Andrew Forest Muir was born January 8, 1916 in Houston Heights, Texas. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree (1938) and a Master of Arts (1942) from Rice Institute, as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Texas (1949). While in Austin he taught at St. Luke’s school and tutored English at the University of Texas (1942-44), also serving as acting director of the San Jacinto Museum of History (1943-44). Muir next traveled to Hawaii where, from 1945 to 1949, he worked as a civilian employee for the U.S. Engineers in Honolulu, Hawaii, taught history at the Iolany School, and later was Educational Advisor to the Commanding General at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. He served as an Assistant Professor of History at Daniel Baker College in Brownwood, Texas, from 1951-53, before moving on to teach at the Polytechnic Institute, in San German, Puerto Rico for the 1953-54 academic year. Honored as a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial fellow for 1957-58, he then joined the history department at Rice Institute in 1958.
As a historian, Muir published numerous studies on religion and church leaders in Hawaii during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as several studies on free blacks in the Houston area. He also authored
Known as an authority on William Marsh Rice, his work
Andrew Forest Muir died on February 3, 1969.
Correspondence, research and genealogical notes compiled by former Rice professor Andrew Forest Muir. Subjects include early Texas history, early Texans, particularly Houston and Harris county, and the Episcopal Church in Texas, as well as the Anglican Church in Hawaii. Muir made the notes as a student at Rice Institute and at the University of Texas. The largest group of materials is Muir’s alphabetical subject research files which relate to 19th century Texas and Houston history; the life and death of William Marsh Rice; the growth of the Catholic, Anglican, and Episcopal Churches in the 19th century via missionary work in Texas and Hawaii; and Hawaiian history, specifically clergymen in Hawaii. These research files were created and maintained by Andrew Forest Muir circa 1935-1969, with subjects covering a wide range dates, circa 1750-1969, bulk 1800s.
Correspondents include fellow Texas historians, librarians and publishers such as Frank Wardlaw, Alfred A. Knopf, A.C. Greene, Angus Cameron (Editor, Alfred A. Knopf), attorney Cooper Ragan, William H. Masterson (regarding Journal of Southern History), Diana and Bill Hobby, J.W. Petty Jr. (Book Mart, Victoria, TX)
Also of interest is Muir's collection of original treasury notes and manuscripts (Series VI) which dates mainly from the Republic of Texas Era and the U.S. Civil War era, reflecting everyday life through local (county, city, state, Confederate) currency from Texas and Southern states, as well as correspondence, receipts, military orders, and more.
This materials is open for research.
Permission to publish from the Andrew Forest Muir papers, MS 17, must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.
Andrew Forest Muir papers, MS 17, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University
Gift of the estate of Andrew Forest Muir and through Ellis Rudy, 1973 and 2004.
Dates appearing after a person's name relate to that person's birth and death dates, not to the actual contents of the file.
Includes lists of research topics and publications, administrative correspondence regarding salary and grant funding.
Dates appearing after a person's name often reflect their birth and death dates, not the contents of the file. The files themselves were created and maintained by Andrew Forest Muir circa 1935-1969, with subjects covering a wide range dates, circa 1750-1969, bulk 1800s.
Notes on slave and real estate records, 1840s-1850s
San Augustine County, Texas, deacon, 1850s. Anglican priest, missionary to San Augustine and Nacogdoches, rector of Christ Church (Matagorda); notes on his life and career.
Founders of Houston; notes on Baldwin, Rice, and Allen families
of Harris County
Notes on life and career of this Houston lawyer and translator, organizer of First Baptist Church (Houston), ardent abolitionist who attempted scheme to free slaves with British money; portion of AFM article on S.P. Andrews; photocopy of brief in Eliza M. Westall & Wm. G. Hill vs. James F. Perry & Wife (Andrews the attorney for plaintiffs in this suit over the S.F. Austin Estate)
Notes and references to officers of the U.S. Volunteers from Texas in the war with Mexico (1846-1848); officers of the Regular Army who were killed, wounded or captured in Texas (1846-1872); West Point graduates who died in Texas (1845-1867); brief career sketches of West Point graduates whose activities touched Texas at one time or another (mid-19th century).
Notes on references to Texas flora, fauna, and wildlife in Audubon's works and letters; notes on Audubon's trip to Texas (1837); references to works on or by Audubon; John James Jr.'s trip to Texas (1845)
Deacon 1897 Honolulu
Brother of Stephen F. Austin. Notes on records of contested administration of estate of James E. Brown Austin (1837); photocopies of documents: 1. deed, S.F. Austin executor of Santiago (James) E.B. Austin to Michael Scanlin via J.W. Collins (1829-1831) 2.) Deed in Spanish: Jas. B. Austin to William C. White (March 31, 1828)
12 deeds to Santiago (James) E.B. (1824-1829) from: John F. Webber, Austin. McFarland, John Rabb, William Harvey, Peter Demoss, John Crownover, A.W.McClain, John Randon, Simon Miller, Elias R. Wightman, Frederick Rankin, William and John Cummings; abstracts of titles in inventories concerning lands sold to James E.B. Austin.
Notes on John Austin, his life and career, his intended duel with William H. Wharton; photocopy of his instrument founding the city of Brazoria; photocopy of inventory of his estate; photocopy of petition of James F. Perry, executor of Stephen F. Austin (1837)
Research concerning titles to lands in Stephen F. Austin estate; litigation concerning the estate; abstracts from deed records, probate case records, inventories, affadavits, petitions; photocopies of executor's accounts; correspondence and articles referring to Austin estate, photocopy of transcription of Austin's will (1833) and a petition for probate (1837).
Certified copies of land titles issued to S.F. Austin; references to Austin lands in
Photocopies of documents: 16 deeds to S.F. Austin from John Edward Dickerson, Phillip Singleton, Luke Moore, John D. Taylor, Mrs. L.A. White, Horatio Chriesman, Achilles McFarland, William Selkirk, William Parker, Alfred Kennon, Thomas Powell, Augustus Hotchkiss, Freeman Pettus, James W. Jones, and Robert Kuykendall; notes on deeds
Will and proof : Photocopy of a transcript of the will of S.F. Austin, Deceased (dated April 19, 1833; entered into the probate March 27, 1843); references and notes on entries in the records of Texas counties relating to the will and codicil of Stephen F. Austin
Brief notes on death of Stephen F. Austin Jr. (1828/29-1837), son of James E.B. Austin, nephew of Stephen F. Austin
James L. Autry, member of colonial family of Texas, county judge, pioneer lawyer in new oil industry, an executive of the Texas Company (Texaco). Autry collection (at WRC) includes papers of James L. Autry (1830-1862), lieutenant colonel in C.S.A. and speaker of the Mississippi House; and Micajah Autry (?-1836) who died at the Alamo. Notes on lives and careers of members of the Autry family.
