Box 2
Container
Contains 5 Results:
Law practice
File — Box: 2, Folder: 61
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.
Typed transcript of a proclamation by participants in the grand jury process (jurors, judge, lawyers, court officials) of Nacogdoches Co. about their service for the September 1837 term. Thomas J. Rusk speaks for the lawyers and court officials (including sheriff David Rusk) about liberty, c.1837
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 61, 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:
c.1837
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
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The Rusk Family Letters
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Thomas J. Rusk
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Texas
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Box 2
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Law practice
Letter from James H. Starr to Thomas J. Rusk seeking advice about how to proceed in a court case involving Kelsey H. Douglass and Col. Landrum, c.4/1839*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 61, 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.4/1839*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
Thomas J. Rusk
/
Texas
/
Box 2
/
Law practice
Letter from Peter Ellis Bean to Thomas J. Rusk asking Rusk to represent Mr. Acosto in a land case. Lurvay and Gowen are suing Acosto for illegally harvest timber. Bean believes Acosto owns the land, 10/26/1841
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 61, 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:
10/26/1841
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
Thomas J. Rusk
/
Texas
/
Box 2
/
Law practice
Letter from Charles Hunter at Robertson, Texas to his lawyer Thomas J. Rusk at Nacogdoches giving Rusk the background details of the case since Hunter cannot be present for the trial. Hunter got General Douglass to write a promissory note for him for $290 of freight from the steamboat Trinity in June 1840. Garner and Caldwell (the owners) claim Douglass never paid them and sued Hunter for costs, 4/7/1843
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 61, 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:
4/7/1843
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
Thomas J. Rusk
/
Texas
/
Box 2
/
Law practice
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