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Autograph document signed

29 April 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

Adams & Co Bank note $208.69

GLC09234.13

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Autograph document signed

31 May 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

Adams & Co Bank note $270.06

GLC09234.14

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

30 June 1854

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

Adams & Co Bank note $300

GLC09234.15

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

January 29, 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

Adams & Co Bank note $347.50

GLC09234.16

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

30 May 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

Adams & Co Bank note $286.51

GLC09234.17

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

31 March 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

Adams & Co Bank note $297.74

GLC09234.18

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

29 December 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

Adams & Co Bank note $375

GLC09234.19

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

15 May 1854

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

Adams & Co Bank note $300

GLC09234.20

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

11 October 1854

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

Adams & Co Bank note $200

GLC09234.21

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

12 June 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

Adams & Co Bank note $400

GLC09234.22

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

February 14, 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

Adams & Co Bank note $200

GLC09234.23

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

6 July 1840

Ward, Thomas W., fl. 1842-1862

[Certifying land purchase]

Jas H. Starr DS Certifying land purchase of Edward C. Smithson, 7/6/1840. 2 p.

GLC02145.80.02

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Autograph document signed

21 July 1847

Ward, Thomas W., fl. 1842-1862

[Unaccompanied docket leaf]

Unaccompanied docket leaf for Sam Houston document re: land business. 7/21/1847. 1 p.

GLC02145.80.15

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Autograph letter signed

12 November 1860

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

to H. S. Abott

Agrees to lecture at New Rochelle next Wednesday. Two possible topics are "Western America" and "Great Men."

GLC05603.01.07

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Printed document signed

18 September 1856

Pease, Elisha M., 1812-1883

[Texas land grant to "the School Commissioners of Hunt County, and their Successors"]

Signed by Pease as governor and countersigned by J. Crosby (possibly Josiah Frazier Crosby), commissioner of the General Land Office. Partially printed grant of "One League" in "Cooke District, Wise and Cooke Counties," Texas. Specifies the precise...

GLC06623.17

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

5 August 1841

Roberts, Samuel A., 1809-1872

to B.C. Franklin

Discusses issues related to a land survey.

GLC06623.23

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Manuscript document signed

14 August 1835

Smyth, George Washington, 1803-1866

[Land survey instructions for Major Benjamin Tennel]

Provides instructions for Tennel to follow in exercising his duties as land surveyor. Broken down into nineteen articles specifying how Tennel should conduct his job.

GLC06624.05

Collection Item

Printed document

29 August 1787

Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823

[Report from a meeting of the directors and agents of the Ohio Company]

Discusses a contract stating the boundaries of a tract land in the Ohio valley region between the Board of Treasury and Manasseh Cutler. Also that another tract be reserved for a city and common land in the Ohio valley region. Noted that the...

GLC02437.03648

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Newspaper

1845/03/01

New York daily tribune. [Vol. 4, no. 280 (March 1 1845)]

resolution for annexing texas.

GLC08758

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Newspaper

1836/04/21

Newark daily advertiser. [Vol. 5, no. 38 (April 21, 1836)]

[government of Texas organized]

GLC08836

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Document signed

1825/10/15

Robertson, Felix Huston, 1839-1928

Leftwich grant of stock in Texas Association

Also signed by J.P. Erwin. Streeter 1087, locating only two copies.

GLC02402

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

1836/11/24

Archer, Branch Tanner, 1790-1856

[Texas land indenture from Branch T. Archer to Giles M. Stone]

Archer signs over to Stone the title for "one half of the land secured to me...by the annexed deed...by N.F. Smith." Witnessed by William Christy, Willis A Jarvis, and J.W. Moorly. The deed from Niles Smith appears on p. 2-3, and specifies the...

GLC06623.01

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

23 Febraruy 1889

Palmer, J.R., fl. 1889

to W. Croft

In compliance with Croft's request, encloses the "affidavits...as to value of lots proposed to be exchanged for the Collins farm" and a sworn statement on the prices he received for them when he sold them to Collins (none of the enclosed items...

GLC06623.28