Muir's lists of sources by subjects
Physician at Kona, Roman Catholic priest
Presbyterian evangelist, namesake of Daniel Baker College in Brownwood, Texas
Genealogy materials and notes on related families on central and southeast Texas: Menke, Bettis, von Rosenberg, Baker, Affleck, and Hass (late 18th through 20th centuries)
Brief notes on balls given in the Republic of Texas, taken from newspapers.
Notes on bankrupts in the Probate Records of Harris County, 1842-44, filed under the law passed Feb. 19, 1841.
Texas, 19th century. Notes on laws of the Texan Congress and legislature concerning regulation or prohibition of banking activities, references in newspapers, court cases involving companies performing acts of banking, early charters, commercial houses operating as banks, first banks under National Bank Act of 1863.
Church deacon, Hawaii, 1880s
Texas mail carrier, 1836. Early resident of what is now Clinton, Harris County, Texas. Member of Austin's colony (1834); notes on Batterson and Harrell families.
San Jacinto veteran. Coroner, Houston, Texas, 1860s
Curate of Greenhithe, Kent, 1871, at Diocese of Honolulu 1878.
Priest and missionary in Honolulu and Victoria, Vancouver Island.
Houston attorney, 1950s-1960s correspondence with AFM.
Deacon, Hawaii, 1870s-
Slave trade 1840s, causes of death in general population 1860s-1870s
Reproduction of case papers of W.J. Bryan et al vs. W.G. Hill, adminsitrator of Eliza M. Hill, deceased (1855) in Brazoria County District Court over lands inherited by Eliza M. Hill from estate of Stephen F. Austin
Reproduction of case papers of W.J. Bryan et al vs. W.G. Hill, administrator of Eliza M. Hill, deceased (1855) in Brazoria County District Court over lands inherited by Eliza M. Hill from estate of Stephen F. Austin
U.S. Consul, Galveston, 1834. Includes AFM's introduction to "Letters on a Proposed War Criminal Trial, 1836". Notes regarding correspondence with Jefferson Davis.
Graduate of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Reverend and missionary worker, Archdeacon (1915). Served in Victoria, Hong Kong and Yungchow, Hunan.
Priest, Honolulu, ordained 1875. Succeeded Frederick Charles Lloyd. Vicar of All Saints, Auckland, New Zealand, 1883, archdeacon 1901.
Notes on importation of camels in Texas for Army transportation; Jefferson Davis' plan to use camels during his term as Secretary of War; Robert E. Lee; programs for civilian use of camels for transportation; notes taken from newspapers, published letter collections, government imprints, secondary accounts, journal articles, congressional journals and documents, published memoirs, reference works, theses, acts of legislature, contemporary magazine articles,
Texas newspaper references 1850s-1860s on cattle drives, sales, industry, sheep, livestock and equipment.
Transcriptions of text on gravestones, including names, dates, epitaphs, and in some cases physical descriptions of the monuments. Typescript of AFM article "Nineteenth Century Texas Epitaphs".
Notes on state laws establishing the state cemetery at Austin.
Notes on specific cemeteries, and AFM's writings on 19th century cemeteries in these locations.
Diary typescript, 1837
Anglican priest, missionary to Texas in 1838
Anglican priest at Cold Springs (Polk County, Texas) and at Huntsville, former Presbyterian minister; notes on his career.
Anglican deacon, missionary to Grace Church (Independence, Texas); notes on his career.
Houston minister (1851), author of David Crockett's autobiography.
St. Andrew's Priory, Hawaii. Notes on her career.
Newspaper references, excerpts from clergy diaries, 19th century, on the controversy of ritualism in the Anglican rite; Viscount Halifax (d. 1934); Rev. T. Pelham Dale (1880); references in
Bibliography and references regarding the Tractarian or Oxford Movement of nineteenth century Britain.
St. Andrew's Priory, Honolulu, Hawaii. Notes on her career.
Notes on her career.
Notes on the activities of the American Bible Society throughout Texas; notes on various topics: Wharton family, Union Land Co., free Negroes, Logan family of Fort Bend County, bibliographical materials in Fondren Library, Federal census of Texas, Davis family of Fort Bend County, Coushatta tribe and Indians, Jose Antonio Mejia, George Lewis Hammeken, Henry Watkins Allen, McNabb family of Fort Bend and Brazoria Counties, photocopies of manuscripts concerning Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company.
Notes on religious life in Boerne (Kendall County) taken from state laws, imprints of the Episcopal church, reference works, monographs, deed records, tombstones; article "No Sabbath in West Texas: Missionary Appeals from Boerne, 1867-1868" edited with intro by AFM (published).
Notes 1843-1948 taken from newspapers, church burial register, baptismal records, marriage registers, civil case papers of district court, deed records, unpublished memoirs, abstract of title, monographs, Episcopalian publications, journals of the Texas Congress, unpublished manuscripts, vestry records.
AFM correspondence for research on the Anglican Church in Australia, Hawaii, and Texas.
Transcriptions of manuscripts pertaining to the organization of the first convention of the Episcopal Church in Texas (1843); transcription of the register of St. Peter's Church, Brenham, Texas (1869-1885)
Brief notes (1874-1894) on activities of and references to Reformed Episcopal Church in Harris, Travis, and Fort Bend Counties, and states of Colorado and Missouri.
Loose-leaf volume of notes on references of Tractarianism (Oxford Movement), Newmanism, Puseyism, Anglo-Catholicism.
Brief notes on movements in Portugal and Spain (1870s) to establish congregations with Anglican rites. Materials are in Portugese, Spanish and English.
St. Andrew's Priory, Hawaii. Notes on her career and death.
St. Andrew's Priory, Hawaii. Notes on her career and death.
Notes on marriages and other general topics.
Newsclippings, general outgoing correspondence
Original handwritten meeting minutes.
Notes on references to Anglo-Catholocism in the works of Agatha Christie; references to comments concerning Anglo-Catholocism in various literary works.
Deacon, Hawaii
Early Texas Baptist preacher, Washington County. Educator, principal/president of Baylor Female College at Independence, Texas (1851-1871), converted to Episcopal Church, rector of the Episcopal Church at Corpus Christi (1880-1897); notes on his life and career, references to Clark.
Member of Williams Chapter of Order of DeMolay, San Benito - Harlingen, TX. One outgoing letter, n.d.
Son of Nicholas Clopper. Texas revolutionary solider of Harris County. Notes relating to Battle of San Jacinto, real estate.
