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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: 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 to the General Congress of the United Mexican States [english]
Identifier: foth_0225_multipage
Dates: 1833-04-13
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.

Identifier: e_bx_001910
Contributor: Miller, Elizabeth Runkle
Topic: Spanish colonies, History--Sources
Dates: 1720-09-22
Resource: Bexar archives
Description: Translation of Santiago Liñan and Pedro Flores.

Identifier: e_bx_002784
Contributor: Cruz, Julia G., Flores, Patricia
Topic: Spanish colonies, History--Sources
Dates: 1778-11-02
Resource: Bexar archives
Description: Translation of certificate from Cabello that Manuel Leandro Martinez has enlisted in the Béxar company.

Identifier: e_bx_002783_001
Contributor: Cruz, Julia G., Flores, Patricia
Topic: Spanish colonies, History--Sources
Dates: 1778-11-02
Resource: Bexar archives
Description: Translation of a notation of the death of Andres de Sosa.

Title: Noah Smithwick's observations regarding Stephen F. Austin
Identifier: foth_0021
Creator: Smithwick, Noah, 1808-1899
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.

Title: Power & Hewetson Colony
Identifier: foth_0603_multipage
Dates: 1832-03-10

Title: President's address [draft]
Identifier: foth_0455_multipage
Creator: Burnet, David G. (David Gouverneur), 1788-1870
Dates: 1836-03
Description: Delivered by Burnet to the Constitutional Convention at Washington-on-the-Brazos, March 17, 1836. Burnet served in the ad interim government until elections could be held in the fall of 1836. In 1841 Burnet lost to Sam Houston in a presidential election.

Title: Proclamation
Identifier: foth_0179_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1824-05-01
Description: Austin's announcement to the members of his colony that the Mexican Congress had adopted a Federal Republican system of government and that the "hitherto enslaved Spanish Provinces are now free and independent States."

Title: A proclamation by the President of the Republic of Texas
Identifier: foth_0579
Creator: Jones, Anson, 1798-1858
Dates: 1845-06-06
Description: Mexico agreed to recognize Texas so long as Texas did not become part of the United States. President Anson Jones issued this proclamation ending hostilities with Mexico.

Title: Proclamation of First State Elections
Identifier: foth_0573_multipage
Creator: Jones, Anson, 1798-1858
Dates: 1845
Description: With annexation accepted and a state constitution ratified, President Anson Jones issues a proclamation calling the first election of state officials for December 15, 1845.

Title: Project [?] of a Consitution for the Republic of Mexico
Identifier: foth_0607_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1823-03-30
Description: Project [?] of a Consitution for the Republic of Mexico

Title: Public Notice
Identifier: camh-dob-021678
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Topic: Colonization
Dates: 1824-07-12
Resource: Austin papers
Description: Public notice for colonists of Texas to report.

Title: Public Notice
Identifier: camh-dob-021678
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Topic: Colonization
Dates: 1824-07-12
Resource: Austin papers
Description: Public notice for colonists of Texas to report.

Title: Register of Natchez Landings
Identifier: foth_0424
Dates: 1836-06-20
Description: Natchez, Mississippi, served as a port through which many traveled to Texas. On June 22, 1836, a boat from Louisville registered in Natchez as carrying 250 volunteers bound for Texas.

Title: Relación de los Gefes y oficiales que cayeron prisioneros en la acción de San Jacinto el 21 de Abril de 1836
Identifier: foth_0378_multipage
Topic: Battle of San Jacinto (Texas : 1836)
Dates: 1836-06-06
Description: Topping this official list of commanders, officers, and wounded taken prisoner at San Jacinto on April 21, 1836, were the "Most Excellent Señor President" [Santa Anna] and his generals Cós and Almonte.

Title: Report
Identifier: foth_0181_multipage
Creator: Mier y Teran, Manuel de
Dates: 1828
Description: "Noticias de las tribus de salvages conocidos que habitan en el Departamento de Tejas..." Mier y Terán prepared this report as part of Mexico's effort to establish an official boundary between the United States and Mexico. The report documents the Indian tribes who were known to inhabit Texas, with the number of families that composed each tribe, the area in which they lived, and the fields in which they camped.

Title: Resolution stating support for Mexican government by the District of Mina
Identifier: foth_0610_multipage
Dates: 1827-01-04
Description: Residents of the District of Mina in Austin's Colony resolve to support the government of Mexico and speak against the rebellion at Nacogdoches.

Title: Resolutions of Loyalty
Identifier: foth_0219_multipage
Creator: Battle, William M
Dates: 1827-01-06
Description: William M. Battle, alcalde for the district of San Felipe, issued a statement declaring the inhabitants of San Felipe to be "satisfied with the government of their adoption" and denouncing the insurgents at Nacogdoches.

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