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[Transcript of Letter from James F. Perry to Capt. Bartlet Sims, May 6, 1847]

Description: Copy of transcript for a letter from James F. Perry to Capt. Bartlet Sims, in which Perry offers to sell the land that Sims currently lives on to him for one dollar per acre - to be paid in part with negro slaves at cash price and in part in cash. Perry also informs Sims that the court case involving the land in question has not been decided upon.
Date: May 6, 1847
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Colquitt Spoon

Description: Actual spoon belonging to Alice M. Colquitt, wife of Robert K. Colquitt. They had a large ranch in Presidio County. "A.M. Colquitt" is engraved on the back of the handle. 1847 Roger Bros. 12 stamped on the back of the handle as well.
Date: 1847
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Stromgebiet von Nordamerica

Description: This map shows North and Central America and the surrounding areas. Several large regions are outlined in various colors and labeled. Bodies of water are marked and labeled (with relief shown by spot heights). There is a table at the bottom of the map giving the lengths of the Mississippi-Missouri, Mackenzie, Rio del Norte, Saskatchewan, Columbia, Ohio, and Colorado rivers in German miles. Scale [ca. 1:31,680,000].
Date: 1847
Creator: Radefeld, Carl Christian Franz, 1788-1874
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Méjico : segun lo organizado y definido por las varias actas del congreso de dicha républica y construido por las mejores autoridades.

Description: Map shows the United States southwest of Georgia and Iowa, and south of Oregon Territory. Includes distance and statistical tables, profiles of the route between Mexico and Vera Cruz and the route between Mexico and Acapulco. Notes within map describe historical events, including those of the Mexican War. Insets: "Carta de los caminos &c. desde Vera Cruz y Alvarado a Méjico," "Map showing the battlegrounds of the 8th and the 9th, May 1846," "Plan of Monterey and its environs," "Chart of the Bay… more
Date: 1847
Creator: Disturnell, John, 1801-1877
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Méjico : segun lo organizado y definido por las varias actas del congreso de dicha républica y construido por las mejores autoridades.

Description: Map shows the United States southwest of Georgia and Iowa, and south of Oregon Territory. Includes distance and statistical tables, profiles of the route between Mexico and Vera Cruz and the route between Mexico and Acapulco. Notes within map describe historical events, including those of the Mexican War. Insets: "Carta de los caminos &c. desde Vera Cruz y Alvarado a Méjico," "Map showing the battlegrounds of the 8th and the 9th, May 1846," "Plan of Monterey and its environs," "Chart of the Bay… more
Date: 1847
Creator: Disturnell, John, 1801-1877
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Court Order

Description: 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: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
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