Notes and correspondence regarding Texas land grants, 1820s and 1830s
Episcopalian, elected Bishop of Texas, 1856, originally from Baltimore. Declined positions as Bishop of Texas and Rector of Christ Church, Houston. Notes and transcriptions of correspondence.
Episcopalian priest in Mississippi, Georgia, and Texas. Member of Austin's colony, 1830/31.
Anglican priest, resident of Washington-on-the-Brazos, revolutionary soldier, founder of a school at Brazoria. Typescript of autobiography, notes regarding real estate, career, Johnston family of Brazoria, Asa Brigham; AFM typescript article on J.W. Cloud.
List of members of the Senate and House of the First and Second Congresses (1836-1838), surveys of journals and proceedings of the House and Senate of the First Congress, 1st and 2nd Sessions, and of journal of the House for Called Session (Sept. 1837) and Regular Session (Second Congress, First Session).
Anglican priest of the old South, convert to CatholCatholicismcism; Anglicanism in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama.
Transcripts of correspondence from Mexico (including parts of what is now Texas) to local offices of the US Consulate. Also includes lists of consuls' names and locations of offices.
Transcripts of correspondence from Mexico (including parts of what is now Texas) to local offices of the US Consulate. Also includes lists of consuls' names and locations of offices.
Episcopalian priest, elected 1867; brief notes on career in Houston.
Texas real estate notes, 1870s
Episcopalian priest, rector of Christ Church, Houston 1864-1866.
Widow of the Brazilian ambassador to U.S. (1911-1918), possibly related to the Bates family of Brazoria County, divorce case handled by Albert T. Patrick (1890)
Anglican priest, born in St. Vincent, West Indies, educated in medicine and theology at London, rector of Christ Church, Houston 1857-1861.
Notes on military record of every member of the Davis Guards, arranged in alphabetical order; Dick Dowling and Sabine Pass.
Brochures, annual reports, 1959-1961
Episcopalian priest, rector of Christ Church, Matagorda, 1850
Druggist, of Hawaii, originally from Kentucky
Early settler of Texas
Notes on the fall of the Alamo, life of Angelina E. Dickinson; certified copies of legal briefs of Peter Bellows vs. Susannah Bellows (1857) and Susan Williams v. John Williams (1838).
Terms used in the Texas during the period of the Republic, taken from Joseph E. Field
Handwritten lists of divorces in various Texas counties, notes on divorces issued by the Congress of the Republic or by the district courts of Orange, Jefferson, Travis, Montgomery, and Harris Counties, 1839-1861.
Notes on land deeds in Harris County.
Notes and original correspondence, 1959-1960
U.S. Civil War veteran of Texas, fought in Battle of Sabine Pass. Notes on Davis Guards, and Dowling's relatives including Odlum and Shearn families.
U.S. Civil War veteran of Texas, fought in Battle of Sabine Pass. Notes on Davis Guards, and Dowling's relatives including Odlum and Shearn families.
Episcopalian priest at Brenham and Chapell Hill (1855-1857), missionary and rector of Christ Church at San Augustine and Christ Church at Nacogdoches (1851-1854). Notes on his career.
Notes on duelists roughly in the Republic of Texas (1826-1856); AFM article "Dueling in Frontier Houston" (unpublished); notes taken from newspapers, printed sources, journals of the Texas Congress, acts of the Texas Congress, letter collections, district court records, published diaries, monographs, probate records, state records, journal articles, material of Dr. Chauncey Goodrich, Marcus Cicero Stanley, David G. Burnet, Gen. Hugh McLeod, John A. Wharton, William T. Austin, ____ Lynch, Ben McCulloch, Albert Sidney Johnston, Felix Huston, Mirabeau B. Lamar, W.S. Fisher, William Tinsley, Edward Burleson.
Resident of San Antonio 1856-1868 and Houston 1874-1895. Texas lawyer, Chief Justice of Bexar County (1850s), Confederate officer, district judge, recorder of City of Houston, Harris County Clerk.
Episcopalian priest, missionary at Lockhart, Gonzales, Seguin and Bastrop, 1856-1857.
Clergyman in Hawaii 1874-1876
Episcopalian priest, rector of Trinity Church in Galveston (1842-1871), missionary to Galveston (1841); notes on early organization of Episcopal Church in Texas (1840s), notes on history of Trinity Church (1840s-1850s).
Slave owner, Brazoria County, 1840s
Catholic clergyman, Warden of the House of Charity
Notes on the suits brought by S.C. Robertson, McMullin &McGlone, executor of Stephen F. Austin, R.M. Williamson, executor of James F. Perry and Samuel M. Williams, Jose Manuel Bangs and Haden Edwards against the presidents of the Republic to settle the rights and claims of empresarios after the Revolution (1837-1840).
Notes on company names, locations, Texas and Virginia, taken from newspapers.
Surgeon General at Battle of San Jacinto
Diocese of Honolulu, 19th century
Episcopalian priest, U.S. Army chaplain at posts of San Antonio and Fort McKavett, TX, (1849-1850?)
U.S. Army chaplain, 19th century
Attorney and political adventurer in colonial Texas, businessman and office holder.
Original correspondence with AFM regarding an essay on Carrie Nation.
St. Andrew's Cathedral, Honolulu, deacon 1901
School materials, 1940s, University of Texas
Notes related to Texas and Alabama individuals and families, 1830s-1860s
Notes on Thomas Cevallos; official view of free Negroes in Bexar County (1851) taken from newspaper and laws of Texas legislature.
Notes on Greenbury Logan of Fort Bend County, Samuel H. Hardin, and others, James Richardson of Brazoria County; typescript with corrections of AFM article on Samuel H. Hardin; typescript with corrections of AFM article on Greenbury Logan (unpublished); notes taken from deed records, newspapers, probate records, civil district court records, land certificates, tombstones, criminal dockets, marriage records, journal articles, state records, laws of Texas, journals of the Texas Congress, manuscript collections, published letter collections, published primary sources, reference works; correspondence on research; material on George L. Hammeken; chronology of events in Texas 1861-1865; survey and abstracts of the
Notes on Peter Martin, Peter Nelson, Norman Davis, Nathan Burnett, and Oliver Brown, free Negroes of Fort Bend County (1838-1856); notes on Wyly martin, first chief justice of Fort Bend County; portion of AFM article on free Negroes in Fort Bend County.
Notes on free and emancipated Negroes in Galveston (1822-1859) taken from letter collections, printed sources, monographs, acts of the legislature, journals of the Texas Congress, newspapers, U.S. government records, deed records, Federal censuses, records of the district court, tombstones, will books.
