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Title: Map of Texas by Stephen F. Austin
Identifier: foth_0630
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1829
Folder: SA 64
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
Box: 2b180
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
Box: 4zc169
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
Box: 2f6
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
Box: 2j457
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: Meeting in Washington
Identifier: foth_0258
Creator: Columbia. Committee of Safety
Dates: 1835-10-15
Box: BC DB 1835
Description: Broadside documenting a Committee of Safety meeting held in Washington on October 15, 1835.

Title: Memorandum of a Conference between Texas, France, and Great Britain
Identifier: foth_0570_multipage
Dates: 1845-03-29
Box: 2.0E+272
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
Box: 2a153
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.

Title: Memorial to the General Congress of the United Mexican States [english]
Identifier: foth_0225_multipage
Dates: 1833-04-13
Box: 3n176
Description: The Convention of 1833 met at San Felipe de Austin in April 1833. Among other things, the convention petitioned for the separation of Coahuila and Texas into two separate states, and prepared a constitution for the state of Texas. The convention appointed a committee to write a memorial to the Mexican government outlining the virtues of the new state organization and constitution. Stephen F. Austin traveled to Mexico City to present the memorial to the Mexican government.

Title: Milam's Colony
Identifier: foth_0112
Creator: Williamson, Robert M.
Dates: 1834
Box: BC DB 1833-1834
Description: 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.

Title: Mirabeau B. Lamar
Identifier: foth_0479
Description: Mirabeau Lamar had grand visions for Texas, including public lands earmarked for public education. A congressional act of 1839 set aside lands for public schools and universities.

Title: More particulars respecting the Fall of the Alamo
Identifier: foth_0330_multipage
Dates: 1836-03-24
Description: This early Texas newspaper attempted to piece together the details of the Alamo drama from various sources. Its glowing praise of the fallen defenders gave voice to the first legends to arise from the battle.

Title: Nacogdoches Citizens Public Meetings
Identifier: foth_0259
Dates: 1835-12
Box: BC 1835
Description: Broadside reporting on a public meeting held in Nacogdoches on December 15, 1835.

Title: Neu-Braunfels lithograph
Identifier: foth_0433
Description: German immigrants, led by Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels, established New Braunfels in 1845, on the banks of Comal Creek.

Title: New Map of Texas with Contiguous American and Mexican States
Identifier: foth_0647
Creator: Young, J.H. (James Hamilton)
Dates: 1837
Folder: 4
Description: Map by cartographer J. H. Young delineates land grants and includes an explanatory inset with empresarios and their grants.

Title: Noah Smithwick's observations regarding Stephen F. Austin
Identifier: foth_0021
Creator: Smithwick, Noah, 1808-1899
Box: 2g267
Description: Noah Smithwick, author of The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days, noted these observations of Stephen F. Austin. Smithwick arrived in Texas in 1827 and spent time in Austin's colony before being banished from it in 1830 due to Smithwick's aiding the escape of a friend accused of killing an alcalde.