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Box 2

 Container

Contains 50 Results:

Duplicate receipt from H. W. Raglin, Special Assistant to the Republic of Texas Treasury Department, to Nacogdoches Co. Sheriff David Rusk for $609.92 in 1840 tax money, 6/4/1841

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, 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: 6/4/1841

Receipt No.280 from James B. Shaw, acting Secretary of the Republic of Texas Treasury Department, to Nacogdoches Co. Sheriff David Rusk for $244.25 of 1842 and 1843 taxes collected, 7/5/1844*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5, 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: 7/5/1844*

Letter from J. A. Greer, Secretary of the Republic of Texas Treasury Department, to Nacogdoches Co. Sheriff David Rusk notifying Rusk that $2.03 has been adjusted on the county’s taxes, 7/5/1845

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 6, 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: 7/5/1845

Letter from Comptroller James B. Shaw at Austin to Nacogdoches Co. Sheriff David Rusk letting Rusk know that $135 of Nacogdoches Co. tax money has been deposited into the Treasury, 10/2/1846*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 11, 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: 10/2/1846*

Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer Daniel Lacy to Sheriff David Rusk for the collection of $154 taxes for 1838 owed by George A. Nixon, 11/20/1839*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 12, 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: 11/20/1839*

Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer William Hart to Sheriff David Rusk for the collection of $81 in 1841 taxes, 12/19/1843*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 14, 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: 12/19/1843*

Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer William Hart to Sheriff David Rusk for the collection of $94.75 in taxes, 7/29/1844*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 15, 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: 7/29/1844*

Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer William Hart to Sheriff David Rusk for the collection of $27 in 1844 taxes, 3/26/1845*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 16, 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: 3/26/1845*

Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer William Hart to Sheriff David Rusk for the collection of $62 in taxes, 12/30/1845*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 17, 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: 12/30/1845*

List of receipts (2 total) from William Hart, Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer, to Sheriff David Rusk for collecting individual fines from John McNally and William H. King, 11/3/1842

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 19, 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: 11/3/1842

Partial receipt from the Nacogdoches Co. District Court to ____ (??) for collecting a $15 fine imposed by the District Court on William J. Smith, 6/25/1844*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 21, 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: 6/25/1844*

Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer William Hart to Sheriff David Rusk for the collection of a $33.50 fine imposed by the District Court on John T. Goham, 5/19/1846*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 22, 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: 5/19/1846*

Nacogdoches Co. order for the Sheriff to liquidate as many assets as necessary for Absalom Gibson and John H. Durrets to pay off the debt they owe John S. Thorn. The case was adjudicated 4/21/1840 in the County Court, 6/7/1840*

 Item — Box: 2, 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: 6/7/1840*

Letter from G. M. Gould in San Augustine to Frederick F. Phillips about the execution of a claim against Robert Allen & Co. in the Nacogdoches Co. Court, 7/14/1841

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 33, 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: 7/14/1841

Letter from W. F. Lacy to Nacogdoches Co. Sheriff David Rusk pleading Rusk not to sell any of Lacy’s land in execution of cases he lost to S. W. Blount and Hayden Edwards until he returns to town, 3/16/1845

 Item — Box: 2, 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: 3/16/1845

Letter from Isaac Parker at Mustang Prairie, writing for Mrs. William F. Allison, to Nacogdoches Co. Sheriff David Rusk explaining that since Allison is in the army he cannot be called to testify in a court case. Parker recommends Rusk secure the testimony of James Hutton in Rusk Co. instead of Allison or that Rusk recommend to the judge that a continuance be issued on the case until the war is over, 8/18/1846

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 35, 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: 8/18/1846

Summons sent to the Sheriff of Nacogdoches Co. for S. A. Stockton to give evidence in the San Augustine Co. case of Thomas B. Davenport vs. Bird L. Hanks, 8/30/1845*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 37, 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: 8/30/1845*

Nacogdoches Co. sheriff’s sale record for 10 civil court cases, Undated

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 39, 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: 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.

Judgment by Nacogdoches Co. Justice of the Peace Bennett Blake ordering the Sheriff or Jailor of Nacogdoches Co. to hold a runaway slave named Jim Brown until his owner Charles F. Harris come to claim him from Caddo Parish, LA. Brown was captured in Nacogdoches Co. by Elias N. Eubank, 6/24/1846*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 40, 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: 6/24/1846*

Court costs for four Nacogdoches Co. District Court civil cases, Undated

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 41, 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: 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.