Notes on 1847 suit of Emeline ____, memorials and petitions of free Negroes throughout Texas, Frank Burnes, Sulkey _____, Martha Moore, Delphina _____, Richard Robertson (drummer at Battle of San Jacinto), Eli Williams, Horace and Fanny ____, Thomas Savoy, Peter ____, Bob ____, Sally Vince, Maria Hamilton, Charlotte Dunn, Fannie M. McFarland, Ann Tucker, Dick Ellet, Diana Leonard, Zela (Zylpha) Husk, Nelly Norris, George William, Lucille ____, Maria ____, Tom Jefferson, Keziah ____, Sylvia Routh, Emily D. West, Amelia Raymond, Becky ____, Anderson ____, Richard Green, William White, Tamer ____ and Abby _____, Dick _____, Rhoda ____, George ____, Margaret _____, Matilda ____, Lyle ____, June _____, Bob Allen; notes from minutes of the county court, newspapers, army orders, correspondence, city records, legislative acts on free Negroes in general; correspondence on research.
Samuel McCullock, Sr. and Jr. of Jackson County and their petitions to free black relatives in Alabama and Texas
Notes (1830s-1860) on members of the Ashworth family of Jefferson County, Hiram Bunch, Robert Wilson, J. M. Carter, William Nelson, T.K. Alexander of Orange County, residents of Panola, Polk, Red River and Refugio Counties; several copies of AFM article "The Free Negro in Jefferson and Orange Counties, Texas" (published); notes taken from Federal censuses, newspapers, pension papers, printed contemporary sources, laws of the Texas Congress, congressional journals, commissioner's court minutes, published diaries, Texas reports, district court records, probate records, deed records, comptroller's military service records, land grant applications.
Peggy Johnston, a free Negro in Matagorda County.
Notes on Maxlin Smith, Liney ____, and Adam Gautier, free Negroes of Montgomery County (1839-1841, 1859), taken from wills, pension papers, journals of the Texas Congress, newspaper, and district court records.
Includes register of all free Negroes in Texas taken from 1850 Census.
Slaves manumitted by William O'Connell (1858) and David Connor (1847) of Travis County; Henry Lynch, free Negro; John F. Webber, U.S. pensioner.
Episcopalian priest, rector of Christ Church (Matagorda) in the early 1850s.
Episcopalian priest, former Methodist minister at Houston and Galveston (1840), private secretary to President Mirabeau B. Lamar (1841), rector at Austin (1851), army officer during the U.S. Civil War; Lamar Fontaine (son) author of "All Quiet Along the Potomoc" (?)
Episcopalian priest, Missionary Bishop of the Southwest (Arkansas and Texas) in the 1840s, provisional Bishop of Texas (ante 1854-1857).
Transcription of officials registrations, 1838-1840
Anglican priest, missionary to British Columbia (1860), educator, to San Francisco (1869), Bishop of Texas (1874); notes on Indians in British Columbia (1860s); two photographs of Garrett.
Notes on a proposed geological survey of Texas conducted in 1858; records on the survey while in progress (1859); correspondence concerning the survey, progress reports, newspaper accounts and reference to survey and natural resources of Texas, legislative reports, legislative acts on the survey, early considerations by Congress for study of geology (1839-1840), William P. Huff and Texas fossils, artesian wells, office of state geologist, payroll of state survey (1859-1861), inventory of the state Geological Bureau (1861); part of AFM article on selection of State Geologist (1858); notes on State Geologist after the Civil War, Francis Moore, B.F. Shumard
Relative (?) and heir to George Hermann: 800 acre farm in Fort Bend County and building next to Rice Hotel, Houston. Murdered by his wife; property reverted to Hermann Hospital. Notes on his life and family.
Anglican priest, rector of Christ Church, Houston, 1843-1851. Survey of marriage bonds of Gonzales County (1829-1830); marriage records of Montgomery County (1838-1840).
Episcopalian deacon at Trinity Church, Nacogdoches, 1850s.
Quotations from Whitman's Leaves of Grass concerning the Alamo, excerpts on the Alamo from "Song of Myself", criticisms of Whitman, other works of Whitman; correspondence on research.
Diocese of California, rector of Grace Church, San Francisco
Episcopalian priest of Maryland, missionary to Texas (1840), briefly rector of Christ Church, Houston in 1840; correspondence on research.
Episcopalian priest, missionary at Church of the Messiah (Gonzales, Texas) in 1859; rector of Trinity Church at time of his death. Died of yellow fever in Galveston, TX.
Deacon
Graduated from the U.S. Naval academy 1852.
Member, Holland Lodge, 1844-1874. Lawyer of Harris County, state legislator, district court judge, Confederate congressman, associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court; notes on life and career; Milam Guards (1841-1842).
Diarist of revolutionary Texas, attorney, Founder of Christ Church, Houston; first clerk of Texas Supreme Court; district attorney under the Republic of texas; diary of Mrs. Milly R. Gray (1838-1840); Gray family; early Episcopal church in Texas; judicial system of the Republic.
Episcopal priest, selected Bishop of Texas in 1859.
Brief notes.
Notes on his life, career, activities, family; the Union Land Company at Anahuac; photocopies of primary documents relating to the period of the Republic of Texas and Hammeken; notes on life and activities of Enrique Antonio Guillermo Mexia, his family; Hammeken as entrepreneur in Mexico, Texas colonist, agent of the Republic of Texas in Mexico, commission merchant (1840s), developer of transportation, President of the Brazos and Galveston Railroad Company; typescript copy of "Recollections of Stephen F. Austin" by Hammeken (1844); correspondence on research.
Typescripts of AFM's contributions to the Handbook, edited by Walter Prescott Webb, 1952.
Confederate nurse and spy, circus owner; brief notes on life, career and family.
Notes taken from published letter collections, unpublished manuscripts, Spanish colonial records, journal articles, published primary sources, district court records, state records, deed records, probate records, records of the General Council, newspapers, United States territorial papers, records of the General Convention; pieces of AFM manuscripts; correspondence on research.
Materials on the topic taken from Andrew Briscoe papers and papers of other Chief Justices of Harris(burg) County.
Early Harris County general notes, research built around families and individuals.
Surveys and transcripts of early records, correspondence, land surveys, etc. taken from deed records, minutes of criminal district court, minutes of county commissioners court, newspapers, census schedules, probate records, legislative statutes, letter collections, historical journals, marriage records, election records, proceedings of the board of land commissioners, published memoirs.
