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[Costumed Men and Women Posing for Portrait]

Photograph of a group of costumed men and women posing for a portrait. Four women stand behind two men and a woman sitting in chairs decorated with spirals. Two more men recline on the ground in the foreground. The men are wearing dark clothes with fringe and frills. The people are identified on the reverse side of the photo.

Date: [1845..1890]

Creator: W. J. Blair Portraits

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Journal of Henry Maxwell]

Journal of Henry Maxwell containing lists of his financial and trade transactions, the items traded, and the persons involved. It is bound in leather.

Date: 1851

Creator: Maxwell, Henry

Item Type: Book

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Peters' Colony Flyer]

Flyer from the Texan Emigration and Land Company addressing a raid of its offices that occurred in July of 1852. The flyer attempts to assuage the colonists' fears that the company plans to invalidate their claims. It also condemns the raiders who stole the colonists' claim paperwork.

Date: 1852

Creator: Texan Emigration and Land Company

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Journal of Henry Maxwell]

Journal of Henry Maxwell containing daily activities and accounts.

Date: 1853

Creator: Maxwell, Henry

Item Type: Book

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Bond from Joel Patterson to Henry Maxwell, April 3, 1856]

Bond in which Joel Patterson sells 320 acres of land to Henry Maxwell for five hundred dollars. The borders of the property are described.

Date: March 31, 1853

Creator: Patterson, Joel

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Deed from Richard Sparks to Henry Maxwell, April 3, 1856]

Deed in which Richard Sparks sells property to Henry Maxwell for one hundred dollars. The borders of the property are described.

Date: July 25, 1853

Creator: Sparks, Richard

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Bond from Hannah Maxwell to Henry Maxwell, December 24, 1853]

Bond wherein Hannah Maxwell states that she owes Henry Maxwell twenty five dollars. She also writes that she has sold ten and a half acres of headright land to Henry for six dollars and fifty-eight sense. The paper has been stamped with a five-pointed star and notarized by George Pegues.

Date: December 24, 1853

Creator: Maxwell, Hannah

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Letter from A. Walker to Henry Maxwell, August 18, 1854]

Letter from A. Walker to Henry Maxwell responding to an earlier letter regarding a 640 acre parcel of land.

Date: August 18, 1854

Creator: Walker, A.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Deed from Joel Patterson to Henry Maxwell, 1855]

Deed from George Pegues on behalf of Joel Patterson to Henry Maxwell. The deed issues 320 acres of land in Collin County to Maxwell for the price of $320.

Date: 1855

Creator: Pegues, George H.

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Land Division Between Heirs of James Maxwell, January 27, 1855]

Land division document in which the wife and descendants of James Maxwell are given parts of his property.

Date: January 27, 1855

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Journal of Henry Maxwell]

Journal of Henry Maxwell containing daily activities and accounts.

Date: November 1855

Creator: Maxwell, Henry

Item Type: Book

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Journal of Robert Strain Maxwell]

Journal of Robert Strain Maxwell containing daily activities and accounts.

Date: November 1855

Creator: Maxwell, Robert Strain

Item Type: Book

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Deed from William Patterson to Henry Maxwell, April 3, 1856]

Deed in which William Patterson sells property to Henry Maxwell for ten dollars. The borders of the property are described.

Date: April 3, 1856

Creator: Patterson, William

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Texas Land Grant to the Heirs of James Maxwell, June 17, 1856]

Land grant conferring four hundred and forty seven acres of land from Peters' Colony in Collin County, Texas, to the heirs of James Maxwell. The grant includes a description of the area's borders. It is signed by Governor Elisha M. Pease.

Date: June 17, 1856

Creator: Texas. General Land Office.

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Deed Distributing Land of J. W. Maxwell Among His Heirs]

Deed distributing 193 acres of land in Collin County, Texas, to the heirs of J. W. Maxwell.

Date: October 31, 1857

Creator: Pegues, George H.

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Deed from Hannah Maxwell to Henry Maxwell, March 6, 1858]

Deed in which Hannah Maxwell transfers ten and one-half acres of land to Henry Maxwell for ten dollars. The borders are described in the text.

Date: March 6, 1858

Creator: Maxwell, Hannah

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Deed from Henry Maxwell and Others to Hannah Maxwell, March 6, 1858]

Deed in which Hannah Maxwell equally distributes of 447 and 193 acres of land left by her late husband to his descendants.

Date: March 6, 1858

Creator: Maxwell, Hannah

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Deed from Richard Sparks to henry Maxwell, March 6, 1858]

Deed in which Richard Sparks sells forty acres to Henry Maxwell for ten dollars. The borders of the property are described.

Date: March 6, 1858

Creator: Sparks, Richard

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Promissory Note Claim from Henry Maxwell Against Martin Harrick, February 21, 1863]

Promissory note claim from Henry Maxwell against Martin Harrick for $300 plus three years of twelve percent interest. The original agreement between Maxwell and Harrick is pasted onto the top of the letter describing the claim.

Date: October 31, 1860

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Bond from John Pugh to Henry Maxwell, 1861]

Bond describing a debt owed by John Pugh, Edward Pugh, John Wood, and Elizabeth Pugh, to Henry Maxwell in the amount of $1,015 and due by March 1, 1861.

Date: November 14, 1860

Creator: Pugh, John H.

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Journal of Henry Maxwell]

Journal of Robert Strain Maxwell containing daily activities and accounts.

Date: January 1, 1861

Creator: Maxwell, Henry

Item Type: Book

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Tax Receipt for Henry Maxwell, May 2, 1861]

Receipt for taxes received from Henry Maxwell in the sum of twenty dollars and sixteen cents.

Date: May 2, 1861

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Henry Maxwell Granting J. W. Maxwell Power of Attorney]

Text of Henry Maxwell granting J. W. Maxwell power of attorney in order to act as an agent to purchase land.

Date: June 20, 1862

Creator: Maxwell, Henry

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

[Journal of Henry Maxwell]

Journal of Henry Maxwell containing daily activities and accounts. A newspaper clipping with a poem is included.

Date: January 1864

Creator: Maxwell, Henry

Item Type: Book

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

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[Bond from Hannah Maxwell to Henry Maxwell, December 24, 1853]

[Letter from A. Walker to Henry Maxwell, August 18, 1854]

[Deed from Joel Patterson to Henry Maxwell, 1855]

[Land Division Between Heirs of James Maxwell, January 27, 1855]

[Journal of Henry Maxwell]

[Journal of Robert Strain Maxwell]

[Deed from William Patterson to Henry Maxwell, April 3, 1856]

[Texas Land Grant to the Heirs of James Maxwell, June 17, 1856]

[Deed Distributing Land of J. W. Maxwell Among His Heirs]

[Deed from Hannah Maxwell to Henry Maxwell, March 6, 1858]

[Deed from Henry Maxwell and Others to Hannah Maxwell, March 6, 1858]

[Deed from Richard Sparks to henry Maxwell, March 6, 1858]

[Promissory Note Claim from Henry Maxwell Against Martin Harrick, February 21, 1863]

[Bond from John Pugh to Henry Maxwell, 1861]

[Journal of Henry Maxwell]

[Tax Receipt for Henry Maxwell, May 2, 1861]

[Henry Maxwell Granting J. W. Maxwell Power of Attorney]

[Journal of Henry Maxwell]