Box 2
Container
Contains 84 Results:
Promissory note from James Russell to Thomas J. Rusk for $5.3125, 3/20/1832*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 50, 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:
3/20/1832*
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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Georgia
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Box 2
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Promissory notes
Promissory note from James L. Howell to Thomas J. Rusk for $6.25 dated 4/16/1832 (recto). Rusk received $5 on the note (verso), 10/17/1832*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 51, 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:
10/17/1832*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
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Thomas J. Rusk
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Georgia
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Box 2
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Promissory notes
Promissory note from James Woody to Thomas J. Rusk for $10, 8/24/1833*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 52, 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:
8/24/1833*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
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Thomas J. Rusk
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Georgia
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Box 2
/
Promissory notes
Promissory note from Thomas W. A. Sumter to Jackson Davis for $5 dated 10/23/1833 (recto). Assigned by Davis to Thomas J. Rusk (verso), 11/14/1833*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 53, 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:
11/14/1833*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
Thomas J. Rusk
/
Georgia
/
Box 2
/
Promissory notes
Promissory notes from M. F. Cannon and A. R. J. Hunter to Thomas J. Rusk for $50 each, 5/24/1834*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 54, 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:
5/24/1834*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
Thomas J. Rusk
/
Georgia
/
Box 2
/
Promissory notes
Promissory note from James Johnson, Thomas Pilgrim and Benjamin C. Hatfield to Thomas J. Rusk for $25, 11/4/1834*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 55, 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:
11/4/1834*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
Thomas J. Rusk
/
Georgia
/
Box 2
/
Promissory notes
Promissory note from William Bearitt (??) to Terrell and Rusk for $70, 4/23/1832
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 56, 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:
4/23/1832
Promissory note from James Kuykendall to Thomas J. Rusk for $7.375 dated 1/14/1832 (recto). David Rusk received a payment of $5 (verso), 11/8/1835*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 57, 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:
11/8/1835*
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
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Box 2
/
Law practice
Postcard from E. M. Chapman at Ranger to his brother-in-law John Rusk at Nacogdoches about the lack of recent correspondence, 3/23/1890
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 63, 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:
3/23/1890
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
John Rusk
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Family correspondence
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Box 2
/
E. M. Chapman
Promissory note from John Rusk at Eastland to Mrs. A. V. Chapman and E. M. Chapman for $2,500 to help them buy land in Eastland Co. and McClellan Co (recto). Annotation of “Paid” (verso), 3/29/1892*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 64, 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:
3/29/1892*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
John Rusk
/
Family correspondence
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Box 2
/
E. M. Chapman
Letter from E. M. Chapman at Peoria, Texas to his brother-in-law John Rusk at Nacogdoches about land matters in Eastland Co. being held up in Justice Court and that the man he is renting his farm to allowed one of Chapman’s horses starve to death. Includes envelope, 1/11/1894*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 65, 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:
1/11/1894*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
John Rusk
/
Family correspondence
/
Box 2
/
E. M. Chapman
Note from E. M. Chapman about using syrup of yerba santa to mask the taste of quinine and other medicines, Undated*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 66, 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:
1903
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
John Rusk
/
Family correspondence
/
Box 2
/
E. M. Chapman
Postcard from Velma to her grandfather John Rusk at Nacogdoches reporting on family health, Undated*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 67, 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:
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.
Note to look in Nacogdoches Co. District Court minute books ‘G’ and ‘M’ for information on the partition of some of John Rusk’s land, Undated*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 68, 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:
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.
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
John Rusk
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Land papers
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Box 2
/
General correspondence
Letter from attorneys Gregg and Morris at Rusk to John Rusk at Nacogdoches letting him know they think they can get $3 per acre for his land in Cherokee Co. but that the price might go higher if he waits another year. Includes envelope, 7/5/1890*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 69, 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:
7/5/1890*
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
/
The Rusk Family Letters
/
John Rusk
/
Land papers
/
Box 2
/
Cherokee Co.
Receipt from the Cherokee Co. tax collector G. W. Gibson at Rusk to John Rusk at Nacogdoches, 2/19/1883
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 70, 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:
2/19/1883
Certified copy of plat and field notes for 400 acres of land sold by W. H. Rusk and John Rusk to Thomas Gafford in Hopkins Co. The land comes from 640 acres originally patented to David Rusk (includes map), c.1884
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 73, 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:
c.1884
Letter from Wood Co. County Clerk Jno. T. Craddock at Quitman to John Rusk letting him know he owes $0.32. Includes envelope, 4/29/1885*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 78, 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:
4/29/1885*
Receipt from George H. Davidson and J. P. Sutphen at Nacogdoches to John Rusk, 10/20/1887
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 81, 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:
10/20/1887