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Box 2

 Container

Contains 94 Results:

Promissory note from Daniel McCollum to Thomas J. Rusk for $1.6875, 2/7/1832*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 50, 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: 2/7/1832*

Promissory note from Mark Black to Thomas J. Rusk for $2.62, 10/16/1832*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 51, 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: 10/16/1832*

Promissory note from John Southerlin to Thomas J. Rusk for $4.625, 8/6/1833*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 52, 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: 8/6/1833*

Promissory note from James Graham to Thomas J. Rusk for $50, 10/25/1833*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 53, 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: 10/25/1833*

Promissory notes from Samuel Stockton to Thomas J. Rusk for $30 and $20, 3/3/1834*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 54, 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: 3/3/1834*

Promissory note from Thomas C. Bell to Thomas J. Rusk for $30, 10/20/1834*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 55, 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: 10/20/1834*

Promissory note from William ____ (??) to Terrell and Rusk for $5, 4/16/1832

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 56, 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: 4/16/1832

Promissory note from John S. Bramblet to Thomas J. Rusk for $3.75 dated 8/25/1832 (recto). In the case of a plaintiff (unidentified) vs. Jesse Sanford, a jury found for Sanford. Adjacent is an annotation by Justice of the Peace Archibald Gaddis transferring the cost of the promissory note to the plaintiff (verso), 6/27/1835*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 57, 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: 6/27/1835*

Note from Thomas J. Rusk to Mr. Robinson certifying that the letter Robinson enclosed was a correct copy of a letter Rusk wrote to May Marshall June 28, 1857, 7/18/1857

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 59, 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: 7/18/1857

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

Letter from E. M. Chapman at Elmo to his sister Henrietta Rusk about family, family photographs, weather, and the effect of the bollworm on their cotton crop, 8/12/1888*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 63, 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: 8/12/1888*

Letter (recto) from B. F. Cotton at Eastland to John Rusk at Nacogdoches advising Rusk that E. M. Chapman has just bought land for him in Eastland Co. and that Rusk needs to send a letter authorizing a land agent to file the paperwork and send the original deed to Nacogdoches. Cotton transcribes the letter he wants Rusk to write. 3/29/1892. Letter (verso) from E. M. Chapman to his brother-in-law John Rusk informing about Rusk about a recent land purchase and advising him to follow the instructions of Chapman’s lawyer B. F. Cotton. Includes envelope, 3/29/1892

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 64, 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: 3/29/1892

Postcard from E. M. Chapman at Eastland to his brother-in-law John Rusk at Nacogdoches asking for an answer to his letters, 12/28/1893

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 65, 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: 12/28/1893

Partial letter from E. M. Chapman to his brother-in-law John Rusk about the pros and cons of Rusk’s son William Thomas coming to work for him, Undated*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 66, 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: 1903

Letter from E. T. Foster at Liberty Hill to his cousin John Rusk looking to reconnect after many years and asking for news from the Rusk, Blair or Powell family lines. Includes envelope, 9/14/1892*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 67, 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: 9/14/1892*

Letter from attorney R. H. Morris at Rusk to John Rusk at Nacogdoches advising him to hold on selling land until the transaction between the Iron Company and D. C. Jones & Co. is settled, 5/16/1888

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 68, 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: 5/16/1888

Letter from attorneys Gregg and Morris at Rusk to John Rusk at Nacogdoches offering to sell his land in Cherokee Co., 5/20/1890*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 69, 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: 5/20/1890*

Postcard from Cherokee Co. tax collector G. W. Gibson to John Rusk acknowledging receipt of a letter, 2/17/1881*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 70, 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: 2/17/1881*

Letter from W. H. Rusk at Nacogdoches to Thomas Gafford about how he is honoring their trade even though he was just offered $600 for the land that was in the trade, 2/8/1884

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 73, 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: 2/8/1884

Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. tax collector M. Mast to John Rusk for his 1875 Nacogdoches Co. taxes, 1/28/1876*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 74, 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: 1/28/1876*