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Size: 5 boxes (2.5 linear feet) Acquisition: 1959, 1985 Access: Open for research Processed by: Lois Blount 1959, Linda Coingore 1979, Pam Palmer & Linda Nicklas, 1981 TIDES Link: Burton Crossland Collection |
Born January 20, 1930, and a native of the Fairview Community near Nacogdoches, Mr. Crossland was a graduate of Nacogdoches High School and a member of the Nacogdoches Chamber of Commerce and the Jaycees. He was intensely interested in local history and belonged to the Nacogdoches Historical Society. Mr. Crossland collected these papers and documents pertaining chiefly to early Nacogdoches history which, after his untimely death in November, 1959, were placed in the library by his widow.
("Burton Crossland Killed in Wreck." Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel 16 Nov. 1959: A1).
The Collection includes personal and business letters, accounts, agreements, receipts and other business and legal papers of the Lister family of Tennessee and Shelby Co., Texas (1834-1867); personal letters of the Jordan Williams family of Selma and Alpine, Alabama (1857-1862) chiefly to Rosalindy Lister; and field notes, plats, deeds, bonds, court orders, accounts, receipts, land documents and letters of James R. Arnold, William W. Garret, and James S. Linn of Nacogdoches Co., Texas (1854-1900).
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BOX 1
Folder 1: William W. Barret papers, deed and account, 1854, 1859. 2 items. Charge account at Hardeman & Barret, 1839.
Folder 2: William W. Barret and James S. Linn, mortgage, 1853. 1 item.
Folder 3: James R. Arnold, William W. Barret and James S. Linn, deeds, receipt, 1855-1861. 6 items.
Folder 4: Arnold and Garret, agreements, 1862, 1866. 2 items.
Folder 5: Arnold and Barret land papers, 1857-1859. 5 items.
Folder 6: Arnold and Barret land papers, 1860-1862. 5 items.
Folder 7: Arnold and Barret land papers, Jose Luis de la Bega, 1855-1862. 8 items.
Folder 8: Arnold and Barret land papers, 1860-1861. 6 items.
Folder 9: Arnold and Barret land papers, 1859. 1 item.
Folder 10: James R. Arnold land papers, 1858-1874. 16 items.
Folder 11: James R. Arnold land papers, 1883-1899. 9 items.
Folder 12: James R. Arnold land papers, miscellaneous, 1867-1898. 15 items.
Folder 13: James R. Arnold legal papers, 1857-1859. 7 items. Conveyance of Trust selling parcel of land and four slaves, 1858.
Folder 14: James R. Arnold legal papers, 1867-1880. 8 items.
Folder 15: James R. Arnold legal papers, bonds, 1857-1860. 9 items.
Folder 16: James R. Arnold business with Francisco Acosta, 1859. 3 items.
Folder 17: James R. Arnold Civil War related documents, including certificate of parole, 1862-1863. 3 items. Letter from Confederate States of America Post Office Department, 1862. Postman's contract, Confederate States of America,1864. Confederate Prisoner of War Parole certificate, 1865.
Folder 18: James R. Arnold. 2 items. Form letter to the Veterans of the Mexican War, 1899. Letter concerning cutting of timber, 1898.
Folder 19: James R. and Sarah Arnold land papers, 1879-1898. 10 items.
Folder 20: James R. and Sarah Arnold, Sinclair land, 1879-1885. 14 items.
Folder 21: James R. and Sarah Arnold, Micheli land, 1883-1891. 16 items.
BOX 2
Folder 1: Thomas H. Lister papers, bills and accounts, 1835-1867. 11 items. Receipt for subscription to The Weekly Delta.
Folder 2: Thomas H. Lister, post office and census papers, 1849-1851. 7 items. Letter from Census office citing deficiency.
Folder 3: Thomas H. Lister, correspondence, 1848-1854. 3 items.
Folder 4: Thomas H. Lister, legal and land papers, 1842,1855. 2 items.
Folder 5: James H. Lister papers, 1856, 1860. 2 items.
Folder 6: Spartin L. Lister papers, correspondence, 1848-1853. 7 items.
Folder 7: Rosa (Linda Jane) Lister papers, correspondence, 1857-1859. 7 items.
Folder 8: Rosa (Linda Jane) Lister papers, correspondence, 1860. 5 items.
Folder 9: Rosa (Linda Jane) Lister papers, correspondence, 1861-1865. 5 items. News/rumors Lee surrendered and Lincoln is dead, April 29, 1865.
Folder 10: Oat[e]s - Stevens Family legal papers, 1835-1889. 7 items. Receipt of sale of 12 year old slave Isaac, 1861.
Folder 11: Goodwyn (Goodwin) Family legal papers, 1847-1851. 4 items.
Folder 12: Goodwyn (Goodwin) Family legal papers, 1852-1861. 5 items.