Notes from government records on early settlers, place names, and government of Harris County taken from manuscript collections, election records, diaries, journals of the Texas Congress, state records, correspondence, congressional papers, published letters, deed records, journals of the Consultation, records of the general Council, newspapers, acts of the Congress, probate case papers, monographs, journal articles.
Survey and abstracts of minutes of Commissioners Court of Harris County, March 28, 1837 through May 28, 1860 (incomplete)
Transcriptions and reference notes, volumes A-K and S-Z.
Survey of minutes of 11th District Court, volumes A-H.
Manuscript copy of the county index to Probate Cases, (probably) the earliest volumes.
Survey of persons naturalized by county court of Harris County
Lists of election results and officers for various county level offices.
Survey (incomplete) of Probate minutes of Harris County (Dec. 1838-June 1846) and survey (incomplete) of Probate Records of Harris County, volumes A-G (1837-1844) and L-T (circa 1857-1872)
Typescript drafts of chapters by AFM
Missionary, Honolulu
Research on Anglican Church in Hawaii, often transcripts of newsclippings and letters.
AFM, instructor of American history and English
Note on Edmund St. John Hawkins, d. 1837 and George N. Hawkins, d. 1837, of Brazoria County.
Chief Justice of Texas Supreme Court, US Senator from Texas, Confederate States Senator from Texas.
Typescript with corrections of AFM article "John Hemphill, Miscegenist" (unpublished).
Wife of James Pinckney Henderson of texas, linguist, author. Notes on James Henderson and early Anglican church in San Augustine and Nacogdoches.
References to the Hills in deed records, marriage records, probate records of Brazoria, Wharton, Colorado, and Galveston Counties, 1836-1879.
Genealogical research on Hobby and Pettus families of Harris County and Fort Bend County, respectively; family of former Governor William Pettus Hobby (1878-1964) and his father Judge Edwin Hobby (1842-1899).
Incorporating papers.
Notes on Holley in deed records of Galveston County, 1831, 1841.
Texas colonist, revolutionary soldier, first mayor of the city of Houston, officeholder under the Republic of Texas, President of Southern pacific Railroad Company; notes on his life and career; typescript carbon of AFM article "Who Was the First Mayor of Houston?" (unpublished); correspondence on research.
Notes taken from printed and manuscript maps, census records, church records, city council minutes, commissioners court minutes (Galveston County), newspapers, monographs, survey collections, deed records, transcript of manuscript account book of Doswell & Adams, commission merchants of Houston (Jan. 25 - May 30, 1838)
Notes on Houston arranged by subject in alphabetical order: Folder 4: Abolitionism, Alamo monument, annexation, ants, apprentices, arachnids, architects, arsenal, astronomy, auctioneers, bakeries, balls, bankruptcies, banks and banking, barbecues, barbers, bars, bathing, Beauchamp Spring, bells, billiards, blacksmithing, boarding , books, brawling, bricks, bridges, buffalo, building, business (state of), butchering, cabinet makers, Capitol, carpenters, cat, cattle, Chamber of Commerce, children, Christmas, church, circus, The Citizen newspaper, City Exchange, City Market, City Riflemen, civil engineers, Civilian newspaper, coal, coffee houses, Colt's revolver, commission merchants, confectioneries, cooks, corn, cotton, counterfeits, county jail, credit, currency, Cushatta (town), customs house. Folder 5: daguerreotypes, dancing, debating, dentists, dinners, distilleries, district court, divorces, dogs, Doswell & Adams merchants, drainage, draying, dry goods, education, electioneering, equipages, estrays, Exchange Bank, exchequer bills, excursions, expresss companies, Fannin Artillery, Fayetteville, females, ferries, fireworks, fishing, flags, fornication, foundries, 4th of July, free Negroes, Freemasons, funerals, furniture, Galveston Island, gambling, game, gardening, German immigrants, German Union, goats, graveyards, grist mills, gullies, guns, gunsmiths
Notes on Houston arranged by subject in alphabetical order. Folder 1: hangings, hardware, Harrisburg (town), Harrisburg County, Harris County, Harris County before Revolution, Harrisburg municipality, health, Hibernia Society, hides & peltries, history, horse racing, horses, hospitals, hotels, household supplies, Houston Dragoons, Houston (beginnings of), Houston (founding of), Houston (growth of), Houston (seat of government), Houston (temporary seat of government 1842), Houston Town Company), H.R. Allen & Co., hunting, ice, ice cream, illumination, Indians, insurance, jewelry, John Carlos & Co., John Huffman & Co., Kelley (Cornelius), Kesler's Arcade, land agencies, land laws, lard oil and stearine factories, lawyers, lethal weapons, Liberty Pole, libraries, liquors, livery stables, loafers, long Row, lotteries, Louisville (once Point Pleasant), lumber, Lynchburg. FOLDER 2: matches, mechanics and workingmen, medicine, merchants' supplies, Mexicans, Mexican Invasions (1842), Milan Guards, militia, milk, milliners, money lending, Morning Star newspaper, Morrell & Tyler, mosquitoes, moss, mud, music, musquito, National Banner, Banner of the Lone Star (newspaper), National Intelligencer (newspaper), national politics, natural history, navigation of Buffalo Bayou and Port of Houston, New Washington, New year's Day, newspapers, nurses, Odd Fellows, oranges, Order of Equal Fellows, oxen, painting, patents, pecans, pedlars, perfumery, Philosophical Society of Texas, phrenology, pictures, Piney Point, Pitkin Guards, planters' supplies, plats, population, post office, poultry, powder magazine, President's house, printing, privies, promissory notes, provisions, Protection Fire Company No.1. FOLDER 3: railroads, rats, religion, rental property, restaurants, roaches, roads, Rockey Well (town), room rentals, Sabbath, saddlery, salesmen, San Jacinto Day, San Jacinto (precinct of), San Jacinto (town of), San Saba Company, sawmill, scavengers, scenery, seafood, seamstresses, 2nd of March, sheep, shinplasters, shoemakers, shorthand, sidewalks, silversmiths, slaves, snakes, soda fountains, spectacles, Spilman's Island, Spring Creek, Spring Creek County, stage lines, steam engines, stoves, streets, subdivisions, Sunday school, swine, tailors, tanyards, Telegraph and Texas Register (newspaper), ten pin alleys, tents, Texas Typographical Association, Texian Democrat (newspaper), theater, Times (newspaper), title, tobacco, tombstones, town lots, translation, treasury notes, trees turtle oil, unemployed, ventriloquists, veterans, visitors, wages, washerwomen, watchmakers, water, wax tallow and honey, W.D. & R.M. Lee, wearing apparel, weather, weeds, Weekly Houstonian (newspaper), Weekly Times (newspaper), whipping and branding, whitesmiths, whittling, whores.
