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Title: Annexation of Texas
Identifier: foth_0549
Dates: 1837
Description: In the 25th Congress of the United States House of Representatives, 3,029 Massachusetts women signed a petition against the annexation of Texas into the United States as a slaveholding state.

Title: Brigade Orders
Identifier: foth_0488
Creator: Texas. Army
Dates: 1838
Description: This broadside calls for volunteers to fight Indians on the northeastern frontier.

Title: Certificate of shares
Identifier: foth_0544
Dates: 1839-12
Description: The Consolidated Fund was established June 7, 1837, to help finance public debt.

Title: Circular from the Committee of Safety of the Jurisdiction of Austin
Identifier: foth_0257
Creator: San Felipe de Austin. Committee of Safety
Dates: 1835-10-03
Description: Circular from the Committee of Safety of the Jurisdiction of Austin, dated October 3, 1835, reporting the advancing Mexican troops from Béxar.

Title: Citizens of Texas
Identifier: foth_0477
Dates: 1841
Description: Ballot for the Republic of Texas presidency. Sam Houston defeated David G. Burnet in the election.

Title: The Citizens of the jurisdiction of Columbia--to their Fellow Citizens of all Texas
Identifier: foth_0255_multipage
Creator: Columbia. Committee of Safety
Dates: 1835-08-20
Description: The citizens of the jurisdiction of Columbia issued this broadside on August 20, 1835, calling for a consultation to convene at Washington-on-the-Brazos on October 15, 1835.

Title: Civil Commandant of the Colony forming on the Colorado and Brassos Rivers, in the Province of Texas . . .
Identifier: foth_0022
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1821
Description: Upon returning to New Orleans after an initial survey of Texas in the summer of 1821, Stephen F. Austin issued this permit stating the terms under which Austin would admit settlers to the colony. The formal procedure for an immigrant seeking admission to Austin's Colony required that he present himself to Austin upon arrival, register his name, and take an oath to support the federal and state constitutions. He thus became an applicant and was given a permit to select land. The settler then was required to give notice of his choice of land within thirty days and to petition for the land. Instructions were then issued to the surveyor to survey and plat the land and, upon payment of fees, the commissioner issued the title.

Title: Colonization grant to property in Castro Colony
Identifier: foth_0450_multipage
Dates: 1843
Description: Printed in French script, stamped "Texas Legation, Paris," and signed by Ashbel Smith, this document is an example of a property certificate issued to colonists of Henri Castro's Texas settlement.

Title: Columbia citizens
Identifier: foth_0254
Dates: 1835-08
Description: Resolutions adopted at a meeting held in Columbia on August 15, 1835. Columbia was one of the earliest communities within Stephen F. Austin's colony.

Title: Decreto de 6 de Abril de 1830 [Law of April 6, 1830]
Identifier: foth_0202_multipage
Creator: Republic of Mexico
Dates: 1830-04-06
Description: Mexican colonization law prohibiting further emigration from nations bordering on the Mexican Republic, designed specifically to stop the flood of emigrants from the United States to Texas.

Title: Dinner to Colonel Austin
Identifier: foth_0253
Dates: 1835
Description: The text of Austin's speech to the citizens of Brazoria given at a dinner in his honor on September 8. Austin landed in Velasco on September 1, 1835, after more than two years in Mexico. In his speech a week later, Austin called for a convention to protest the centralist Mexican government's abrogation of the Constitution of 1824. He ended his address with this toast: "The Constitutional rights and the security of peace of Texas, they ought to be maintained, and jeopardized as they now are, they demand a general consultation of the people."

Title: Domínguez’ Grant
Identifier: foth_0120
Dates: 1831
Description: This certificate was issued to a New Yorker for one sitio of land within the Domínguez colony.

Title: Fall of Bejar and Surrender of General Cós
Identifier: foth_0307_multipage
Dates: 1835-12-14
Description: General Martín Perfecto de Cós and his 1,200 soldiers were entrenched in San Antonio. Three hundred men volunteered to go with Ben Milam into San Antonio to attack. Cós herded his soldiers into the Alamo and surrendered on December 11.

Title: Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company
Identifier: foth_0111
Creator: Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company
Dates: 1830-10-16
Description: A blank certificate issued by the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, which, when executed, would entitle the person named to one labor. The company's lands, shown at the bottom of the document, consisted of the grants issued to David G. Burnet, Lorenzo de Zavala, and Joseph Vehlein.

Title: Hanington's Grand Moving Dioramas
Identifier: foth_0393_multipage
Creator: Hanington, William J.
Dates: 1836
Description: William J. Hanington produced many moving dioramas between 1832 and 1856. This broadside advertised a feature on "General Houston's Glorious Victory." (A diorama, sometimes called a moving panorama, consisted of multiple canvas paintings sewn together and attached at either end to a vertical roller. The action would unfold as the large canvas was wound from one roller to another.)

Title: Important from Texas
Identifier: foth_0376
Dates: 1836-04-19
Description: The main article of this broadside recounts the death of James Fannin at Goliad.

Title: Inauguration Ball: Third Year of Independence
Identifier: foth_0478
Dates: 1838-12-10
Description: Invitation to the inaugural ball of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, elected president of the Republic of Texas in 1838. Lamar served as vice president in Sam Houston's first administration.

Title: Invitation to Gen. Houston's Ball
Identifier: foth_0472
Dates: 1839-10-24
Description: An invitation to a ball in honor of General Sam Houston. Though out of office during this period, Houston remained popular. He would run again for office in 1841 and win.

Title: Land in the Nashville Company
Identifier: foth_0103
Creator: Robertson, Sterling C. (Sterling Clark), 1785-1842, Nashville Company
Dates: 1834
Description: 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.