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Bill of Sale (Tom)
US TxSaT SC.000-001 · Folder · 1850
Part of Miscellaneous Manuscripts

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

Retrieve Plantation Contract
US TxSaT SC.000-002 · Folder · 1855-1856
Part of Miscellaneous Manuscripts

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.

Maud Boyce Farrar memoirs
US TxSaT SC.000-004 · Folder · 1934
Part of Miscellaneous Manuscripts

"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
US TxSaT SC.001-05-01 · Subseries
Part of Claude and ZerNona Black Papers, 1890-2009

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