Member of British peerage, traveller and author, visitor to the Republic of texas, 1840s.
President of the Republic of Texas, governor and senator of the state; notes on his life, career, and business; anecdotes, letters, his views on the secession of Texas and the Civil War; notes on relatives of Sam Houston; correspondence on AFM's research.
Case in district court of Travis County (1846-48) concerning settlement of empresario contract of Austin and Williams (1831) under the Republic of Texas; notes on decisions of Texas Supreme Court on the appeal (1848) and new trial (1849).
Anglican priest, founder of Christ Church, Matagorda (1839), rector at Matagorda until his death in 1849, founder of the Matagorda Academy (ca. 1840); much material on early Episcopal Church in Texas, especially in Matagorda; extensive notes on life and career of Ives and family; correspondence on research; typescripts of Matagorda Parish records; 2 typescript copies with corrections of footnotes for AFM edition of portion of Caleb S. Ives' diary (1842-1843).
Irish immigrant to Louisiana, member of Austin's Colony (1823), settler in or around Harrisburg; notes on life and family.
Brief notes on problems of Harrisburg County jail (1838-1840) taken from minutes of county commissioners, newspapers, published letters.
Includes index, v. A-I: 15 names.
Notes on Jews in Texas (1830s-1870s) taken from contemporary printed sources, newspapers, Federal census, records of land grants, tombstones, state laws, district court records, marriage records, interment records, deed records, congregation minute books and account books, monographs, journal articles, probate records, assessors records, reference works; AFM articles "Lewis A. Levy, the Initiator of Organized Jewry in Texas" and "Lewis A. levy, Pioneer Merchant of Houston" (both unpublished); AFM (?) typescript "Jews and Negroes in the Texas Revolution"; typescript carbon of "The Jews in Houston and Galveston, Texas During the Civil War" by Gary Alan Ratkin (May 1963); correspondence on research.
Episcopalian priest, missionary in Texas (Seguin) in 1850s, chaplain in the Confederate army.
Notes and typescript of article by AFM on Kaauwai.
English Presbyterian minister, visitor to Texas (Galveston) 1860s, converted to Episcopalianism, returned to England late 1865.
German immigrant, Confederate engineer at Galveston.
Resident of Nueces County, held property in Texas, Illinois, on island of Ruaton, in British Honduras, and Central America.
Brief notes.
Diocese of Honolulu
Notes on and references to the Knights, 1856-1867, and to George C. Bickley, 1814/15-1867.
Diocese of Honolulu
Dutch immigrant, settled in Texas 1830, participant in activities at Anahuac, 1832; revolutionary soldier, schooner captain; notes on Texas navy; correspondence on research; activities of Texas army after San Jacinto; photocopy of typescript of "Reminiscences of David Levi Kokernot" edited by Kent Gardien; photocopy of typescript of a speech "Captain Kokernot" by Kent Gardien (?).
Socialistic settlement in Hood County, TX (ca. 1929-1934) established by Martin Christiansen and others; notes on the settlement taken primarily from deed records.
Brief notes
Survey and abstracts from the Proceedings of Board of Land Commissioners of Harris County, Volume A (January 4, 1838-January 7, 1848).
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AN incomplete survey of various special laws (relief acts and company charters) in volumes 4 and 5 (1853-1866) of H.P.N. Gammel (comp.), The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897; incomplete survey of special and general acts in Gammel, vol. 5; incomplete survey of special laws in Gammel vols. 1 and 2; survey of charters of incorporation in Gammel, vols. 1 and 2 (1835-1846).
Notes on laws pertaining to wills, probate, inventories, colonial records, inheritance, primogeniture under laws of Spain, Mexico, Republic of Texas; correspondence on research.
Includes photocopies of letters from American Missionary Association collection at Fisk University.
Died 1941 in Ontario Province, Canada; correspondence on research.
Brief notes, 1840s. Rector of Christ Church, Mobile, Alabama. Brother-in-law of Caleb S. Ives of Matagorda, TX.
Notes on titles available in various places, 19th century.
Transcripts and abstracts of documents in the Adele Lubbock (Briscoe) Looscan papers; 2 copies of a genealogy of the Harris family (John Richardson Harris of Harrisburg Co., Texas); notes on papers and letters of the Briscoe family (1820s-1840s); Harrisburg Railroad & Trading Co. (1838); transcripts of deeds of Harris County; life of Andrew Briscoe (1810-1849); life of William P. Harris; shipping notices, letters (1830s-1870s) of the Harris, Birdsall, and Richardson families of Harrisburg County; transcripts of travel tickets by steamers, receipts for Briscoe family.
Brief genealogy of the McKinstry family of Brazoria and Galveston Counties. McKinstry, a judge of Brazoria County, presided over the probate will of Stephen F. Austin.
Census returns of members of McNeel family of Brazoria County (1850, 1860, 1870, 1880) and will of John G. McNeel, Sr. (1801/2-1867)
Records of land ownership and residence in TX
Notes on various marriages performed in the Houston-Galveston area, 1827-1851, taken from county marriage records. Harris County vols. A, B, C (1837-1854); Jefferson County vols. A, B (1937-1849); Brazoria County, vol. 0 (1829-1846); Galveston County, vol. A (1838-1840); criminal court records of Harris County district court under the Republic of Texas: entries concerning Pamela Mann (1837-1857); entires in Deed Records of Harris County concerning Pamela Mann (1839-1840); district court records of Harris County (criminal) volumes A and B (1837-1839); district court records of Travis County (criminal), volumes A,B,C (1840-1853); immigration records (Brazoria County ?), 1835-1844.
Alphabetical index of officiants of marriages covering Galveston, Travis, Brazoria, Jefferson, Austin, Bastrop, Washington, Fort Bend, and Harris Counties (antebellum period).
Notes on Masterson family of Brazoria and Harris Counties (1813-1949); notes taken from deed records, survey map of Brazoria County, transcripts of letters, veterans papers, journal articles, Harris Masterson papers in Fondren Library, newspapers, cemeteries, monographs, census records, marriage records, probate records, will books, district court minutes.
Colonist and Texas rebel, resident of Galveston, postmaster and alderman, relative of the founder of Galveston.
Ada B. (Theodore) Menken, American actress and dancer; bibliography of works on Adah Isaacs Menken; notes on marriage and divorce; correspondence on research.
Brief notes on the family of George Moore of Grayson County, Texas, 1860s, taken from census and deed records. George and Mary Moore, parents of Carrie A. (Moore) Nation.
Settled in Texas in 1830, colonial businessman at New Washington (Morgan's Point).
