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Title of Land to John Adkinson

Original grant signed by Anson Jones with seal of General Land Office (detached)

Date: July 22, 1845

Item Type: Text

Map of Texas and the Country Adjacent

Hand-colored lithograph of Texas with statistics and references in lower left

Date: 1844

Creator: Emory, William H. (William Hemsley), 1811-1887

Item Type: Map

Spillholders

Pair of clear pressed glass spillholders with ground off pontil mark; design has strawberry diamonds and a large diamond with punty; some mold roughness; may be a Sandwich pattern

Date: 1840~/1860~

Item Type: Physical Object

Campaign ribbon

James K. Polk/George M. Dallas campaign ribbon; political campaign in which annexation of Texas was an issue

Date: 1844~

Item Type: Physical Object

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of Messrs. Butler and Lewis relative to the Indians of Texas and the southwestern prairies

Descriptions of Texas Indians of the Republic period; mention of captive Parker children

Date: February 8, 1847

Item Type: Letter

"Sweets for the Leisure Hours, or Flowers of Instruction"

Child's book, "moral, instructive, and entertaining" "for the mind and eyes"

Date: 1840

Item Type: Text

Summons for Isaac Mitchell

Summons for Isaac Mitchell to appear before the District Court judge in Washington County regarding petition of H. Chiairs and Samuel P. Baskins. Handwritten in ink.

Date: February 22, 1840

Item Type: Text

A composite gun made from various parts: blacksmith- made trigger guard; copper ramrod holders; wooden ramrod. Stamped on stock at butt: LEVYON MADE MC LAWS PLANTA. 1841; lockplate: GOLCHER; barrel: _____PHILAD___; possibly "slave made"

Date: 1841

Item Type: Physical Object

Mexico & Guatemala

Hand-colored engraving of Mexico and Guatemala showing towns, rivers, and topography

Date: 1842

Creator: Findlay, Alexander G.

Item Type: Map

"Amerique Septentrionale"

Hand-colored map of North America showing settlements, rivers, and mountains

Date: 1840

Item Type: Map

Lace collar

Black lace fichu sewn into mesh-like material; from Calais, Vermont, dating before 1840.

Date: [..1840]

Item Type: Physical Object

[Copy of land grant to George H. Bringhurst]

Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor Papers. Copy of land grant to George H. Bringhurst for one-third of a league of land in Harris County and about 28 miles northwest of Houston; granted by President Anson Jones

Date: October 10, 1845

Creator: Jones, Anson

Item Type: Text

"R.H. Leetch and Bros., Day Book, Brazos Santiago, Feby 24, 1849"

No Description Available.

Date: February 24, 1849

Item Type: Text

[Commission for Justice of the Peace]

Commission by A.C. Horton, Governor of Texas, appointing John H. Seward as Justice of the Peace for Washington County.

Date: October 8, 1846

Creator: Horton, Albert C.

Item Type: Text

Court Order

James B. Miller, administrator for the estate of William Barret Travis, ordered to collect $13.55 from James H. Holt by the County Court of Washington County

Date: July 1, 1847

Item Type: Text

Speech of Mr. Clayton of Delaware, Delivered at the Whig Mass Meeting Held in Wilmington on the 15th of June, 1844.

Front cover of the text of a speech concerning the tariff of 1842.

Date: 1844

Creator: Clayton, John M. (John Middleton), 1796-1856

Item Type: Text

General Jackson's Fine

First page of an editorial criticizing the conduct of Whig Party in regard to public printing.

Date: January 31, 1843

Creator: Pearce, Mr.

Item Type: Text

The Public Lands

First page of a tract that is part of a series; this one addresses public lands."

Date: May 1844

Creator: Junius

Item Type: Text

Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, on the Effect of the Tariff of 1842; on the Agricultural and Other Interest of the West.

Front cover of a letter compiled by a Democratic Convention committee.

Date: 1845

Creator: Democratic Convention

Item Type: Text

"Message from the President of the United States in Reply to a resolution of the Senate of the 19th December, 1844, requesting information in relation to various treaty stipulations between Texas and other independent Powers"

28th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Doc.

Date: January 7, 1845

Item Type: Text

America

Map of the western hemisphere; it is a hand-colored engraving showing settlements and topography. Countries are outlined in various colors.

Date: 1844

Creator: Arrowsmith, J.

Item Type: Map

Description of Oregon and California, embracing An Account of The Gold Regions; to which is added, An Appendix, containing descriptions of various kinds of gold, and methods of testing its genuineness.

Front cover and spine of the folio, and front cover and title page of a text containing a hand-colored, engraved pocket map of the western half of the United States showing roads, settlements, and rivers with "explanation" in lower left corner.

Date: 1849

Item Type: Artwork

Dress

Embroidered baby dress with some open work made by Mrs. Anson Jones for her son, Cromwell Anson Jones, b.1849, Barrington

Date: 1849

Item Type: Physical Object

[Enlistees of F Company, 1st Regiment of Infantry, Texas Army]

Listing of soldiers who received bounties from Captain J.B.P. January for enlisting in F Company of the First Regiment of Infantry, Texas Army. January led the company as part of Colonel Edward Burleson's 1839-40 campaign against Comanches in northwestern Texas.

Date: [1840-01-28..]

Creator: January, J. B. P.

Item Type: Text

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Title of Land to John Adkinson

Map of Texas and the Country Adjacent

Spillholders

Campaign ribbon

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of Messrs. Butler and Lewis relative to the Indians of Texas and the southwestern prairies

"Sweets for the Leisure Hours, or Flowers of Instruction"

Summons for Isaac Mitchell

Percussion shotgun

Mexico & Guatemala

"Amerique Septentrionale"

Lace collar

[Copy of land grant to George H. Bringhurst]

"R.H. Leetch and Bros., Day Book, Brazos Santiago, Feby 24, 1849"

[Commission for Justice of the Peace]

Court Order

Speech of Mr. Clayton of Delaware, Delivered at the Whig Mass Meeting Held in Wilmington on the 15th of June, 1844.

General Jackson's Fine

The Public Lands

Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, on the Effect of the Tariff of 1842; on the Agricultural and Other Interest of the West.

"Message from the President of the United States in Reply to a resolution of the Senate of the 19th December, 1844, requesting information in relation to various treaty stipulations between Texas and other independent Powers"

America

Description of Oregon and California, embracing An Account of The Gold Regions; to which is added, An Appendix, containing descriptions of various kinds of gold, and methods of testing its genuineness.

Dress

[Enlistees of F Company, 1st Regiment of Infantry, Texas Army]