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A variety of land grant certificates.
1- 1879 copy of an 1845 land grant from the Republic of Texas, granting Burrell Perry one labor of land in Fannin County
2- 1879 copy of an 1862 grant from the State of Texas to Hiram E. Hays for 160 acres in Collin County
3- 1862 land grant from the State of Texas to the Southern Pacific Rail Road Company for 640 acres in Concho County.

A commonplace book used by Violet Alice Haynes Bowles (1873-1953), in which she recorded poetry, correspondence, genealogical research, and other notes. Much of the contents reflects her views as a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy.

Credential certificates of Reverend John Shackleford Gillett (1838-1910), West Texas Conference.

Typed manuscript by R.L. Cartwright, "The Earliest American History of Texas," 1931.

Two receipts for taxes collected in Boerne, Texas, in 1912 and 1918.

Typescript copy of original manuscript memoirs by John Beldon Billingsley (1830-1904).

Typescript manuscript of the Autobiography of Andrew Davis (1827-1906).

"The Saga of Our Ancestry: Being a Series of Sketches o the Lives of Pioneer Texans, Written for the Information and Pleasure of their Descendants by Maud Boyce Farrar, Waxahachie, Texas, 1934."

Contents:

1. Rebecca Horton Boyce
2. Mahaly, the slave woman
3. Little Dog Penny
4. The Aldredge Family
5. Elizabeth Aldredge Boyce
6. W.A. Boyce
7. Nancy Owen Smith
8. Hans Smith
9. Lelia Smith Farrar
10. Education of Her Children
11. S.B. Farrar
12. Genealogical Tables

Contracts between James Hamilton, Elizabeth Hamilton, and Abner Jackson regarding the Retrieve Plantation on Oyster Creek in Brazoria County, which was owned by the Hamiltons and Jackson.

Bill of sale for an enslaved person, named Tom, sold by Joseph Megginson to Jeremiah Smith in Galveston, Texas.