Notes on municipal corporations in Texas taken from the plan of the Provisional Government of the Republic of texas; records of the General Council; the selection of officials by the General Council; the sale of lots in Washington, Houston, Hamilton, Fayetteville, Buffalo; fate of Harrisburg; references in newspapers; proposed towns of San Louis (San Luis), Austinia, Beaumont, Bolivar, Houston (Houston County), Liverpool, Monticello, Washington; lists of texas towns in the 1840s and references for descriptions.
British author, botanist, artist, abolitionist, wrote book on Southern botany, toured Texas and the South in the 1850s.
Prohibitionist of 1900-1911; notes on her life and activities, her friends and relatives; correspondence on research.
Survey of news items in Texas newspapers, late 1820s-1870s.
Notes on early oil well in Brown Co. (ca. 1871-1891) found by Martin Meinsinger of Brownwood, TX, taken from deed records, monographs, and district court records; notes on Meinsinger family of Brown County.
Notes on "Old Three Hundred" applications for land and grants given within Stephen F. Austin's colonies (1823-1836), particularly in Harris County; Stephen F. Austin's power of attorney; notes on Spanish testmentary law.
Episcopalian priest, missionary to Texas in 1857, San Augustine and Nacogdoches, died in Galveston.
Episcopalian priest, missionary at St. Paul's Church (Brownsville, TX) 1851-1854, chaplain at post of Fort Brown (1853-1859), rector of St. Paul's Church (1854-post 1856).
Taken from reports of the U.S. Commissioner of Patents, newspapers, published diaries, state records, correspondence, journals of the Texas Congress, acts of the Texas Congress, published letter collections.
Photocopy of deed assigned to J.F. Perry as executor of Stephen F. Austin's colonies in Bastrop County (1838); reproductions of case papers in Houston vs Perry, executor of Austin and Williams (1849) before the Texas Supreme Court.
Photocopies of deed records pertaining to actions of James Franklin Perry as executor of Stephen F. Austin (1838-1840) in Bastrop and Brazoria Counties; photocopies of deed records pertaining to actions of J.F. Perry as executor of S.F. Austin in Brazoria County (1837-1844).
Transcriptions of case papers of James Franklin Perry as executor of Stephen F. Austin, deceased, vs. Mary E. Coles, administrator, William W. Hill, administrator of John P. Coles, deceased, and Thomas L. Scott and wife et al., hiers at law of John P. Coles (1845-1853) over lands claimed by Austin Estate.
Case in district court of Brazoria County (1838) concerning the will of Stephen F. Austin, his heirs, and his executors; decision of the Texas Supreme Court (1842) on the appeal; photocopies and transcriptions of district court and Supreme Court records.
Notes on and references to petroleum in Texas newspapers, 1865-1866, 1872.
Photocopy of Phillips et al., vs. William G. Hill and Wife (1848) -- see 3 Tex. 397 (1848); participant Eliza M. Hill was a former sister-in-law of Stephen F. Austin and was involved in litigation concerning the Austin estate.
Methodist minister at Houston, 1840s, at St. Andrew's Church in Bryan, St. Paul's Church in Navasota, at Columbus and Seguin, later ordained as Episcopalian priest, 1870.
Husband (1831-1835) of Eliza M. Hill (sister-in-law of Stephen F. Austin); notes on records of administration of his estate (1837-1848)
Episcopalian priest, former Baptist, missionary to Texas, rector at Brenham (1848- ?), rector at Christ Church at Matagorda (ca. 1852-1854), later Bishop of Arkansas (1870 - ?); correspondence on research.
Wife of ____ Markel, John Austin, Thomas F.L. Parrott, William Pierpoint. material covers her life and her part in litigation in district court (1834-1847) concerning lower half of eastern league of John Austin two leagues (site of city of Houston on Buffalo Bayou).
Episcopalian priest, Bishop of the Southwestern Diocese of the United States (1838), Missionary Bishop of Arkansas; Bishop of Louisiana, Confederate General; notes on his tours to Texas churches (1839, 1842, 1844) and religious career; correspondence on research.
Photocopy of Portis and Wife et a., vs. William G. Hill et al. (1858); participant Eliza M. Hill was a former sister-in-law of Stephen F. Austin; this case involved the S.F. Austin and J.E.B. Austin Estates; abstract of Portis and Wife and Others v. Hill and Wife and Others, 14 Tex. 69 (1855); abstract of David Y. Portis et ux v. William G. Hill et al., 30 Texas 529 (1868); note on David Y. Portis and Wife v. William G. Hill, Administrator of Eliza M. Hill, Deceased, 3 Tex. 273-274 (1848).
Episcopalian priest, nephew of Caleb B. Ives, missionary to Anderson, TX in 1854, rector at St. Paul's College (Anderson) in 1855, at St. John's in Columbus and St. James' in LaGrange and at Seguin, 1855-1857.
Episcopalian priest, accompanied Bishop Freeman in Texas, 1846.
Episcopalian priest, missionary at Seguin 1855-1866, at New Braunfels 1867-1868, at Trinity Church in Galveston 1869-1872.
Colonel in Confederate Army, involved in development of Houston and in Federal and Confederate diplomacy (wife was a niece of Henry Clay).
French "communistic" colony (1854-1855) settled in Dallas County on Trinity River by Victor Prosper Considerant (La Societe de Colonisation Europeo-americaine au Texas or La Reunion); notes on the colony, correspondence on the colony, writings of V.P. Considerant; correspondence on research.
Episcopalian priest, former deputy county clerk in Grimes County, priest in Harris County, 1866-1869.
Lawyer of New York State, Texan immigrant 1835, private secretary to David G. Burnet, chief clerk of Department of State under Austin, a district attorney under the Republic of Texas, settler in Florida Territory, settler in Oregon, Attorney general of the Kingdom of Hawaii (1840s), attorney in California 1847, traveller in Central and South America, the Pacific, Asia, Africa, and Europe; notes on Ricord and Stryker families, era of the Republic of Texas. See also Microfilm, box 81.
Episcopalian priest, to Texas 1850s, rector of St. Stephen's Mission Episcopal Church (Houston) and the Episcopal Church at Hempstead (late 19th century).
Episcopalian priest, missionary at Corsicana, Waco, and San Antonio (1855), former minister of Methodist Episcopal Church South (ca. 1849-1852), founder and first rector of St. Matthew's at Dallas, 1857. Died 1868.
Anglican priest who organized Anglican parishes in Texas.
Notes on Dowling and family, Civil War military techniques.
British cotton merchant, resident of Galveston in 1840s and 1850s, father of James Ruthven (also a visitor to Galveston).
