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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: An Account of the Yellow Fever
Identifier: foth_0421_multipage
Creator: Smith, Ashbel, 1805-1886
Dates: 1839
Description: The state of public health in Texas was precarious at best, and epidemics of cholera, typhus, and other diseases were common. Ashbel Smith gained national notice with a study of yellow fever in Texas.

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: Alamo, Texas 1849 [San Antonio]
Identifier: foth_0635
Dates: 1849
Description: Uncased image of the Alamo Daguerreotype; This 1849 daguerreotype of the façade of the Alamo chapel in San Antonio is the earliest datable photograph taken in Texas and the only extant photographic view of the Alamo made prior to its reconstruction in 1850.

Title: Andrew Jackson to Anthony Butler
Identifier: foth_0563_multipage
Creator: Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
Dates: 1829-10-19
Description: President Andrew Jackson replaces Joel Poinsett with Anthony Butler who will continue negotiations with the Mexican government for the purchase of Texas.

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: Anonymous Englishman's Diary
Identifier: foth_0417_multipage
Dates: 1842
Description: This anonymous writer records physical descriptions of the country and discusses several issues confronting the Republic of Texas.

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: Army Orders
Identifier: foth_0645
Creator: Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.
Dates: 1836-03-02
Description: [Text begins:] Convention Hall, Washington, March 2, 1836. War is raging on the frontiers. Bejar is besieged by two thousand of the enemy...The citizens of Texas must rally to the aid of our army...Independence is declared, it must be maintained. ...[Signed:] Sam. Houston, Commander-in-Chief of the Army. [Followed by P. S. signed:] S. H. [handwriting on back] [Decorated with patterns as design elements.]

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: Authorization letter from President James K. Polk
Identifier: foth_0583
Creator: Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849
Dates: 1845-12-29
Description: Letter from President James K. Polk admitting Texas to the United States.

Title: B. R. Edwards to Capt. Ayleth C. Buckner
Identifier: foth_0616_multipage
Creator: Edwards, B. R.
Dates: 1826-12-26
Description: Letter from B.R. Edwards requesting support for Texas' independence from Mexico.

Title: B. R. Edwards to Col. James Rofs
Identifier: foth_0620_multipage
Creator: Edwards, B. R.
Dates: 1826-12-26
Description: Letter from B.R. Edwards requesting support for Texas' independence from 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: Brigade Orders
Identifier: foth_0488
Creator: Texas. Army
Dates: 1838
Description: This broadside calls for volunteers to fight Indians on the northeastern frontier.

Title: B.W. Edwards to Jesse Thompson
Identifier: foth_0211_multipage
Creator: Edwards, Benjamin W.
Dates: 1826-12-26
Description: B.W. Edwards reports that "we have raised the flag of Liberty in Nacogdoches - We have made a solemn treaty with all the Northern Indians in this Province."

Title: Census of Béxar
Identifier: foth_0001_multipage
Creator: Martínez, Antonio María, -1823
Dates: 1820-01-01
Description: Breakdowns by age, sex, status, and castes, plus notes on occupations and economic activity. Antonio Martínez signed the document. Martínez served as the last Spanish governor of Texas before Mexico gained independence from Spain.

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

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.