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Box 1

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

'Norton's Intelligencer' (with a letter from Col. John Forbes relating early Texas newspaper history) (typescript, 6 pages)

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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. See Separated Materials for two volumes of transcripts of the Forbes vs. Labadie trial that include detailed testimony on the Battle of San...
Dates: circa 1836-1875

[Houston] 'Telegraph and Texas Register' (handwritten transcript, 2 pages) (anecdote about David Crockett), 4/28/1838

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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. See Separated Materials for two volumes of transcripts of the Forbes vs. Labadie trial that include detailed testimony on the Battle of San...
Dates: 4/28/1838

Handwritten sketch of John Forbes' life, by Peyton F. Edwards (?) (3 pages)

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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. See Separated Materials for two volumes of transcripts of the Forbes vs. Labadie trial that include detailed testimony on the Battle of San...
Dates: 1836-1963