Box 1
Container
Contains 848 Results:
Cover letter from J. Crosby, General Land Office, at Austin to David Rusk at Nacogdoches for a land certificate (not enclosed) on the Jno. Sparks claim, 9/21/1856*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 32, 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:
9/21/1856*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
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The Rusk Family Letters
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David Rusk
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Land papers
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Box 1
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General Land Office
Letter from G. Crosby at the General Land Office in Austin to David Rusk at Nacogdoches letting Rusk know that certificates of balance are issued by the Commissioner of Claims, 9/1/1857
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 32, 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:
9/1/1857
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Land papers
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Box 1
/
General Land Office
Receipt from F. W. Moore, General Land Office to J. Crosby (for Starr and Amory) for $4.64, 20 percent of the $23.20 fees for two patents on 26 labors of land pertaining to Jose Maria Mora, 4/13/1858*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 32, 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:
4/13/1858*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Land papers
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Box 1
/
General Land Office
Letter from William C. Duffield to David Rusk about a proposition to buy land adjoining Rusk’s plantation in Jefferson Co. from a. Mr. Shelby and then sell it to Rusk, 6/13/1843
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 33, 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:
6/13/1843
Receipt from Anderson Co. tax collector William M. Gibson to David Rusk and Henry W. Raguet for 1848 taxes, Anderson Co. tax collector William M. Gibson to David Rusk and Henry W. Raguet for 1848 taxes.* 3/23/1849*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 33, 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:
Anderson Co. tax collector William M. Gibson to David Rusk and Henry W. Raguet for 1848 taxes.* 3/23/1849*
Receipt no.1082 from Comptroller James B. Shaw at Austin to David Rusk for his 1849 taxes on 1,535-acres of land in Anderson Co., 10/31/1849*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 33, 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:
10/31/1849*
Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. tax collector Andrew Caddel to David Rusk for his 1853 Henderson Co. taxes on the Jose Maria Mora land grant, 3/20/1854*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 33, 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:
3/20/1854*
Letter from James H. Starr to David Rusk letting him know that the Texas legislature has just passed a law that will allow Starr and Rusk to “float” the Mora headright in Henderson Co. Starr wants to meet with Rusk so that they can get started on the paperwork, 9/11/1856*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 33, 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:
9/11/1856*
Letter from W. M. Wagner at Longview to David Rusk at Nacogdoches about land in Smith Co. Includes envelope, 7/5/1871
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 33, 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:
7/5/1871
Letter from Robert W. Smith at Henderson to David Rusk at Nacogdoches talking about them going over to Cherokee Co. and inspecting some land on the Neches River as well the likelihood of a Christmas Ball being hosted by Col. Tipps, 12/21/1846
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 34, 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:
12/21/1846
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Land papers
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Box 1
/
Cherokee Co.
Cherokee Co. indenture renting and leasing land on the Angelina River for three years from David Rusk to C. D. Aston. Rusk’s terms included Aston build a log cabin and smokehouse, clear and farm at least 10 acres of land, maintain and operate a ferry boat, and pay half of ferry profits to Rusk, 1/1/1847
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 34, 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:
1/1/1847
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Land papers
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Box 1
/
Cherokee Co.
Note from Cherokee Co. tax collector Jesse Gibson at Rusk to David Rusk at Nacogdoches letting Rusk know how much tax he owes and that his land is up for sale in three weeks, 6/10/1848*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 34, 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:
6/10/1848*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Land papers
/
Box 1
/
Cherokee Co.
Letter from John H. Irby in Cherokee Co. to David Rusk at Nacogdoches about the disposition of their adjacent land surveys, 6/13/1848*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 34, 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:
6/13/1848*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Land papers
/
Box 1
/
Cherokee Co.
Receipt from Cherokee Co. tax collector Jesse Gibson to David Rusk at Nacogdoches Co. for his 1847-1848 taxes, 10/16/1848*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 34, 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:
10/16/1848*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Land papers
/
Box 1
/
Cherokee Co.
Letter from H. G. Hatchett in Cherokee Co. to David Rusk at Nacogdoches about land in Cherokee Co. Includes Envelope, 11/23/1849
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 34, 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:
11/23/1849
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Land papers
/
Box 1
/
Cherokee Co.
Partial letter from H. G. Hatchett and Isaac Wiseheart in Cherokee Co. to David Rusk about the hauling of planks and the use of a boat, 6/23/1850*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 34, 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:
6/23/1850*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Land papers
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Box 1
/
Cherokee Co.
Certified copy by S. A. Erwin of Joseph Burns’ land certificate for one league and labor in Cherokee Co. that includes part of the Thomas Stanford League, 9/11/1850*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 34, 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:
9/11/1850*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Land papers
/
Box 1
/
Cherokee Co.
Letter from S. M. Ashton in Cherokee Co. to David Rusk at Nacogdoches asking to buy land in Cherokee Co. on the Angelina River, 11/10/1852*
File — Box: 1, Folder: 35, 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:
11/10/1852*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Land papers
/
Box 1
/
Cherokee Co.
Letter from Rusk Co. to David Rusk inquiring about the price to buy some land Rusk owns in Cherokee Co. Includes envelope, 6/28/1853
File — Box: 1, Folder: 35, 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:
6/28/1853
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Land papers
/
Box 1
/
Cherokee Co.
Letter from Samuel W. Kirk at Nacogdoches to David Rusk asking him to come into town so they can discuss their land in Cherokee Co., 5/16/1856*
File — Box: 1, Folder: 35, 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:
5/16/1856*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Land papers
/
Box 1
/
Cherokee Co.
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