Box 3
Container
Contains 62 Results:
Damaged documents (about 20 items), circa 1857-1895
File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Documents are in very poor condition: paper pulverized by water soaking; many torn and "chewed"; ink faded to illegibility on many. The contents seem to be land: claims, suits, taxes, mortgages.
Dates:
circa 1857-1895
Field notes and comments by E. C. Palmer, surveyor on the Mora Grant, Nacogdoches County, with comments about valuable "Tar Spring," fertile soil and fine branch of water, 1/12/1855
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 1, Item: 1
Dates:
1/12/1855
Agreement between the heirs of I. C. Skillern and L. T. Barret, et al. for exclusive mining privileges, 10/9/1865
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 1, Item: 2
Dates:
10/9/1865
Canceled contract with J. B. Johnson, et al. to form a Petroleum Oil and Mining Co., circa 1865
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 1, Item: 3
Dates:
circa 1865
Agreement of Daniel H. Vail and wife with C. A. Hamilton et al., for testing Vail's property near "Oil Springs" (Tar Spring (?) of E. C. Palmer's survey, 1855?), 10/10/1865
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 1, Item: 4
Dates:
10/10/1865
Letter introducing L. T. Barret of Petroleum Oil Project, 10/14/1865
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 1, Item: 5
Dates:
10/14/1865
Power-of-attorney from B. P. Hollingsworth to J. B. Johnson, engineer, re: oil operations, 10/15/1865
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 1, Item: 6
Dates:
10/15/1865
Letter from B. P. Hollingsworth at Henderson to J. B. Johnson at Nacogdoches re: miners rights and land sales, 10/17/1865
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 1, Item: 7
Dates:
10/17/1865
Letter from B. P. Hollingsworth at Henderson to J. B. Johnson at Nacogdoches re: the possibility of trip north to visit oil fields, welfare of "our" company, etc. , 10/30/1865
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 1, Item: 8
Dates:
10/30/1865
Power-of-attorney from James B. Earle in McLennan Co. to Charles A. Hamilton, 12/11/1865
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 1, Item: 9
Dates:
12/11/1865
Articles of agreement forming the Melrose Petroleum and Oil Company, 12/21/1865
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 1, Item: 10
Dates:
12/21/1865
Receipt from Melrose Petroleum Oil Co., L. T. Barret to Earle and Hamilton for $1090, 12/21/1865
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 1, Item: 11
Dates:
12/21/1865
Financial report by L. T. Barret, President Melrose Petroleum Oil Company, 12/21/1865-7/31/1866
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 1, Item: 12
Dates:
12/21/1865-7/31/1866
Letter from R. P. Loyd and Co. at New Orleans to L. T. Barret re: the possibility of buying lands from Melrose Petroleum Oil Co., 12/29/1865
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 1, Item: 13
Dates:
12/29/1865
Letter from John Flint in McLennan Co. to L. T. Barret inquiring about the Melrose Oil Company, 5/14/1866
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 2, Item: 1
Dates:
5/14/1866
