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Title
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Land in the Nashville Company
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Identifier
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foth_0103
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Creator
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Robertson, Sterling C. (Sterling Clark), 1785-1842, Nashville Company
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Dates
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1834
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Description
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After receiving his empresario contract for the Nashville Colony, Sterling C. Robertson issued this broadside encouraging settlement in the colony. The broadside includes transcriptions of Robertson's claims to the colony prior to his receiving the contract.
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Title
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Laws
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Identifier
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foth_0204_multipage
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Dates
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1834-04-19
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Description
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This decree divided the state of Coahuila and Texas into seven departments. Three of the seven were in Texas: Bexar, Brazos, and Nacogdoches.
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Title
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Meeting in Washington
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Identifier
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foth_0258
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Creator
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Columbia. Committee of Safety
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Dates
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1835-10-15
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Description
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Broadside documenting a Committee of Safety meeting held in Washington on October 15, 1835.
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Title
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Milam's Colony
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Identifier
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foth_0112
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Creator
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Williamson, Robert M.
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Dates
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1834
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Description
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Robert M. Williamson, agent of Benjamin R. Milam, issued this announcement encouraging those with claims to land within Milam's grant to seek their title from the newly assigned commissioner.
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Title
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Nacogdoches Citizens Public Meetings
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Identifier
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foth_0259
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Dates
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1835-12
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Description
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Broadside reporting on a public meeting held in Nacogdoches on December 15, 1835.
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Title
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Pilotage Regulations, Custom House
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Identifier
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foth_0425
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Dates
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1841-09-18
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Description
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This broadside announces the Texas Congress's actions to make the port collectors responsible for the control of pilots in each port.
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Title
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The Present Political Relations of the United States and the Republic of Texas. Natchez Daily Courier
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Identifier
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foth_0264
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Dates
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1836-09-27
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Description
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A pro-Texas article printed on September 27, 1836, in the Natchez Daily Courier.
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Title
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Proclamation of Sam Houston, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Texas
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Identifier
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foth_0261
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Creator
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Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.
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Dates
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1835-12-12
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Description
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Sam Houston's call for volunteers made on December 12, 1835, at Washington, Texas.
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Title
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Rio Grande and Texas Land Company
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Identifier
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foth_0113
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Creator
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Rio Grande and Texas Land Company
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Dates
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1834
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Description
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The Rio Grande and Texas Land Company issued certificates indicating the right to locate in what had been Beale's River Grant and the Woodbury Grant.
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Title
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State of Louisiana, City of New Orleans
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Identifier
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foth_0542_multipage
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Dates
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1836
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Description
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Text of an agreement for a $200,000, 8 percent loan to the people of Texas negotiated by Stephen F. Austin, William Branch Archer, and William Wharton.
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Title
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Texan Universal Pills
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Identifier
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foth_0420
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Creator
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Gilman, James B.
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Dates
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1838
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Description
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Houston broadside advertising a patent medicine prepared with a "particular adaption" to the climate in the Republic of Texas. Mr. Gilman urged citizens to take these purgatives for relief of the symptoms of "Bilious Fever, Congestive Fever, Yellow Fever [and] Cholera."
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Title
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TEXAS!!
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Identifier
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foth_0390
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Dates
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1836-04-23
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Description
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Broadside printed in New Orleans on April 23, 1836. The Texas Revolution provided an impetus to further colonization by Anglo-Americans. The appeal to glory coupled with generous land offers proved irresistible to many.
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Title
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Texas Forever!
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Identifier
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foth_0329
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Dates
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1836
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Description
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This is the only known copy of an inflammatory circular that demonized the Mexican army and offered substantial inducements of land to all who would come to the aid the Texan cause. The broadside contains a brief account of the Alamo siege, the outcome of which was still unknown at the time this circular was issued.
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Title
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The Texas Volunteers, Tune "Auld Lang Syne"
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Identifier
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foth_0260
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Creator
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Texas Volunteers
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Dates
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1835-11-01
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Description
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Broadside printed in Nacogdoches, Texas, on November 1, 1835.
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Title
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To his colonists
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Identifier
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foth_0434
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Creator
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Castro, Henri, 1786-1865
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Description
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People from the Alsace region of France (on the border between France and Germany) settled Castroville in the Hill Country west of San Antonio. Their empresario, Henri Castro, wrote this broadside letter to his settlers advising caution in dealing with land speculators.
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Title
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To the Voters of the County of Austin
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Identifier
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foth_0569
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Dates
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1836
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Description
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Moseley Baker declares his candidacy for the first Congress of the Republic of Texas. In this broadside, Baker states his support for the annexation of Texas by the United States.
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Title
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Unanimous Declaration of Independence by the Delegates of the People of Texas, in General Convention at the town of Washington
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Identifier
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foth_0267
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Creator
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Texas. Constitutional Convention (1836)
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Dates
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1836-03-02
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Description
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The Texas Declaration of Independence is the outstanding state paper in Texas history. At the foot of the broadside are the names of all the delegates present, with the exception of George C. Childress and Sterling C. Robertson, of Milam. Gail and Thomas H. Borden, the printers of the broadside, later apologized for the omissions, stating that the document was printed "in too much haste, and chiefly in the night."
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Title
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Viva El Imvicto Gral Santa Anna
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Identifier
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foth_0589_multipage
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Dates
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1832