Skip to main content

Box 3

 Container

Contains 62 Results:

Agreement re: drilling of test well (no names), circa 1900-1909

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 3, Item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: circa 1900-1909
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3 / Oil, Melrose Petroleum Oil Company

Newspaper clipping: "Oil Springs 33 Years Ago", by L. W., Melrose, printed in the 'Daily Sentinel', Nacogdoches, 3/24/1914

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 3, Item: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 3/24/1914
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3 / Oil, Melrose Petroleum Oil Company

"Memorial to be erected on SFA College Campus," 'Daily Sentinel', 5/6/1966

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 5/6/1966
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3 / Genealogical, biographical and historical interest

Feature story of Barret and first well, 'Daily Sentinel', 5/21/1966

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 5/21/1966
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3 / Genealogical, biographical and historical interest

Pamphlet, "The Story of Lyne Taliaferro (Tol) Barret, Who Drilled Texas' First Oil Well," by Frank X. Tolbert, Dallas (Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association), 1966

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 1966
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3 / Genealogical, biographical and historical interest

Notations on the birth, marriage and death dates of L. T. and Angelina M. Barret (two small sheets)

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 1876-1966
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3 / Genealogical, biographical and historical interest

Heirs of Angelina Barret: Pencil and typed copies - 5 sheets, with oil map of Texas (news clipping attached)

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4, Item: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 1876-1966
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3 / Genealogical, biographical and historical interest

Galveston Cotton Exchange market report, 2/25/1876

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4, Item: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 2/25/1876
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3 / Genealogical, biographical and historical interest

Return of an Election, Precinct No. 3, Nacogdoches County, 11/5/1878

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4, Item: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 11/5/1878
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3 / Genealogical, biographical and historical interest

Documents naming as trustees of Melrose School Community J. H. Mathews, L. T. Barret (2 total) and John Willson (4 total) , 1880-1881

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4, Item: 8-13
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 1880-1881
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3 / Genealogical, biographical and historical interest

Announcement of Sabine and East Texas Railway Co., Beaumont, of new depot at Rockland, Tyler County, 7/25/1882

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4, Item: 14
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 7/25/1882
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3 / Genealogical, biographical and historical interest

Advertisement of land for sale, J. M. Mora Survey, in Nacogdoches Co.

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4, Item: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 1876-1966
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3 / Genealogical, biographical and historical interest

Box 3

 Box — Box: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 1836-1966; Event: Donated in 1966
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers

Oil, Melrose Petroleum Oil Company, 1855-1866

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

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 1855-1866
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3

Oil, Melrose Petroleum Oil Company, 1866-1868

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 1866-1868
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3

Oil, Melrose Petroleum Oil Company, 1870-1914

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

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 1870-1914
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3

Genealogical, biographical and historical interest, 1876-1966

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 1876-1966
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3

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
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3

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
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 1/12/1855
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3 / Oil, Melrose Petroleum Oil Company

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
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 10/9/1865
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers / Box 3 / Oil, Melrose Petroleum Oil Company

East Texas Research Center
Box 13055, SFA Station
Nacogdoches, TX 75962
Phone: (936) 468-4100
Contact Us | Find on Map
Website: https://library.sfasu.edu/etrc

Staff Interface | v3.5.0