Folder 13: Acker Family papers, 1787-1825. 4 items.
Folder 14: Abraham Bell papers, 1834-1845. 3 items.
Folder 15: Jordan Family papers, includes letter from O. M. Roberts, 1860-1878. 6 items.
Folder 16: Peyton F. Edwards, receipts, 1869-1870. 4 items.
Folder 17: Charles Chevaillier Estate Administration papers, 1857-1859. 2 items.
Folder 18: 2 items. Document written and signed by Peter Ellis Bean, 1831.
Printed letter of instruction for Mexican War Pension with hand written comments, 1887.
Folder 19: Miscellaneous documents of Nacogdoches county, chiefly concerning land matters, 1835-1860. 10 items.
Folder 20: Miscellaneous documents of other Texas counties, 1851-1876. 4 items.
Folder 21: Miscellaneous non-Texas papers including customs certifications at Port of Philadelphia, 1821-1884. 8 items.
Folder 22: Advertisements of Jesse Rosenfeld Co., New Orleans, 1916. 3 items.
Folder 23: Miscellaneous empty envelopes, 1844-1873. 6 items.
Folder 24: James R. Arnold, correspondence to Arnold, 1856-1877. 4 items.
Folder 25: James R. Arnold, correspondence to Arnold, 1878-1894. Includes Peyton F. Edwards (son-in-law), Charles M. Raguet. 6 items.
Folder 26: James R. Arnold, correspondence with William H. Bonner re: cutting timber for railroad ties, 1890. Includes contract. 4 items.
Folder 27: James R. Arnold, empty envelopes addressed to Arnold, 1878-1893. 20 items.
BOX 3
Folder 1: James R. Arnold, empty envelopes addressed to Arnold, 1894-1900, n.d. 21 items.
Folder 2: James R. Arnold, empty envelopes from J. R. Arnold, 1879, n.d.; envelope addressed to Linnie Arnold, 1895; envelope addressed c/o J. R. Arnold, 1882. 5 items.
Folder 3: James R. Arnold, land papers, 1837-1861, relating to estates of Charles Chevaillier and John D. Gann. Includes original land grant signed by Gov. P. H. Bell. 7 items.
Folder 4: James R. Arnold, land transactions, 1876-188_ . Includes Arnold, Barret & Linn. 4 items.
Folder 5: James R. Arnold, land transactions, 189_, n.d. Notes, surveys, maps of lands held by Arnold, Barret & Linn. 6 items.
Folder 6: James R. Arnold, legal papers re: cattle, slave, land, 1853-1858. Includes William B. Ochiltree, John S. Thorn. 7 items.
Folder 7: Barret & Linn, sale of land to Thomas J. Rusk, 1854. 1 item.
Folder 8: Barret & Linn, indenture of Peter B. and Eliza Fewell, 1854-1855. 2 items.
Folder 9: Arnold, Barret & Linn, agreement to dissolve business co-partnership, 1857. 1 item.
Folder 10: Arnold, Barret & Moore, agreement with tenant farmer Antonio Rivers, 1860. 1 item.
Folder 11: James R. Arnold, financial papers, 1858-1900. Includes promissory notes, receipts, bank draft on Wettermark Bank, bills (including Nacogdoches University). 14 items. Example of a check from A. Wettermark & Son Bankers.
Folder 12: James R. Arnold, 2 items. Mexican War Survivor's pension, filled in, 1887. Widow's pension, not filled in, 1887.
Folder 13: James R. Arnold, letter to Lillian G. Arnold Thurmond from her father-in-law, 1888. 1 item.
Folder 14: James R. Arnold, divorce papers of Lillian G. Arnold Thurmond and Catlett G. Thurmond, 1891. 2 items.
Folder 15: James R. Arnold, correspondence with Peyton F. Edwards re: Lillian Thurmond and adoption of her son Louis, 1891. 5 items.
Folder 16: James R. Arnold, petition to adopt Louis Edward Thurmond and estate papers for Lillian Thurmond, 1890-1893. 7 items.
Folder 17: James R. Arnold, correspondence and legal papers re: changing Louis Thurmond's last name to Arnold, 1897. 5 items.
Folder 18: James R. Arnold, administrator for estate of John Lambert, promissory notes to Lambert, 1848-1859. 9 items.
Folder 19: James R. Arnold, administrator for estate of John Lambert, bill, receipts, and claim against estate of William Goyens by Lambert, 1854-1858. 5 items.
Folder 20: James R. Arnold, administrator for estate of John Lambert, accounts owed to Lambert for services and goods, 1847-1859. 7 items.
Folder 21: James R. Arnold, administrator for estate of John Lambert, accounts owed to Lambert, n.d. 12 items.
