Box 3
Contains 62 Results:
Letter from John T. Flint, Charles A. Hamilton and J. B. Earle at Waco to Lyne T. Barret, President of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Co., countermanding previous instructions to sell their interest in M. P. O. Co., 6/14/1866
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).
Letter from John T. Flint to L. T. Barret re: contract on boring wells at Melrose, 6/23/1866
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).
Letter from B. P. Hollingsworth to L. T. Barret re: oil company , 7/7/1866
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).
Account receipt from E. H. Hobbs to L. T. Barret, President of M. P. O. Co., 8/1/1866
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).
Account receipt from Moorman and Farmer to L. T. Barret, President of M. P. O. Co., 7/1866
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).
Receipt from L. T. Barret, President of M. P. O. Co., to Charles S. Beach for labor in boring for petroleum, 8/7/1866
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).
Account receipt from George W. Williams to L. T. Barret, President of M. P. O. Co., 8/1866
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).
Letter from John T. Flint to L. T. Barret re: oil business, 8/14/1866
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).
Oil, Melrose Petroleum Oil Company, 1855-1866
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).
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
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).
Agreement between the heirs of I. C. Skillern and L. T. Barret, et al. for exclusive mining privileges, 10/9/1865
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).
Canceled contract with J. B. Johnson, et al. to form a Petroleum Oil and Mining Co., circa 1865
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).
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
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).
Letter introducing L. T. Barret of Petroleum Oil Project, 10/14/1865
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).
Power-of-attorney from B. P. Hollingsworth to J. B. Johnson, engineer, re: oil operations, 10/15/1865
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).
Letter from B. P. Hollingsworth at Henderson to J. B. Johnson at Nacogdoches re: miners rights and land sales, 10/17/1865
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).
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
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).
Power-of-attorney from James B. Earle in McLennan Co. to Charles A. Hamilton, 12/11/1865
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).
Articles of agreement forming the Melrose Petroleum and Oil Company, 12/21/1865
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).
Receipt from Melrose Petroleum Oil Co., L. T. Barret to Earle and Hamilton for $1090, 12/21/1865
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).