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This collection has photocopies of Edwin N. Swinburn's autobiography, his Confederate enlistment and discharge papers, newspaper articles about his wife's death, and reminiscences of his 86th, 88th, 90th birthday.

Abstract

The Herrera Family Papers document the history of a longstanding Hispanic family in Nacogdoches County, Texas, from the nineteenth through the twentieth century. Materials include an original 1871 land grant signed by Governor Richard B. Hubbard, deeds, photographs, account books, and family records that trace the Herrera family's land ownership, community connections, and multigenerational presence in East Texas.

Scope and Contents The L. T. Barret Collection compliments the more extensive Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers (A-5) by adding new documentation of L. T. Barret’s mercantile and farming pursuits, military service, masonry, and community service. While the collection consists primarily of bills, receipts and promissory notes issued and received by L. T. Barret and Thomas Jefferson Johnson, there is also business, family, military, and personal correspondence, advertising, slave contracts and legal documents. ...

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Stamped "General Index - Peyton F. Edwards" the ledger serves as an index to Dockets D and E of an unidentified record of judgments. The names included in the index are those of Nacogdoches residents of the period.