Box 1
Container
Contains 8 Results:
Nacogdoches Co. deed for 640 acres (part of the Thomas Stanford league) from Daniel Lacy and David Rusk to Bennett Blake, 2/1/1841
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 44, Item: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk.
This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include:
• Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates:
2/1/1841
Letter from John Simmons, administrator of the estate of Thomas Stanford, at Cypress Creek in Spring Creek Co. to David Rusk at Nacogdoches asking for the title and any paperwork to the Thomas Stanford League that Rusk and Daniel Lacy located. Spring Creek Co. was abolished in 1842, 6/24/1841*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 44, Item: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk.
This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include:
• Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates:
6/24/1841*
Certified copy of a 5/15/1837 Nacogdoches Co. deed of conveyance (#216) from Thomas Stanford to David Rusk and Daniel Lacy giving them power of attorney over one league and labor of land and ownership of half of the league and labor, 8/7/1857
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 44, Item: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk.
This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include:
• Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates:
8/7/1857
Certified copy of a 5/15/1837 Nacogdoches Co. deed of conveyance (#217) from Thomas Stanford to David Rusk and Daniel Lacy giving them power of attorney over one league and labor of land and ownership of half of the league and labor, 8/7/1857
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 44, Item: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk.
This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include:
• Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates:
8/7/1857
Certified copy of a 5/15/1837 Nacogdoches Co. deed of conveyance (#217) from Thomas Stanford to David Rusk and Daniel Lacy giving them power of attorney over one league and labor of land and ownership of half of the league and labor, 12/1/1869
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 44, Item: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk.
This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include:
• Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates:
12/1/1869
Letter from George C. Robards at Hannibal, Missouri to David Rusk about Thomas Stanford League in Cherokee Co., Nacogdoches Co. and Wood Co. He asks Rusk for information on what land remains in the Stanford estate so that he can help his clients, two of Stanford’s widows and one of his daughters, all of whom “are poor people and need all they can possibly realize from their claims.” Robards also mentions that he heard Rusk sold his interest in Wood Co. to C. W. Chaney, 2/12/1875*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 44, Item: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk.
This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include:
• Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates:
2/12/1875*
Letter from Henry H. Stanford at Pleasant View, Illinois to David Rusk at Nacogdoches inquiring about the condition and valuation of his father Thomas Stanford’s land in Nacogdoches Co. Henry has a one-fifth interest in his father’s estate and offers to sell it to Rusk, 7/28/1877
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 44, Item: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk.
This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include:
• Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates:
7/28/1877
Nacogdoches Co. - Thomas Stanford league
File — Box: 1, Folder: 44
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk.
This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include:
• Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates:
Event: The Thomas J. Rusk Letters (59 originals, 1 photocopy) were loaned from 6/24/1975 to early 2005.; Event: Purchased by the University 9/26/2016.; Event: Purchased materials received by the ETRC 10/10/2016.; Event: Addendum of donated materials received by the ETRC 10/24/2016.; Event: Addendum of donated materials received by the ETRC 1/23/2017.; Event: Addendum of donated materials received by the ETRC 3/15/2017.
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