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Title: Letter from John Joseph Linn
Identifier: foth_0386_multipage
Creator: Linn, John J. (John Joseph), 1798-1885
Dates: 1836-04-28
Description: During the Revolution, John Joseph Linn served with General Sam Houston, who sent Linn to Galveston for supplies. With supplies in tow, Linn returned to the mainland and found Houston at San Jacinto after the capture of Santa Anna. Linn sent this letter to a merchant in New Orleans and reports of his conversation with General Santa Anna after the Texan defeat of Santa Anna's army.

Title: A List of Titles Made Under the Special Contract with the State of Coahuila and Texas by Stephen F. Austin 1828 to Settle 300 Families within the Ten Border Leagues on the Gulf of Mexico
Identifier: foth_0641_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1833
Description: Title page of the List; Ledger recording the first settlers in Austin's original colony. Those settlers, the first Americans to settle in Texas legally, are known today as the Old Three Hundred. Austin's original plan for land distribution was superseded by a colonization law in 1823 by which each family received not less than one labor (177 acres) or one league (4428 acres) of land depending on whether the head of household was a farmer or stockman. Commissioner Baron de Bastrop issued the lands and titles to settlers designated by Austin. The three hundred families were nearly all in Texas by 1824, and the work of issuing the titles continued until 1827. One of the premier documents of Texas history, Austin's ledger lists the name of the settler and designates the location and quantities of land and the date of title.

Title: Lorenzo de Zavala to his son
Identifier: foth_0399_multipage
Creator: Zavala, Lorenzo de 1788-1836
Dates: 1836-05-28
Description: Lorenzo de Zavala reports to his son that he has agreed to escort Antonio López de Santa Anna from Texas to Vera Cruz, Mexico.

Title: Lorenzo de Zavala to Manuel de Mier y Terán
Identifier: foth_0196_multipage
Creator: Zavala, Lorenzo de 1788-1836
Dates: 1829-06-24
Description: Lorenzo de Zavala expressed the same confidence that Mexican President Guerrero had for Mier y Terán in maintaining the frontiers.

Title: Manifest of Slaves
Identifier: foth_0547_multipage
Dates: 1838-04-16
Description: A ship's manifest from the Port of New Orleans to the Port of Galveston listing four slaves. Ashbel Smith, a medical doctor who had been surgeon general of the Republic of Texas, signed the manifest.

Title: Manifiesto que de sus operaciones en la campaña de Tejas y en su cautiverio dirige a sus concuidadanos
Identifier: foth_0401_multipage
Creator: Santa Anna, Antonio López de 1794-1876
Dates: 1837
Description: Following the loss of Texas and his release from captivity, Santa Anna published his own justification of the Texas campaign and of his conduct while being held prisoner.

Title: Map of Texas
Identifier: foth_0631_multipage
Creator: Galli, Fiorenzo
Dates: 1826
Description: Map of Texas surrounded by text

Title: Map of Texas by Stephen F. Austin
Identifier: foth_0630
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1829
Description: Austin's detailed hand-drawn map showing the Austin and DeWitt colonies, various towns and rivers, and other natural features in Texas. Austin prepared the map sometime between 1823 and 1828 and based the map on firsthand observations as well as information gathered from travelers and surveyors.

Title: Map of Texas With Parts of the Adjoining States
Identifier: foth_0634
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1835
Description: The 1835 edition of Austin's 1830 Map of Texas, the first map to show on a large scale the beginnings of immigration into Texas from the United States. This later edition depicts additional land grants and presents a section of text stating the number of families to be located on each grant shown on the map.

Title: A map of the country between the Brassos and La Baca Rivers
Identifier: foth_0178
Creator: Rightor, Nicholas
Dates: 1822
Description: Nicholas Rightor is considered the first American to survey the Texas coast and to produce a sketch of the central region of Austin's 1821 land grant. The map shows in some detail the land from the La Baca (Lavaca) to the Brazos, with various descriptions of the river and the country.

Title: Martin Van Buren to Joel Poinsett
Identifier: foth_0562
Creator: Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862
Dates: 1829-08-25
Description: President Martin Van Buren instructs Joel Poinsett to open negotiations with the Mexican government for the purchase of part of Texas.

Title: Mary Austin Holley Diary
Identifier: foth_0413_multipage
Creator: Holley, Mary Austin, 1784-1846
Dates: 1837
Description: Stephen F. Austin's cousin, Mary Austin Holley, drew this sketch of Peach Point Plantation, the home of Austin's sister Emily Austin Perry and her husband James Franklin Perry. Mrs. Holley visited Texas in 1831, 1835, and 1837 and kept this diary account during her latter two visits to Texas. The diary includes sketches of Texas scenes.

Title: Mary Maverick Diary
Identifier: foth_0504_multipage
Creator: Maverick, Mary Adams, 1818-1898
Dates: 1842
Description: Mary Ann Adams Maverick married Samuel Augustus Maverick in 1836 when he returned to Alabama from the battlefields of the Texas Revolution. They returned to Texas in 1837 and settled in San Antonio. In her diary, Mary Maverick recounts her husband's involvement with the Santa Fe Expedition and his time in a Mexico City prison as a result of the expedition.

Title: Mary Rabb diary
Identifier: foth_0121_multipage
Creator: Rabb, Mary Crownover, Mrs.
Dates: 1875
Description: Mary Crownover Rabb came to Texas in 1823 at age eighteen with her husband, infant, and about sixteen head of cattle. Mary recalled her trip and life in Austin's Colony in these reminiscences, written in 1875.

Title: Matty meeting the Texas Question
Identifier: foth_0561
Creator: Bucholzer, H.
Dates: 1844
Description: Political cartoon depicting Texas as the hag of slavery.

Title: Meeting in Washington
Identifier: foth_0258
Creator: Columbia. Committee of Safety
Dates: 1835-10-15
Description: Broadside documenting a Committee of Safety meeting held in Washington on October 15, 1835.

Title: Meeting minutes, February 13, 1897, Meeting minutes, February 13, 1897
Identifier: di_11137
Dates: 1897-02-13
Resource: Texas State Historical Association records
Description: Transcribed minutes from a meeting held on the University of Texas at Austin campus on February 13, 1897 to discuss the organization of a state historical association (page two of two)

Title: Meeting minutes, February 13, 1897, Meeting minutes, February 13, 1897
Identifier: di_11136
Dates: 1897-02-13
Resource: Texas State Historical Association records
Description: Transcribed minutes from a meeting held on the University of Texas at Austin campus on February 13, 1897 to discuss the organization of a state historical association (page one of two)

Title: Memorandum of a Conference between Texas, France, and Great Britain
Identifier: foth_0570_multipage
Dates: 1845-03-29
Description: Despite the Texas Congress's declaration for joining the United States, Secretary of State Ashbel Smith met with charges from France and Great Britain. The outcome of the meeting was this memorandum that called for President Anson Jones to delay all annexation proceedings and to seek recognition of Texas' independence.

Title: Memorial from Ayuntamiento of Brazoria to the Mexican Government for release of Stephen F. Austin
Identifier: foth_0032_multipage
Creator: Warton, William H., Waller, Edwin
Dates: 1834-07
Description: Memorial to the Mexican government from William H. Wharton and Edwin Waller sent in response to Austin's request that colonists petition for his release from prison.

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