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Box 2

 Container

Contains 6 Results:

Letter from Jno. A. Winn at Melrose to Nacogdoches Co. Sheriff David Rusk about $15 in counterfeit money that Winn received, 4/27/1843

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 31, 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: 4/27/1843

Letter from C. A. Yarborough in Cherokee Co. to Nacogdoches Co. Sheriff David Rusk providing a description of a fugitive man that Rusk requested (not a runaway slave). Includes envelope, 7/31/1845

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 31, 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: 7/31/1845

Letter from Haden H. Edwards to Nacogdoches Co. Sheriff David Rusk asking him to assist Edwards in providing security for a Mrs. Cordero. She claims that Delores Cortinez had someone attack her son’s horse to settle a debt owed by Vicente Cordero to Juan de los Santos Coy, 8/14/1845*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 31, 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: 8/14/1845*

Letter from Charles Chevaillier and James K. Arnold to Nacogdoches Co. Sheriff David Rusk notifying him that he will be making a motion for a ruling against Rusk in the Nacogdoches Co. District Court case of Charles Chevaillier vs. Robert F. Millard and John S. Roberts, 11/20/1845*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 31, 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: 11/20/1845*

Letter from Charles S. Mariner, Acting Secretary of State, writing for Governor J. Pinckney Henderson, informing the Nacogdoches Co. District Clerk that the appeal of William G. Lewis, convicted of assault on William Hart, will not be vacated by the Governor, 3/17/1846

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 31, 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: 3/17/1846

General correspondence

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 31
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.