Anglican priest, missionary to Texas, Houston educator, 1837-1840.
Episcopalian priest, at Christ Church (San Augustine) and Christ Church (Nacogdoches) 1848-1851, at Trinity Church (Marshall) and at Jefferson (1851), rector at Christ Church (Houston) in 1852, rector at Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1860s-1890s.
Notes on references to scientific topics (mainly astronomy, geology, and meteorology) in newspapers of Texas, 1849-1865.
Canadian-born woman who disguised herself as a man and joined the Union army during the Civil War.
Episcopalian priest, at Bellville, TX, early 1860s; at Jefferson City, 1865.
Brief notes on infant silk culture of 1830s in the Old South and Texas; notes from newspapers.
Anglican priest from University of Oxford (?), proposed school at Galveston (1841), at Houston (1841); correspondence on research.
Notes on slavery in Texas (1839-1870) taken from newspapers, correspondence, papers of the Texas navy, city ordinances, coroner's records, criminal district court records, probate records, deed records, monographs, published letters, laws of the Territory of Orleans, marriage registers, baptismal registers, county commissioners court minutes, contemporary published sources, laws of texas Congress and legislature, Texas reports, church records, journals of the Texas legislature; bibliography.
Anglican priest from Ireland (1849), to Austin and San Antonio (1859), at Christ Church (Covington, Louisiana) in 1850.
Episcopalian priest, missionary at Anderson, TX in 1855.
Merchant and soldier, Texas, 1850s
Typescript of AFM article "Spring Creek County, Texas" for the Handbook of Texas, notes on residents of and on the county itself, taken from deed records, newspapers, acts of Congress of Texas, congressional journals, election registers, state records, probate records, district court records; correspondence on research.
Episcopalian priest, former Methodist minister, became Episcopalian priest in 1817, from Virginia to Tennessee, to Texas in 1839 (Harrison County, TX), at Border Episcopal Mission (on Texas-Louisiana Line) in 1840s, in Harrison County and Louisiana 1840-1857; correspondence on research.
Texas cases before the U.S. Supreme Court; Texas attorneys admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Notes on his life and family. Colonel of Terry's Texas rangers, planter of Brazoria County, and members of the Rangers: Andrew Jackson, Thomas Lubbock, William J. Kyle, Alexander Sessums, Thomas Washington Masterson, William Masterson (?), John A. Wharton.
Typescript copies of articles in the
Business papers of this Harrisburg firm (founded 1827) operated by the Clopper family.
French and Spanish Consul, Inspector and Weigher at Galveston in 1850s and 1860s, expelled from Confederacy by President Jefferson Davis on suspicion of intrigue (1862).
Judge at Houston, poet, member of Christ Church, Houston.
German immigrant to Austin's Second Colony, soldier at San Jacinto, resident of Houston. (includes typescripts of AFM’s essay “Heinrich Thurwachter, Soldier at San Jacinto”)
Episcopalian priest, rector of St. John's (Thibodaux, Louisiana) in early 1860s, rector of Christ Church, Houston, ca. 1869-1873.
Immigration and mercantile company (1831-1833) which attempted to settle colonists on lands secured through Galveston Bay and Texas land Company; notes on the Union Land Company, James Prentiss, Henry Bowdoin Prentiss, Gen. E.A. Mexia, George Lewis Hammeken; list of colonial marriage bonds of Austin County (1824-1835); AFM article "The Union Company in Anahuac, 1831-1833, edited with an introduction by Andrew Forest Muir" (published).
Episcopalian priest, member of First Virginia Irregular Cavalry (Moseby's Guerillas) 1861, captured 1863, released 1865, to Texas with Bishop Gregg of Texas, served at St. Stephen's Church, Huntsville from 1873, Rector at Christ Church (Laredo, Rector Emeritus at Christ Church (Laredo), ca. 1910-1935.
Notes concerning Eduardo Garay, subsecretary of Exterior Relations for Mexico (late 19th century), references on Mexico in the late 19th century, Elizabeth Bell Da Gama, Jorge Hammeken y Mexia, Masterson family, Enrique A. Mejia, James Frank Dobie, Sen. Rienzi Johnston, bibliographies on Britain, Carrie A. nation, August Santleben, Gouvernior family of New England, John Southerland, M.D. of Bexar County.
Member of Austin's Colony, miscegenist, farmer, Unionist who fled to Mexico, pensioner of the United States; notes on his life and activities; typescript of AFM article for the Handbook of Texas supplement; correspondence on research.
Notes on these families and others of Brazoria County; notes on C.R. Wharton papers in Fondren Library.
Congressman from Territory of Florida, expert on British, Spanish, French, Mexican and Texan civil law on land titles, partisan of Texas Republic, delegate, Texas House of Representatives, 1825-1837.
Physician and resident of Harris County, living in vicinity of battle of San Jacinto, accused of being a "tory" during the Texas Revolution.
Transcripts of wills and related papers (1823-1863) of: James Bowie (1833), H.L. Arick (1852), John Birdsall (1839), William Boyd (1838), Patrick Braidy (1839), Andrew Briscoe (1848), Andrew M. Clopper (1852), Merrit M. Coats (1823), John DeBrot (1830), Charles L. Dell (1853), Daniel Dolan (1838), George Elder 91853), Edward E. Este (1842), Spencer Glasscock, James Grant (1835), Robert Griffith (1837), Thomas Hand (1837), Alexander Hodge (1836), George Ireland (1838), Gabirel Long (1837), Nathaniel Lynch (1837), Marshall Mann 91838), Jacob Maybee (1838), Laban Medifee (ante 1845), John W. Moore (1845), S.B. Raymond 91855), William H. Rogers (1836), James Routh (1837), Elizabeth Rundell (1852), Hal G. Runnels (1857), John Schnell (1859), William Smallwood (1844), James H. Stevenson (1856), Melinda G. Stockbridge (1858), John Taylor (1846), John Thornton (1863), George Williams (1842), John W. Moore (1845), Chauncey Goodrich, M.D. (1836), Felix Huston (1856); incomplete index of wills in Harris County (volumes A-Z, 1-11, for years 1836-1858)
Episcopalian priest, Rector, Christ Church, Matagorda, 1855-1857
Episcopalian priest, Missionary to Brazoria County 1848, St. John’s Church, Brazoria County, 1849; Bishop 1867.
Botanist, authoress, correspondent, expert on Texas flora, superintendant of Houston public schools, selections from her works.
This material was collected by Andrew Forest Muir and dates mainly from the Republic of Texas Era and the U.S. Civil War era, reflecting everyday life through local (county, city, state, Confederate) currency, correspondence, receipts, military orders, and more.