Box 1
Container
Contains 111 Results:
Power of attorney from David Rusk to Amos Clark for managing Rusk’s annual Texas Revolution veteran’s pension, 12/31/1870
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 118, 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:
12/31/1870
Newspaper article on the new veterans pension bill. Photocopied, c.1874*
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 119, 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:
c.1874*
Form letter from Frederick Voight offering his services settling land and pension claims, 5/15/1874
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 120, 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:
5/15/1874
Appointment by Republic of Texas President Sam Houston of David Rusk as President of the Nacogdoches Co. Board of Land Commissioners, 12/19/1837
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, 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:
12/19/1837
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
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The Rusk Family Letters
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David Rusk
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Appointments
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Box 1
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Republic of Texas
Appointment by the County Clerk of Nacogdoches Co. of David Rusk as overseer on the Second Class road from Nacogdoches to Norris’ Ferry, 2/17/1851
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, 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:
2/17/1851
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
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Appointments
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Box 1
/
Nacogdoches County
Letter from Thomas J. Rusk at Nacogdoches to David Rusk at San Augustine letting David know that Noblett is coming to see him and request that he come to Nacogdoches. Thomas writes that he has hardly had time to sit down since coming home from the army, 12/23/1835
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, 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:
12/23/1835
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Family correspondence
/
Box 1
/
Thomas J. Rusk
Letter from Thomas J. Rusk at Clarksville to David Rusk at Nacogdoches letting David know he’ll be home in a few weeks after having travelled to Panola, Paschal (judicial county, no longer exists), Bowie and Red River Counties on business, 10/5/1841
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4, 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:
10/5/1841
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Family correspondence
/
Box 1
/
Thomas J. Rusk
Letter from Thomas J. Rusk at Washington, D. C. to David Rusk at Nacogdoches letting David know that he has arrived in the capitol, sat in his Senate seat and will shortly meet the President. Thomas also writes that he has met with their uncle Preston Starritt, that people are talking about Oregon and the possibility of a war, 3/27/1846
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5, 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:
3/27/1846
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Family correspondence
/
Box 1
/
Thomas J. Rusk
Letter from Thomas J. Rusk at Washington, D. C. to David Rusk at Nacogdoches in which Thomas is upbeat about his relationship with other Senators but frustrated by the President, who he feels is still giving him short shrift for a perceived friendship with John C. Calhoun. Rusk characterizes the President as a “weak, vacillating man,” says Sam Houston “pretends great friendship,” and warns David about working with Texas’ new U. S. Marshal John M. Allen, who he thinks is unprincipled, 7/8/1846
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, 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:
7/8/1846
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Family correspondence
/
Box 1
/
Thomas J. Rusk
Letter from Thomas J. Rusk at Nacogdoches to David Rusk at Nacogdoches with updates on two cases that Thomas was litigating. The first case was for David and involved the sale of a slave; the second pertained to Sam Houston, 10/12/1847
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7, 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:
10/12/1847
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Family correspondence
/
Box 1
/
Thomas J. Rusk
Letter from Thomas J. Rusk at Washington, D. C. to David Rusk at Nacogdoches noting the nominations of Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass as Presidential candidates, Thomas’ opinion about a trip by Sam Houston to New York and Rusk’s hope that Texas will not support Taylor for President because of his conduct during the Battle of Monterrey (1846), 6/9/1848
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8, 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:
6/9/1848
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
David Rusk
/
Family correspondence
/
Box 1
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Thomas J. Rusk
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