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Bundle 1

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Contains 5 Results:

Plat map showing the land of J. de los Santos Coy (in yellow) on Naconiche Creek and bordered by M. Snyder, Ybarbo, Medino, Jordan, and Samuel Norris, 16 x 20”

 Item — Bundle: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: 1826-1942; Event: Donated in 1963

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”

 Item — Bundle: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: 1826-1942; Event: Donated in 1963

Untitled plat map, 12 x 16.5”

 Item — Bundle: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: 1826-1942; Event: Donated in 1963

Plat map of the land between Alazan Bayou and Miral Bayou, and south of the John Durst road, principally constituting of Jose Francisco Santa Cruz’s rancho “Moral”, the Juan Isidro Acosta League, and land owned by Charles Hotchkiss, 13 x 16”

 Item — Bundle: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: 1826-1942; Event: Donated in 1963

Blueprint map showing “1280 acres known as McIver Tract, Orange County, Texas,” owned by James Perkins, and surveyed by Sykes and Omohundro, 14.25 x 18”, 5/14/1901

 Item — Bundle: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: 5/14/1901