Box 2
Container
Contains 815 Results:
Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer William Hart to Sheriff David Rusk for the collection of a $1 fine imposed by the District Court on Harmon Robinson, 5/21/1844*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 21, Item: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
5/21/1844*
Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer William Hart to Sheriff David Rusk for the collection of fines owed by P. Walling ($10) and Charles Chevaillier ($15), 5/31/1844*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 21, Item: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
5/31/1844*
Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer William Hart to Deputy Sheriff John Noblett for the collection of fines owed by Abm. H. Hart ($5) and Juan Mora ($10), 6/21/1844*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 21, Item: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
6/21/1844*
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:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
6/25/1844*
Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer William Hart to Sheriff David Rusk for the collection of a $10 fine imposed by the District Court on Senora Tomilens (??), 9/4/1844*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 21, Item: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
9/4/1844*
Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer William Hart to Sheriff David Rusk for the collection of a $35 fine imposed by the District Court on William G. Lewis, 5/5/1845*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 22, Item: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
5/5/1845*
Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer William Hart to Sheriff David Rusk for the collection of a $5 fine imposed by the District Court on Pleasant Wright, 11/24/1845*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 22, Item: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
11/24/1845*
Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer William Hart to Sheriff David Rusk for the collection of fines owed by Green K. Sesseny ($1.00), John W. Moffitt ($0.10) and John Balch ($0.10), 12/31/1845*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 22, Item: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
12/31/1845*
Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer William Hart to Sheriff David Rusk for the collection of a $5 fine imposed by the District Court on J. M. Ortin, 3/4/1846*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 22, Item: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
3/4/1846*
Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer William Hart to Sheriff David Rusk for the collection of a $35 fine imposed by the District Court on William T. Long, 3/13/1846*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 22, Item: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
3/13/1846*
Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Treasurer William Hart to Sheriff David Rusk for the collection of a $40 fine imposed by the District Court on William G. Lewis, 4/7/1846*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 22, Item: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
4/7/1846*
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:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
5/19/1846*
Receipt from Nacogdoches Co. Sheriff David Rusk to land agent J. P. McDonald for 1844 taxes, 1/5/1846*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 23, Item: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
1/5/1846*
Receipt from G. W. Terrell to Nacogdoches Co. Sheriff David Rusk for $9,412 in , 12/1/1841*
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 24, Item: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
12/1/1841*
Letter from G. W. Terrell to Nacogdoches Co. Sheriff David Rusk about the likelihood that a mistake was made calculating the taxes owed by Dr. Givens, 3/3/1844
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 24, Item: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
3/3/1844
Note from G. W. Terrell to someone explaining that he spent $50 of the $2,480 David Rusk gave him to deposit at Washington-on-the-Brazos from Dr. Givens’ lands but that the receipt given to the Treasury Department had $2,480 on it, c.1844
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 24, Item: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
c.1844
Letter from G. W. Terrell to Sheriff David Rusk about “missing” tax money from Nacogdoches Co. In previous correspondence Rusk suggested the evidence was lost in a fire. Terrell writes Rusk that the fire was only for the books of the Secretary of Treasury but not for the entire Treasury Department. Terrell assures Rusk he deposited the money with the Secretary of the Treasury and there is record of the transaction in the Treasury Department books. Terrell also informs Rusk about the “loose manner” of the Treasury Department and that another tax payment presumed lost or stolen by Rusk for $2,500 has been found, so he need not worry about that, 3/17/1846
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 24, Item: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
3/17/1846
Letter from Republic of Texas auditor Musgrove Evans to Sheriff David Rusk on his 1839 expenses transporting prisoners, 10/16/1839
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 25, Item: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
10/16/1839
Letter from a man sent by Nacogdoches Co. Sheriff David Rusk to Austin to contest or settle account claims with the Republic of Texas Treasury Department, 7/9/1841
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 25, Item: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
7/9/1841
Letter from a man sent by Nacogdoches Co. Sheriff David Rusk to Austin to contest or settle account claims with the Republic of Texas Treasury Department, 7/16/1841
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 25, Item: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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 David Rusk. These touch on a number of national issues including: Texas annexation, Oregon Territory, the Mexican-American War, the Pearl Incident, the Compromise of 1850, and the route of the Transcontinental Railroad....
Dates:
7/16/1841
