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Title: Account of mounting tension between Texans and Mexican soldiers.
Identifier: foth_0622_multipage
Box: 2e423
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
Box: 2a153
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
Box: 3Y62a
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: Annexation of Texas
Identifier: foth_0549
Dates: 1837
Box: BC DB 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
Box: 2h428
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
Box: 2d55
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
Box: BC DB 1836 (Streeter and Streeter variants)
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
Box: 2a159
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
Box: 2s320
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
Box: BC DB 1838-1839
Description: This broadside calls for volunteers to fight Indians on the northeastern frontier.

Title: Census of Béxar
Identifier: foth_0001_multipage
Creator: Martínez, Antonio María, -1823
Dates: 1820-01-01
Box: 2s130
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
Box: 3k25
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
Box: BC OB 1836-1839
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
Box: 2a149
Description: Document certifying that Stephen F. Austin had been granted Mexican citizenship. All Americans settling in Texas were required to become Mexican citizens.

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
Box: BC DB 1835
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
Box: BC OB 1840-1849
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
Box: BC DB 1835
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
Box: BC DB 1820-1829
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
Box: BC DB 1840-1845
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.