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Box 1

 Container

Contains 7 Results:

Letter from Elisha Gaines in Upshur Co. to David Rusk asking if they can renegotiate a deed and wanting to know about the price of mules in Nacogdoches Co., 8/30/1853

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 53, 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: 8/30/1853

Letter from Henry Hester to David Rusk at Nacogdoches letting Rusk know that he has sold his interest in the land he bought from Rusk to Elisha Gaines, 2/20/1854

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 53, 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: 2/20/1854

Letter from Elisha Gaines in Upshur Co. to David Rusk at Nacogdoches letting Rusk that he has not been able to come up with all the money to pay off the money Hester owed on the land, 10/16/1854

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 53, 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: 10/16/1854

Letter from Elisha Gaines in Upshur Co. to David Rusk at Nacogdoches explaining why he has not been able to come up with the money he owes to Rusk, 1/26/1855

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 53, 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: 1/26/1855

Letter from Elisha Gaines in Upshur Co. to David Rusk at Nacogdoches letting Rusk know that he needs another month to pay him his money, 12/6/1855*

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 53, 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: 12/6/1855*

Letter from Ephraim P. Moore at Quitman to David Rusk at Nacogdoches about secession excitement in Henderson and the variable quality of Rusk’s land in Upshur Co., 12/16/1860

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 53, 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: 12/16/1860

Upshur Co., 1853-1860

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 53
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: 1853-1860