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Title: Account of mounting tension between Texans and Mexican soldiers.
Identifier: foth_0622_multipage
Description: Recounts events at Anahuac resisting collection of customs dues and diarming of Mexican soldiers.

Title: Address to the Central Committee
Identifier: foth_0237_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1833-04
Description: Stephen F. Austin delivered an address to the "Gentlemen of the Convention," citing reasons for Texas separating from Coahuila.

Title: Appointing James Kerr as acting empresario of DeWitt's Colony
Identifier: foth_0089_multipage
Creator: DeWitt, Green
Dates: 1827-07-14
Description: Green DeWitt named surveyor James Kerr to be his official agent for the colony. In this capacity, Kerr would "do, act, and perform all and singular, the duties imposed" on DeWitt by the grant.

Title: Austin to Cherokee Chiefs
Identifier: foth_0221_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1827-01-24
Description: Stephen F. Austin addresses his letter to his "friends and Brothers, the Chiefs and Warriors of the Cherokee living in Texas." Austin cautions the Cherokee against siding with the Nacogdoches men leading the rebellion against Mexico.

Title: Béxar Register Book, Candidates for delegates
Identifier: foth_0265_multipage
Dates: 1836-02-01
Description: List of men elected by citizens of San Antonio to serve in the General Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos. This assembly declared Texas independent from Mexico.

Title: Certificate for admittance in the Nashville Colony
Identifier: foth_0104
Creator: Robertson, Sterling C. (Sterling Clark), 1785-1842
Dates: 1835
Description: Sterling C. Robertson issued this receipt to A.F. Burchard, awarding Burchard admittance as a colonist into the Nashville Colony.

Title: Certification of Mexican Citizenship granted to Stephen F. Austin
Identifier: foth_0026_multipage
Creator: Republic of Mexico
Dates: 1824-03-09
Description: Document certifying that Stephen F. Austin had been granted Mexican citizenship. All Americans settling in Texas were required to become Mexican citizens.

Title: Commandment of Arms at La Bahía
Identifier: foth_0086_multipage
Creator: DeWitt, Green
Description: Green DeWitt, empresario of the DeWitt Colony, writes to the Commandant of Arms at La Bahía, requesting troops be stationed at La Bahía to protect citizens and their property from Indians.

Title: Constitutional Alcalde of the Jurisdiction of Austin
Identifier: foth_0224
Dates: 1832-12-07
Description: Held in San Felipe de Austin, the Convention of 1832 adopted a series of resolutions to be presented to the Mexican Congress. One of the resolutions called for organizing a militia and committees of vigilance, safety, and correspondence. Though Texas never presented the resolutions to the Congress, some of the resolutions held firm. This certificate confirms Edward Burleson as a lieutenant colonel in a provisional militia.

Title: Copia de un apunte suelto de la campaña de Tejas, que principia en 18 de marzo de 1836 [. . .] [Manuscript pages describing the death of David Crockett]
Identifier: foth_0318_multipage
Creator: Peña, José Enrique de la, 1807-1841 or 1842
Dates: 1836-03-18
Description: Lt. Col. Nicolás de la Portilla presided over the garrison at Goliad when Santa Anna ordered the mass execution of prisoners there. Portilla's notes were lost and, thus, were never incorporated into the Mexican army's general report on the Texas campaign. Peña's narrative includes his account of the execution of David Crockett following the assault on the Alamo. The account, translated, reads as follows: Some seven men had survived the general carnage and, under the protection of General Castrillón, they were brought before Santa Anna. Among them was one of great stature, will proportioned, with regular features, in whose face there was the imprint of adversity, but in whom one also noticed a degree of resignation and nobility that did him honor. He was the naturalist David Crockett, well known in North America for his unusual adventures, who had undertaken to explore he country and who, finding himself in Bejar at the very moment of surprise, had taken refuge at the Alamo, fearing that his status as a foreigner might not be respected. Santa Anna answered Castrillón's intervention in Crockett's behalf with a gesture of indignation and, addressing himself to the sappers, the troops closest to him, ordered his execution ... Though tortured before they were killed, these unfortunates died without complaining and without humiliating themselves before their torturers.

Title: Dispatch book of the Legation of Texas in Paris
Identifier: foth_0480
Dates: 1844-11-13
Description: Texas maintained a diplomatic legation in France and England throughout the life of the Republic. This letterbook contains copies of dispatches sent by Texas ministers James Pinckney Henderson and Ashbel Smith to the secretary of state of the Republic of Texas, 1838 to 1844.

Title: Dispatch book of the Legation of Texas in Paris
Identifier: foth_0473_multipage
Dates: 1844-11-13
Description: Gives results of elections and slate of officials taking office on December 13, 1841. Ashbel Smith served as chargé d'affaires to England and France from 1842 to 1844.

Title: Emigration to Texas in Mexico
Identifier: foth_0105_multipage
Creator: Burnet, David G. (David Gouverneur), 1788-1870
Description: David Burnet describes the Mexican state of Texas for prospective colonists in this manuscript.

Title: Expenses from Columbia Texas to Washington U.S.
Identifier: foth_0469_multipage
Creator: Santa Anna, Antonio López de 1794-1876
Dates: 1838-06-04
Description: List of expenses incurred by Antonio López de Santa Anna during his trip from Columbia, Texas, to Washington, D.C., after his capture by Sam Houston's army. The account is countersigned by Sam Houston, president of the Republic of Texas.

Title: Fuerte de San Antonio de Valero, llamado communmente del Alamo . . .
Identifier: foth_0328
Creator: Navarro, José Juan Sánchez
Dates: 1836
Description: Sánchez Navarro kept a private record in two ledgers detailing his observations both of the siege of Béxar in 1835 and the assault on the Alamo in 1836. In one ledger he drew this plan of the Alamo, identifying the fort's physical components and its defenses, with comments on their relative strengths.

Title: Le Texas
Identifier: foth_0435_multipage
Creator: Castro, Henri, 1786-1865
Dates: 1845
Description: Empresario Henri Castro recorded his description of Texas and his efforts to bring families from France to Texas. He named his colony Castroville.

Title: Leftwich Grant
Identifier: foth_0102
Dates: 1835-10
Description: Robert Leftwich played a key role in the founding of Robertson's colony. The contract was granted on April 25, 1825, and gave Leftwich permission to settle 800 families.

Title: List of men in the Liberty Volunteers
Identifier: foth_0305_multipage
Creator: Briscoe, Andrew
Dates: 1835-11-21
Description: Men from Liberty, Texas, who were part of the Texans' siege of Béxar. Briscoe felt that only six or eight would refuse to attack the Mexican army in San Antonio; the rest, he stated, "will go, intending to conquer or die."

Title: List of the men under the Command of Col. J. W. Fannin, at Goliad in March 1836. Corrected from the list published in the 'Telegraph' of Nov. 9, 1836
Identifier: foth_0334_multipage
Creator: Barnard, J. H. (Joseph Henry), 1804-1860 or 1861
Dates: 1836
Description: Barnard's list of Texan soldiers killed or wounded at Goliad. A surgeon in James W. Fannin's command, Dr. Barnard was spared during the massacre so that he could treat Mexican soldiers.

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.

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