Folder 22: James R. Arnold, administrator for estate of John Lambert, estate papers 1854-1860. Pages from account book listing allowed claims, list of lands sold, list of heirs[?], miscellaneous receipts and accounts. 10 items.
Folder 24: Emily ("Emma") Virginia Willis and Ed B. Willis [father], letter, 1920, and empty envelopes, 1885-1931, n.d. 14 items.
Folder 25: Emily V. Willis Lindsey, correspondence to Robert Lindsey [husband], 1917-1919, n.d. 5 items.
Folder 26: Emily V. Willis Lindsey and Robert Lindsey, empty envelopes, 1901-1937. 26 items.
Folder 27: Lettitia Van Lasket, letter to unidentified friends, written from Germantown [Pennsylvania?], 1813. Notes on Acker family on the back. 1 item.
BOX 4
Folder 1: J. Stephens Abbot, Concord, NH, to [Richard?] Parmalee & Coe, Nacogdoches, 1851. 2 items. Bill for two hack passenger wagons, October 7, 1851. Bill for one family wagon, December 10, 1851.
Folder 2: H. S. Crossland, letter to James L. Crossland [brother], 1862, re: Civil War. 1 item.
Folder 3: Charles U. and Lizzy Brady, correspondence to them, 1885-1886. 2 items.
Folder 4: Miscellaneous correspondence, 1855-1897 re: business, land, Vitae Ore medical cure-all. 9 items.
Folder 5: Miscellaneous correspondence, 1874-1957[?], n.d. Post cards, envelopes, some re: bank business. 6 items.
Folder 6: Spanish land grant to Johnston Parmer, 1835. Description of his land, 1840. 2 items.
Folder 7: Spanish land grant of Wiley McJones, 1835. Deeds of sale from Wiley McJones to Richard Sparks and others, 1835-1855. 3 items.
Folder 8: Deeds of land sales, Nacogdoches County, 1838-1848. Theophilus Ellison to John N. Hubert; David Rusk, sheriff, selling abandoned land of Juan de los Santos Coy to Charles M. Gould and land of Pedro Roblo for defaulted taxes to Richard Parmalee; Peter Murphy to John S. Roberts. 4 items.
Folder 9: Land papers, Nacogdoches County, 1857-1866. Deed from David Rusk to John Reid; homestead claim of James R. Kendall; deed from Albert A. Nelson to Haden [H.] Edwards and Thomas R. Buford; land grant to Guadalupe Richards signed by Gov. J. W. Throckmorton. 4 items.
Folder 10: Land papers, Nacogdoches and Shelby County, 188_-1891. Deed from Lycurgus S. Roberts to Giles B. Crain; deed from George F. Ingraham to George H. Weaver; certificate of survey by Shelby County Surveyor John Holt for sale by George Davidson to L. A. Sinclair; incomplete deed from R. H. Lee to Ybarbo. 4 items.
Folder 11: Field notes with survey maps and sketches, 1878-189_, n.d. 10 items.
Folder 12: Field notes and other notes about land, n.d. 15 items.
Folder 13: Legal documents, 1828-1851. Probated will of Gabriel Boyer, Germantown, PA; fragment of estate paper for William G. Logan; testimony that Peter Murphy was a resident of Texas before 1836, signed by John Baptiste Pulvadore and Vital Flores. 3 items.
Folder 14: Legal documents, 1857-1897.
Sale of slave by Asa Yarborough to John S. Thorn; contract for mail carrying transferred from Walter E. C. Mayfield and Emory S. Huston to Mayfield alone: complaint by Margaret Winston against Philip Winston, Marion County; notes on estate of Mary Ella Stoker. 4 items.
Folder 15: Promissory notes, 1855-1872. Nacogdoches County and Shreveport, LA. Includes William B. Ochiltree and several to the firm of McClure & Edwards. 10 items.
Folder 16: Accounts and receipts of Jose' Maria Acosta, 1857-1859. 4 items.
Folder 17: Accounts of W. H. Jordan, Shreveport, LA, 1872-1873. 3 items.
Folder 18: Account and Confederate tax receipt of Thomas H. Lister, 1833, 1861. Account book containing Lister names, 1839 1879. 3 items.Confederate War Tax receipt, May 2, 1862.
Folder 19: Receipts and bills, 1858-1899. 7 items.
Folder 20: C. F. Simmons Vest Pocket Calendar, 1876-1877. Contains information on the weather, medical ailments, prescriptions. Handwritten account of daily expenditures also included. 1 item.
Folder 21: Cotton account of H. M. Payne[?] & Co., Shreveport, LA, 1874. 1 item.
Folder 22: United Daughters of the Confederacy certificate to Uorah L. Cox, 1929. 1 item.
Folder 23: First adhesive postage stamp, Great Britain #1, n.d. 1 item.
