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Box 9

 Container

Contains 51 Results:

Nacogdoches Co. oil, gas and mineral lease from W. B. McKnight to R. H. Lee and J. H. Robinson for 91.68 acres, 4/22/1935

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 20, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of letters, financial papers, legal documents, and land deeds, mostly of Bennett Blake, his immediate family, and related families. A significant portion of the papers relate to William Bonaparte McKnight, who married Mary Louisa Addie Blake. McKnight's papers include oil leases and negotiations for timber rights. Several original land grants are included in the collection, two signed by Republic of Texas President Anson Jones.

Dates: 4/22/1935
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 9 / Oil, gas and mineral leases of W. B. McKnight, et al. (4 items)

Nacogdoches Co. oil, gas and mineral lease from W. B. McKnight to R. H. Lee and J. H. Robinson for 365 acres, 4/22/1935

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 20, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of letters, financial papers, legal documents, and land deeds, mostly of Bennett Blake, his immediate family, and related families. A significant portion of the papers relate to William Bonaparte McKnight, who married Mary Louisa Addie Blake. McKnight's papers include oil leases and negotiations for timber rights. Several original land grants are included in the collection, two signed by Republic of Texas President Anson Jones.

Dates: 4/22/1935
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 9 / Oil, gas and mineral leases of W. B. McKnight, et al. (4 items)

Orange Co. oil, gas and mineral lease from W. B. McKnight and M. A. L. McKnight to Richard Yett for 640 acres, 10/11/1937

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 20, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of letters, financial papers, legal documents, and land deeds, mostly of Bennett Blake, his immediate family, and related families. A significant portion of the papers relate to William Bonaparte McKnight, who married Mary Louisa Addie Blake. McKnight's papers include oil leases and negotiations for timber rights. Several original land grants are included in the collection, two signed by Republic of Texas President Anson Jones.

Dates: 10/11/1937
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 9 / Oil, gas and mineral leases of W. B. McKnight, et al. (4 items)

Appointment of James McKnight as a Nacogdoches Co. road overseer by A. H. Hamiel, Justice of the Peace, Precinct 3, , 7/24/1874

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 22, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of letters, financial papers, legal documents, and land deeds, mostly of Bennett Blake, his immediate family, and related families. A significant portion of the papers relate to William Bonaparte McKnight, who married Mary Louisa Addie Blake. McKnight's papers include oil leases and negotiations for timber rights. Several original land grants are included in the collection, two signed by Republic of Texas President Anson Jones.

Dates: 7/24/1874
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 9 / Appointment of James McKnight as overseer for road work; contracts for labor (5 items)

Employment contract between James McKnight and Isaac Robinson and Millie Robinson for McKnight to hire their son Prince for six months, 6/4/1880

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 22, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of letters, financial papers, legal documents, and land deeds, mostly of Bennett Blake, his immediate family, and related families. A significant portion of the papers relate to William Bonaparte McKnight, who married Mary Louisa Addie Blake. McKnight's papers include oil leases and negotiations for timber rights. Several original land grants are included in the collection, two signed by Republic of Texas President Anson Jones.

Dates: 6/4/1880
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 9 / Appointment of James McKnight as overseer for road work; contracts for labor (5 items)

Employment contract between James McKnight and Jimmie Young to hire Young, 11/14/1885

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 22, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

Young worked for 10 bushels of corn, 100 pounds of meat and $20.

Dates: 11/14/1885
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 9 / Appointment of James McKnight as overseer for road work; contracts for labor (5 items)

Employment contract between James McKnight and Tobe Rhodes to hire Rhodes, 11/14/1885

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 22, Item: 4
Scope and Contents

Rhodes worked for 10 bushels of corn, 100 pounds of meat and $20.

Dates: 11/14/1885
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 9 / Appointment of James McKnight as overseer for road work; contracts for labor (5 items)

Employment contract between James McKnight and Phil Crawford to hire Crawford for six months, 1/1/1885

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 22, Item: 5
Scope and Contents

Crawford worked for a pony and $2.

Dates: 1/1/1885
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 9 / Appointment of James McKnight as overseer for road work; contracts for labor (5 items)

Contract between James W. Power, John L. Lilly and William B. McKnight and Henry L. Austin and William H. Rulfs for Austin and Rulfs to build four one-story brick buildings on West Main St. in the town of Nacogdoches (typescript, 2 pages), 5/4/1899

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 24, Item: 1
Scope and Contents

Deidrich Rulfs is listed as the architect.

Dates: 5/4/1899
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 9 / Contracts of W. B. McKnight, et al. for buildings and bridges (3 items)

Contract between W. B. McKnight, Nacogdoches County Commissioner of Precinct 1, and B. C. Castleberry for Castleberry to build a bridge over the Fish Pond branch on Douglass Road (typescript), 5/4/1910

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 24, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of letters, financial papers, legal documents, and land deeds, mostly of Bennett Blake, his immediate family, and related families. A significant portion of the papers relate to William Bonaparte McKnight, who married Mary Louisa Addie Blake. McKnight's papers include oil leases and negotiations for timber rights. Several original land grants are included in the collection, two signed by Republic of Texas President Anson Jones.

Dates: 5/4/1910
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 9 / Contracts of W. B. McKnight, et al. for buildings and bridges (3 items)

Agreement between Mary B. Hayter and W. B. McKnight to share a brick wall on the second story of their adjacent homes on West Main Street in the town of Nacogdoches (typescript), 3/12/1920

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 24, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of letters, financial papers, legal documents, and land deeds, mostly of Bennett Blake, his immediate family, and related families. A significant portion of the papers relate to William Bonaparte McKnight, who married Mary Louisa Addie Blake. McKnight's papers include oil leases and negotiations for timber rights. Several original land grants are included in the collection, two signed by Republic of Texas President Anson Jones.

Dates: 3/12/1920
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 9 / Contracts of W. B. McKnight, et al. for buildings and bridges (3 items)

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