Bill of sale for an enslaved person, named Tom, sold by Joseph Megginson to Jeremiah Smith in Galveston, Texas.
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.
List of the crew of the Schooner Nancy, sailing from Edenton, North Carolina to Jamaica in 1805.
"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:
- Rebecca Horton Boyce
- Mahaly, the slave woman
- Little Dog Penny
- The Aldredge Family
- Elizabeth Aldredge Boyce
- W.A. Boyce
- Nancy Owen Smith
- Hans Smith
- Lelia Smith Farrar
- Education of Her Children
- S.B. Farrar
- Genealogical Tables
Typescript manuscript of the Autobiography of Andrew Davis (1827-1906).
Typescript copy of original manuscript memoirs by John Beldon Billingsley (1830-1904).
Two receipts for taxes collected in Boerne, Texas, in 1912 and 1918.
Typed manuscript by R.L. Cartwright, "The Earliest American History of Texas," 1931.
Credential certificates of Reverend John Shackleford Gillett (1838-1910), West Texas Conference.
Some of the sermons are clearly dated, and the dating of others is estimated by the dates of the materials surrounding them, as originally found. The sermons organized by bible book are most likely from the 1940s and 1950s, and utilize a sermon organizational system that was later abandoned. Box 35: Folder 1-13; Box 36: Folder 14-30; Box 37: Folder 31-45; Box 38: Folders 46-58