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1833/04/29
Ogden, Thomas L.
New Arkansas & Texas Land Co. grant to Sylvester Davis (cos. Jackson & Curtis)
Numbered 3895. Cosigned by Daniel Jackson and Edward Curtis. Streeter, Texas Rev. 1138.1.
GLC02933
17 April 1846
De Cordova, Jacob (1808-1868)
[Receipt for $25 from W. Rhodes for surveying headright of James O. Rice]
Records the payment by De Cordova and James O. Rice to W. Rhodes, "administrator on the Estate of J.P. Kimball," for locating and surveying Rice's headright.
GLC02935
15 December 1835
McFarland, William (fl. 1835)
[Sale of land to Archibald Hotchkiss]
Sale of land document from John Davidson to Archibald Hotchkiss. Handwritten note in pencil on top of document: "Galveston Bay: Texas Land co. 450." Docket on verso.
GLC02938
1849/09/03
Lamar, Mirabeau B. (fl. 1839-1849)
Land grant [1840] to Levi Jones & Edward Hall of 18215 acres on Galveston Island
Certified copy signed by George W. Smyth as Land Office Commissioner.
GLC02939
24 June 1865
Augustin, D. (fl. 1865)
[Certificate of amnesty]
Signed by Augustin as a United States Commissioner for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Also signed by Emmanuel Lebreton Deschapelles, who swears an oath of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States following the Civil War. Deschapelles...
GLC02943.01
12 December 1838
Harrison, William Henry (1773-1841)
to John Brown Dillon
Harrison offers his opinion to Dillon, who is publishing a pamphlet on the subject of slavery: "our Union is a Union of Sovereign Independent States &... in every particular where power is not expressly surrendered by that instrument to the General...
GLC02946
26 June 1857
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
Speech of the Hon. Abram Lincoln, in reply to Judge Douglas.
Speech on the subjects of Kansas, the Dred Scott decision, and Utah. Delivered in Representatives' Hall, Springfield, Illinois, June 26th, 1857.
GLC02954
17 July 1858
Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, delivered in Springfield, Saturday evening, July 17, 1858.
Discusses the disadvantages faced by the Republican Party in the upcoming election. Traces the development of his attitudes toward slavery and equality, expressing his conviction that the southern slave power was engaged in a conspiracy to...
GLC02955
31 August 1814
Fonciu, John (fl. 1814)
[Provision of Fortifications indispensable to the defense of Philadelphia] [French]
Fonciu, a French officer who had lived in Philadelphia, was Jonathan Williams' chief assistant in the volunteer association of field engineers organized by Philadelphia's Committee of Defence.
GLC02978.05
18 September 1814
to Robert M. Patterson [French]
GLC02978.14
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