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[Diary of Henry Matthews - 1806-1844]

Description: Henry Matthews (1799-18?) was a Methodist circuit rider, schoolteacher, and practicing physician from Ohio, who made his way from Ohio, through the Illinois Territory, to Texas. Primarily a circuit-riding preacher and schoolteacher in his early days in Ohio, Matthews practiced medicine more formally in the 1830s and 1840s in San Felipe, Texas, where Matthews and his wife Miranda eventually settled. Primarily a medical diary, this volume includes records of medical visits and attendance by Matth… more
Date: 1806-04-12/1844-05-17
Creator: Matthews, Henry
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Partner: Southwestern University

Ohio.

Description: Map shows [handwritten in ink with notes] the route taken by Herzogs Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach; counties, major cities and towns, military outposts, and Native American reserves. Includes descriptive text in left, right and lower panels: "Der Staat Ohio." Scale not given.
Date: 1825
Creator: Geographisches Institut (Weimar, Thuringia, Germany)
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

A map of the Western Reserve including the Fire Lands in Ohio, September 1826.

Description: Map shows counties, roads, and settlements in the Connecticut Western Reserve in present-day Ohio. Includes legend in lower margin: text detailing history of the Western Reserve - "Reference's, Court House's, Meeting House's, College's, Mill's, Light House's, Village's, County Lines, Roads, Falls." No scale given.
Date: 1826
Creator: Sumner, William
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Transcript of Letter from Peter Elias Bean to Antonio Elozua, October 22, 1830]

Description: Copy of transcript for a letter from Peter Elias Bean to Antonio Elozua, on October 22, 1830. Bean has discovered that the government is paying Indians to move west of the Mississippi River, and he wonders if the Indians will attempt to retake their lands in Texas.
Date: October 22, 1830
Creator: Bean, Peter Elias
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Map exhibiting the position of the several lines connected with the settlement of the Ohio boundary question.

Description: Map shows disputed boundaries between Michigan and Ohio in the area between Lake Michigan and Lake Erie; also boundaries between Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Ontario; towns, waterways, and major industries. Includes tables and text. Scale [ca. 1:316,800].
Date: 1835
Creator: Hood, Washington
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mitchell's travellers guide through the United States a map of the roads, distances, steam boat & canal routes.

Description: Map shows major roads, canals, cities and towns, for the eastern United States, the Arkansas, Missouri, and Wisconsin territories, and a portion of east Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. Includes "explanation." Scale [ca. 1:4,942,080]. Insets: "Vicinity of Cincinnati," "Vicinity of Albany," "Vicinity of New Orleans," "Vicinity of the Falls of Niagara," "Vicinity of Boston," "Vicinity of New York," "Vicinity of Philadelphia," "Vicinity of Baltimore and Washington," and "Vicinity of Charle… more
Date: 1836
Creator: Young, J. H. (James Hamilton)
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Transcript of Letter from Stephen F. Austin to David G. Burnet, June 10, 1836]

Description: Copy of transcript for a letter from Stephen F. Austin to David G. Burnet, on June 10, 1836, discussing the steps it is necessary to take before the United States government will recognize Texas as independent. He also briefly mentions the movement of troops from Kentucky.
Date: June 10, 1836
Creator: Austin, Stephen F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Transcript of Letter from George Fisher to Stephen F. Austin, December 1, 1836]

Description: Copy of transcript for a letter from George Fisher to Stephen F. Austin, on December 1, 1836, impressing upon him the necessity for a newspaper that is sympathetic to the Texan cause, and asking that Austin help to revive the Correo Atlántico in New Orleans.
Date: December 1, 1836
Creator: Fisher, George
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Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Map of the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois with the settled part of Michigan.

Description: Map shows counties, roads, railroads, canals, cities and towns for Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and parts of Michigan and Wisconsin Territory; mining activity for lead region of Illinois and Wisconsin Territory; township grid for lower Michigan. Insets: "Vicinity of Detroit," "Vicinity of Cincinnati," "Falls of Ohio," and "Lead region east of the Mississippi River." Includes explanation and table of steamboat routes. Scale [ca. 1:2,028,000].
Date: 1838
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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