Bundle 1
Contains 3 Results:
Nacogdoches Co. deed of trust from J. O. C. Branch to Bennett Blake for 197 acres to cover a $125 promissory note owed by Branch to Blake, 12/30/1885
The collection consists of letters, financial papers, legal documents, and land deeds, mostly of Bennett Blake, his immediate family, and related families. A significant portion of the papers relate to William Bonaparte McKnight, who married Mary Louisa Addie Blake. McKnight's papers include oil leases and negotiations for timber rights. Several original land grants are included in the collection, two signed by Republic of Texas President Anson Jones.
Plat map showing landowners along an unidentified creek. Bordered on the west by the Haden H. Edwards Reserve. Primary landowners shown are J. F. Roberts, N. J. Moore, David Muckleroy, Bennett Blake, Sam Houston, J. R. Arnold, Charles A. Barriere, heirs of J. J. Simpson, heirs of Maria Padilla and Antonio Padilla, Lina Padilla, and Peter Ellis Bean, 21 x 33”
The collection consists of letters, financial papers, legal documents, and land deeds, mostly of Bennett Blake, his immediate family, and related families. A significant portion of the papers relate to William Bonaparte McKnight, who married Mary Louisa Addie Blake. McKnight's papers include oil leases and negotiations for timber rights. Several original land grants are included in the collection, two signed by Republic of Texas President Anson Jones.
Inventory of property, real and personal, subject to taxation rendered by Bennett Blake for himself and others for the year 1873
The collection consists of letters, financial papers, legal documents, and land deeds, mostly of Bennett Blake, his immediate family, and related families. A significant portion of the papers relate to William Bonaparte McKnight, who married Mary Louisa Addie Blake. McKnight's papers include oil leases and negotiations for timber rights. Several original land grants are included in the collection, two signed by Republic of Texas President Anson Jones.
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