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Map of Texas with Parts of the Adjoining States.

Description: Map of Texas and parts of Mexico, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma (Indian Territory), showing land grants, property lines, and ownership. The map also includes towns, forts, rivers, creeks, and areas of elevations. Includes notes on various geological features as well as a note written and signed by the General Land Office Commissioner, complete with an official General Land Office seal. Relief shown in hachures.
Date: 1837
Creator: Austin, Stephen F.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of Texas shewing [sic.] the grants in possession of the Colorado & Red River Land Compy.

Description: Map shows settlements, major roads, mining activity, former and contemporary land empresarios and companies and their boundaries; overlapping boundaries for Mexican states of Coahuila and Tamaulipas; adjacent Missouri Territory, Arkansas Territory, and Louisiana. Includes population statistics, acreage, and notes. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:2,740,000].
Date: 1835
Creator: Colorado and Red River Land Company
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama constructed from the latest authorities.

Description: Map shows early nineteenth century Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama counties or parishes, swamps, roads, cities, towns, areas of Native American habitation, and notable physical features. Includes "statistical table." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:1,800,000].
Date: 1832
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Transcript of Letter from J. P Borden to Gail and J. P . Borden, October 25, 1834]

Description: Copy of transcript for a letter from J. P Borden to Gail Borden and J. P. Borden, in which Borden provides updates to his father and brother regarding his travels from Goliad to Bexar. Borden reports on his company, the conditions of the road, housing construction, and the natural landscape.
Date: October 25, 1834
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Transcript of Letter from Joseph Rosati to James Perry, July 29, 1830]

Description: Copy of transcript for a letter from Joseph Rosati to James Perry, on July 29, 1830, informing him that he must prove that his mother- and father-in-law were Catholics before their bodies can be buried in the St. Genevieve graveyard. Rosati suggests that they instead be placed in the Protestant cemetery of the same town.
Date: July 29, 1830
Creator: Rosati, Joseph
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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