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Box 10

 Container

Contains 105 Results:

Estate of Eldred Coleson, James McKnight administrator (8 items), 1864-1871

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 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: 1864-1871
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Estate of C. R. McKnight and estate of John Pate (3 items), undated, 1874

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 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: undated, 1874
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Travis Co. District Court criminal case file, State of Texas vs Milton Mast, et al. (2 items), 1887

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Mast was the Nacogdoches Co. tax collector and the state received $7,122.76 less than what he collected. James McKnight and five others, posted Mast's $8,000 bond.

Dates: 1887
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Lawsuits over land and timber rights involving W. B. McKnight and Blake families (8 items), 1901-1906

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 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: 1901-1906
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Miscellaneous legal papers of W. B. McKnight (4 items), 1885-1903, undated

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 5
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: 1885-1903, undated
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Cove Spring Memorial Association (5 items), 1884-1942

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Letter re: church timber, receipt, tax exemption forms, short historical statement and timber, receipt.

Dates: 1884-1942
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Methodist Episcopal Church, South (3 items), 1854-1860

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 7
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: 1854-1860
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Teaching contracts of Betty McKnight and W. B. McKnight (4 items), 1874-1881

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 8
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: 1874-1881
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Freemasonry (2 items), 1869-1915

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 9
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: 1869-1915
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Miscellaneous (6 items), 1898, 1914

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 10
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: 1898, 1914
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Miscellaneous correspondence (4 items)

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 11
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: 1826-1942; Event: Donated in 1963
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Receipts, accounts, and bills (7 items), 1866-1895

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 12
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: 1866-1895
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Land deeds (5 items), 1849-1857

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Deeds include the names Stephen Nichols, John Minchew and William Riley Seals.

Dates: 1849-1857
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Land deeds (original, transcription, 5 items), 1859-1902

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Deeds innclude the names of Eldred Coleson and Procella/de la Cerda family members. There are notes about Shaker lands in Ohio on the back of one deed.

Dates: 1859-1902
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Field notes, plats, and chain of title for various tracts (print, typescript, 8 items), 1842-1926, undated

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Deeds include the names of John Poe, Blount family, Oscar B. Slay, and E. Fite.

Dates: 1842-1926, undated
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Miscellaneous land papers (6 items), 1847-1920

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

The folder includes a certificate receipt, land lease, oil lease, and timber rights.

Dates: 1847-1920
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

List of land owners and acreage (13 pages), notes about land (3 items)

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 17
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: 1826-1942; Event: Donated in 1963
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Petition from Anna M. C. Keller Jones at Pittsburgh, PA to the mayor of Nacogdoches re: her deceased father's lost Mexican land titles; and documents from the Mexican Vice-Consul in Pittsburgh (4 items), 2/1850

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 18
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: 2/1850
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Miscellaneous legal papers (5 items), 1868-1885

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

The folder includes a judgment in the case of Sarah Thompson vs E. S. Huston, legal documents for the partition of Rusk and Lacey family lands; and other notes.

Dates: 1868-1885
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

Discharge of H. R. Hyde from Confederate service with Captain W. Clark's Company G of the 8th Regiment, Texas Infantry (1 item), 3/26/1863

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 20
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: 3/26/1863
Found in: East Texas Research Center / Bennett Blake Papers / Box 10

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