urn:taro:utexas.cah.01711 A Guide to the Thomas William Chambers Papers, 1824-1896 Original EAD encoding by Jessi Fishman according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. July 2010 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Chambers, Thomas William Chambers, Thomas William Papers 1824-1896 Materials are written in English. 5 in. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin The Thomas William Chambers Papers include correspondence, account papers, legal documents, land papers, and printed material, relating to the career of Chambers, Bastrop County farmer and cattleman. Biographical Sketch

Thomas William Chambers (d. 1855), Bastrop County farmer and cattleman, was married to Margaret Barker (formerly Mrs. Josiah Wilbarger). They owned and operated the Chambers plantation, which dealt with cotton sales, slave sales, and land transactions in Bastrop, Texas.

Source: RootsWeb, Ancestry.com. Bastrop Cemetery Links. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txbastro/cemetery.htm (accessed July 6, 2010).

Scope and Contents

The Thomas William Chambers Papers, 1824-1896, include correspondence, account papers, legal documents, land papers, and printed material. The papers pertain to business and personal affairs of Chambers and his family, including plantation life, the sale of cotton, the sale of slaves, and land transactions.

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Unrestricted access.

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Unrestricted use.

 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Chambers, Thomas William--Archives. Chambers, W. P. Chambers, Margaret Wilbarger family Fields, William Borden, Gail, 1801-1874 Subjects Plantation life--Texas Farming--Texas Cotton trade--Texas Slavery--Texas Places Bastrop (Tex.) Bastrop County (Tex.) Preferred Citation

Thomas William Chambers Papers, 1824-1896, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Separated Material

Some material has been separated to the Artifact Collection and to the Library Unit. See list of separated items in Box 2C442.

 Processing Information

This collection was processed by Mattie Hatcher, May 1929. Subsequent revisions were made by Sara Clark, January 1985.

Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project, 2009-2011.

 Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory 2C442 Papers 3S167 Oversize materials 2.116/OD1273 Oversize materials