Box 1
Container
Contains 11 Results:
Receipt from H. Warfield to David Rusk for hiring-out the slave Alford for 43 days, 2/9/1840*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 91, 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:
2/9/1840*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
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The Rusk Family Letters
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David Rusk
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Personal/Business expenses
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Box 1
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Slaves
Nacogdoches Co. deed of sale of the slave boy Ephraim from Isam Medford to Deborah Gildon, 1/29/1845
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 91, 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:
1/29/1845
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Personal/Business expenses
/
Box 1
/
Slaves
Nacogdoches Co. deed for a slave named Mira from Anthony G. Hyde to David Rusk, 4/19/1849
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 91, 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:
4/19/1849
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Personal/Business expenses
/
Box 1
/
Slaves
Receipt from Mr. Thorn, for P. U. Ford & Co., to David Rusk for hiring the slave girl Violet for the year 1851, 2/1/1850
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 91, 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:
2/1/1850
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Personal/Business expenses
/
Box 1
/
Slaves
Letter from Nancy Hamilton to David and Elizabeth Rusk apologizing for and begging forgiveness for a slave named Violet that had ran away from the Rusk’s and returned to Hamilton, 11/7/1850
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 91, 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:
11/7/1850
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Personal/Business expenses
/
Box 1
/
Slaves
Letter from Frances and Burnett to David Rusk recommending a homeopathic remedy to rheumatism instead of a doctor for Rusk’s slave girl Violet, 5/25/1851
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 91, 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:
5/25/1851
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Personal/Business expenses
/
Box 1
/
Slaves
Letter from William B. Chisum in Rusk Co. to David Rusk at Nacogdoches with information that Rusk’s runaway slave Cain had been in the neighborhood to visit his wife and told Chisum that he had Rusk’s permission to be there, 1/22/1853*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 91, 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:
1/22/1853*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Personal/Business expenses
/
Box 1
/
Slaves
Bill of costs from Nacogdoches Co. Jailor S. H. Cain to David Rusk for the capture, lodging and delivering of Rusk’s runaway slave Ephraim, 1/28/1853
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 91, Item: 8
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:
1/28/1853
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Personal/Business expenses
/
Box 1
/
Slaves
Nacogdoches Co. deed for a slave named Lize from Thomas Hodges to David Rusk, 10/30/1854*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 91, Item: 9
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:
10/30/1854*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Personal/Business expenses
/
Box 1
/
Slaves
Letter from R. S. Elliott at Shreveport to David Rusk at Nacogdoches offering to sell a 25-year old slave blacksmith for $1,500. Includes envelope, 12/22/1856*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 91, Item: 10
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:
12/22/1856*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Personal/Business expenses
/
Box 1
/
Slaves
Slaves
File — Box: 1, Folder: 91
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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