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[Emancipation Claim for Slaves of James Buchanan]

Description: Legal document from James Buchanan expressing a claim for Emancipation of his slaves. The following sections of text include the dealings within the county courts of Mercer and April within the Commonwealth of Kentucky, where his claim for emancipation was acknowledged and ordered to be recorded.
Date: November 29, 1834
Creator: Buchanan, James M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Two Rivers Historical Foundation

Colorado and Red River Land Company [maps].

Description: Map shows overview of Colorado & Red River Land Company's holdings along the Red River in smaller map; boundaries for holdings, towns, roads, and rivers for holdings and adjacent land grants along Colorado River. Includes text with original signatures.
Date: 1835
Creator: Colorado and Red River Land Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Harrison County.

Description: Map shows land tracts by number and some by owner, "Trammel's Trace," "Cherokee Trace," "Lilleys Line" between Texas and the United States, waterways including the Sabine River, "Lake Soda," ferries and river crossings; adjacent Red River, Shelby, and Nacogdoches counties. Scale not given.
Date: [1835..1935]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Map of surveys] situated south of the Sabine River.

Description: Map shows tract numbers, volume of land per tract, Leons and Hogans bayous, roads, and landowners; large portions held by George Antonio Nixon and Haden Eduards; smaller portions held by M.A. Romero, E. Bradly, John Caughan, and I. Johnston [?]. Scale not given.
Date: 1835
Creator: Roark, William, 1803-1862
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington 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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

North America.

Description: Map shows North America as known during the early nineteenth century. Some areas of note are: Native American habitation, "Austin's colony" in Texas, the 1825 British-Russian boundary line, and B[ay] of Sir Francis Drake [San Francisco Bay]. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [1:35,000,000].
Date: 1835
Creator: Bradford, T. G. (Thomas Gamaliel), 1802-1887
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Enrique Rueg March 21st, 1835

Description: Transcribing a communication with the governor's decision to the memorial of the citizens complaining against the conduct pursued by Commissioner John Nixon and the agent of the impresarios.
Date: March 21, 1835
Creator: Rueg, Enrique
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Texas State Library and Archives Commission
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