor and Ruoff (Ruff, Roff) families of Nacogdoches.

Dates: 1834-1852

Mrs. Guy Blount, "When Was 'Secession Flag' Raised in Nacogdoches??", 'The Pine Log' (photocopy) [re: Raguet family], 5/22/1959

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, invoices, tax receipts, field notes, deeds, powers of attorney, and other legal documents, Confederate warrants, notes, and orders for food to be supplied to Confederate soldiers' families, and genealogical material on the Taylor and Ruoff (Ruff, Roff) families of Nacogdoches.

Dates: 5/22/1959

Carolyn Ericson, "Uncle of local man helped found Society," 'Daily Sentinel' (photocopy) [re: Colonel Raguet and the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society], 3/7/1976

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, invoices, tax receipts, field notes, deeds, powers of attorney, and other legal documents, Confederate warrants, notes, and orders for food to be supplied to Confederate soldiers' families, and genealogical material on the Taylor and Ruoff (Ruff, Roff) families of Nacogdoches.

Dates: 3/7/1976

"A Very Grave Offence; Young Man Caught In The Act of Poisoning Syrup," 'Weekly Sentinel' (photocopy) [re: Runnels], 7/22/1903

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, Item: 4
Scope and Contents

The article recounts the allegations against Runnels and being charged for poisoning a batch of syrup at Stripling Haselwood and Co.'s with strychnine.

Dates: 7/22/1903

Compliation of "Records of Deeds" that were burnt, destroyed, or manipulated in the organized counties of Texas and date of qualification of first recorder, compiled by James F. Starr (photocopy)

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, invoices, tax receipts, field notes, deeds, powers of attorney, and other legal documents, Confederate warrants, notes, and orders for food to be supplied to Confederate soldiers' families, and genealogical material on the Taylor and Ruoff (Ruff, Roff) families of Nacogdoches.

Dates: 1834-1852

Record of deeds - Photocopy of a handmade table that shows the transference of land ownership

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, invoices, tax receipts, field notes, deeds, powers of attorney, and other legal documents, Confederate warrants, notes, and orders for food to be supplied to Confederate soldiers' families, and genealogical material on the Taylor and Ruoff (Ruff, Roff) families of Nacogdoches.

Dates: 1834-1852