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Archivo General De La Nacion Mexico Historia Records
Collection
Identifier: B-0043
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of selected documents from the Mexican Archives relating to the resettlement of Nacogdoches and East Texas by the citizens of Los Adaes and to the missions Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de los Nacogdoches and Nuestra Senora de los Dolores de los Ais (San Augustine).
Dates:
1773-1793
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Bureau of East Texas Research
Collection
Identifier: UA-110
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection is made up of correspondence by Dr. Robert Maxwell trying to solicit materials for the Bureau.
Dates:
1906-1966
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Carolyn Reeves Ericson Research Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0099
Scope and Contents
The collection contains research materials used for six of Ericson's books; Nacogdoches Fires and Firemen (1976), The People of Nacogdoches County in the Civil War (1980), Panola County, Texas in the Civil War (2001), Sabine County, Texas in the Civil War (2001), and San Augustine County, Texas in the Civil War (2002).
Dates:
1783-1988
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
East Texas Railroads and Locomotives Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0080
Scope and Contents
A collection of materials compiled from various sources concerning many of the railroad lines which have operated in East Texas. Included in the collection are an original first mortgage bond of the Houston East and West Texas Railway Company, the Articles of Incorporation of the Red River, Sabine and Western Railway Company, a subscription list for a proposed line of the Texas and New Orleans Railway Company through Nacogdoches, correspondence relating to the history of the Moscow, Camden...
Dates:
1853-1985
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
George Aldrich Papers
Collection
Identifier: A-0050
Scope and Contents
The correspondence in these papers, directed to Aldrich, mostly deals with surveys and sale of land. Among the more interesting letters in this collection are: Charles A. Sewell's denying that he ever sold arms to the Caddo Indians (1839); Charles Taylor's relating the marriage of Anna Raguet to Robert Irion, whom she chose over Sam Houston (1840); and that of David G. Burnet, Secretary of State (once President) of the Republic of Texas, calling for a survey of land for the establishment of...
Dates:
1835-1854; Event: Donated in 1932
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Hubert Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A-0058
Dates:
1838-1942; Donated in 1971
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
J. B. Sanders Research Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0273
Scope and Contents
The research collection has a wide range of materials--correspondence, maps, negatives, photographic prints, pedigree charts, research for Sanders’s publications, as well as a few of those publications—concerning the families and places of East Texas. The majority of negatives and prints are photographs of other photographs or documents. Several prints, especially those of a 1928 lynching at the Center Courthouse, are particularly graphic.
There are several oversize documents in the...
Dates:
1833-1978
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Levi Henderson Ashcroft Reminiscences
Collection
Identifier: A-0060
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the reminiscences of Levi Ashcroft (Ashcraft) during the turbulent years from 1838-1855 in Louisiana and East Texas. Ashcroft's reminiscences begin with an account of abuses of the legal system arising from the influx of lawless characters into the Neutral Ground between Texas and Louisiana. He writes of the murder of Joseph G. Goodbread by Charles W. Jackson, who, upon being acquitted of the murder, formed the band of Regulators to suppress crime. When the...
Dates:
1835-1855; Event: Donated in 1925; Event: Addendum donated in 1943
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Nacogdoches Archives Records
Collection
Identifier: B-0042
Scope and Contents
Typescripts of official records created and accumulated at Nacogdoches during the Spanish and Mexican periods. Includes correspondence, decrees, orders, circulars, and other communications sent to the frontier from higher governmental authorities; correspondence of the commandant; correspondence and proceedings of the alcaldes and ayuntamiento of Nacogdoches; and records relating to adjacent territories of Anahuac, Attoyac, Ayish Bayou, Liberty, Neches, Sabine, San Augustine, and San Felipe....
Dates:
1731-1836; Event: Transcribed from 1928-1929
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Quillian Garrison Research Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0042
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, notes, copies of documents such as military records, Bible records, obituary notices, census data, deeds, death certificates, and newspaper clippings used by Miss Quillian Garrison to do the research for her book Descendants of Caleb Garrison, Sr. and His Wife, Sarah Fleming 1797-1966. Many of the descendants of Caleb Garrison lived in East Texas. The town of Garrison in Nacogdoches County is named for the Garrison family. There...
Dates:
1831-1973
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
R. B. Blake Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0000
Scope and Contents
Typed transcripts and translations made by Blake, Nacogdoches County Clerk, of official records and personal papers found in the Office of the County Clerk in Nacogdoches, in the Nacogdoches Archives, in the General Land Office of Texas, and in the University of Texas Archives (including the Bexar Archives). Included in the collection are legal papers, census records, jury verdicts, promissory notes, summonses, election returns, bills of sale for slaves, civil and criminal proceedings, and...
Dates:
1628-1941
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Robert Bruce Blake Papers
Collection
Identifier: A-0007
Scope and Contents
The first three boxes of the collection consist of typescripts and carbon copies mostly duplicates of material found in the R. B. Blake Collection of 93 bound volumes in the East Texas Research Center. In some cases the original documents from which the typescripts were made are in other collections in this Department.
Box 4 contains correspondence of Blake, L. W. Kemp, Lota M. Spell, Webb Roberts, John V. Singletary, W. Us Perkins, Addie Birdwell, Paul J. Folk, Lewis J. Wilson, and O. A....
Dates:
1791-1938; Event: Donated in 1938
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Woldert Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A-0095
Scope and Contents
Chiefly writings on East Texas history by William Albert and Albert Woldert of Tyler, Texas. Also includes some papers relating to William W. Wingfield of Nacogdoches County, Texas.
The collection includes:
- A letter from Albert Woldert, M. D., to Rev. George L. Crocket and a carbon copy of a typed manuscript (with handwritten notes and corrections) called THE ACTUAL LOCATION OF THE TEJAS VILLAGE (SAN PEDRO) AND THE SPANISH MISSIONS IN HOUSTON COUNTY,...
Dates:
1838-1934
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
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