Box 10
Contains 105 Results:
Estate of Eldred Coleson, James McKnight administrator (8 items), 1864-1871
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.
Estate of C. R. McKnight and estate of John Pate (3 items), undated, 1874
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.
Travis Co. District Court criminal case file, State of Texas vs Milton Mast, et al. (2 items), 1887
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.
Lawsuits over land and timber rights involving W. B. McKnight and Blake families (8 items), 1901-1906
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.
Miscellaneous legal papers of W. B. McKnight (4 items), 1885-1903, undated
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.
Cove Spring Memorial Association (5 items), 1884-1942
Letter re: church timber, receipt, tax exemption forms, short historical statement and timber, receipt.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South (3 items), 1854-1860
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.
Teaching contracts of Betty McKnight and W. B. McKnight (4 items), 1874-1881
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.
Freemasonry (2 items), 1869-1915
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.
Miscellaneous (6 items), 1898, 1914
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.
Miscellaneous correspondence (4 items)
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.
Receipts, accounts, and bills (7 items), 1866-1895
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.
Land deeds (5 items), 1849-1857
Deeds include the names Stephen Nichols, John Minchew and William Riley Seals.
Land deeds (original, transcription, 5 items), 1859-1902
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.
Field notes, plats, and chain of title for various tracts (print, typescript, 8 items), 1842-1926, undated
Deeds include the names of John Poe, Blount family, Oscar B. Slay, and E. Fite.
Miscellaneous land papers (6 items), 1847-1920
The folder includes a certificate receipt, land lease, oil lease, and timber rights.
List of land owners and acreage (13 pages), notes about land (3 items)
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.
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
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.
Miscellaneous legal papers (5 items), 1868-1885
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.
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
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.