Folder 24: K. Lamity's Harpoon magazine, Austin, TX, Sept. 1, 1907. 1 item.
Folder 25: The Houston Chronicle Souvenir Historical Edition. Reprints front pages for April 16, 1912 (sinking of Titanic), November 11, 1918 (Germany surrenders in WWI), May 22, 1927 (Lindberg crossing the Atlantic), May 7, 1937 (Hindenburg disaster), Dec. 8, 1941 (Pearl Harbor), August 14, 1945 (Japanese surrender W.W.II), April 16, 1947 (Texas City explosions), February 20, 1962 (John Glenn orbits earth). 1 item.
BOX 5
Folder 1: Outlaws, The Life and Trial of Frank James, The Wide Awake Library--Special Number, September 23, 1883. 1 item.
Folder 2: Outlaws, facsimile certificates signed by Charles H. Hardin, Gov. of Missouri and by Thomas A. Osburne, Gov. of Kansas re: extradition of Jesse James, 1875. 2 items.
Folder 3: Outlaws, portions of a scrapbook containing articles by William Preston "Bill" Longley, 1877, n.d. 9 items.
Folder 4: Notes, 3 items. One Dollar Republic of Texas Note, 1840.Three Dollars Kelsey Douglass Note, 1840. One Dollar Kelsey Douglass Note, 1840. Folder 5: Billfold with initials J.A.O. and John O'H[?] written on it, containing Confederate money issued by State of Alabama and Richmond, VA, 1863-1864, n.d. 26 items.
February 11, 1864, No. 54337 The Confederate States of America, 5 dollars
June 2, 1862, Third series The Confederate States of America, 2 dollars
April 6, 1863, No. 41966 1st series The Confederate States of America, 50 cents
January 1, 1863, The State of Alabama, 23 cents
January 1, 1863, No. 3567 The State of Alabama, 1 dollar
January 1, 1863, No. 110229 The State of Alabama, 1 dollar
January 1, 1863, No. 17315 The State of Alabama, 1 dollar
January 1, 1863, No. 79033 The State of Alabama, 1 dollar
December 2, 1862, No. 12954 The Confederate States of America, 2 dollars
February 17, 1864, No. 70353 The Confederate States of America, 10 dollars
January 1, 1863, No. 88397 The State of Alabama, 1 dollar
January 1, 1863, No. 3674 The State of Alabama, 1 dollar
January 1, 1863, No. 35336 The State of Alabama, 1 dollar
January 1, 1863, No. 90074 The State of Alabama, 1 dollar
April 6, 186_, No. 103523 The Confederate States of America, 1 dollar
December 2, 1862, No. 5591 The Confederate States of America, 1 dollar
January 1, 1863, No. 35443 The State of Alabama, 1 dollar
January 1, 1863, No. 15337 The State of Alabama, 1 dollar
January 1, 1863, No. 105299 The State of Alabama, 1 dollar
January 1, 1863, No. 84384 The State of Alabama, 1 dollar
January 1, 1863, No. 5435 The State of Alabama, 1 dollar
January 1, 1863, No. 69365 The State of Alabama, 1 dollar
January 1, 1863, No. 26305 The State of Alabama, 1 dollar
February 11, 1864, The Confederate States of America, 5 dollars
April 6, 1863, No. 50522 The Confederate States of America, 2 dollars
Folder 6: Confederate money issued by Alabama, Georgia, and Richmond, VA, 1862-1864. Two bills appear to be facsimiles. Also notes from State Bank of South Carolina, 1855, and from Bank of Black River, Ludlow, VA, 1862. 16 items.
January 1, 1863, No. 58068 The State of Alabama, 50 cents
January 1, 1864, No. 3350 The State of Georgia, 1 dollar
February 1, 1863, No. 8177 The State of Georgia, 10 dollars
February 1, 1863, No. 8254 The State of Georgia, 10 dollars
March 19, 1855, No. 202 The State Bank of South Carolina, 5 dollars
April 6, 1863, 2nd series Confederate States of America, 20 dollars
September 12, 1862, No. 45893 The Confederate States of America, 100 dollars
February 17, 1864, No. 16894 The Confederate States of America, 20 dollars
February 17, 1864, The Confederate States of America, 10 dollars
September 2, 1861, No. 24094, The Confederate States of America, 5 dollars
June 2, 1862, The Confederate States of America, 1 dollar
June 2, 1862, The Confederate States of America, 1 dollar
December 1862, No. 107391 The Confederate States of America, 100 dollars
November 1862, No. 370 Bank of Black River, 10 cents
February 17, 1864, No. 18278 The Confederate States of America, 500 dollars,(REPLICA)
February 17,1864, No. 46410 The Confederate States of America, 20 dollars, (REPLICA)
Folder 7: Fractional currency received for United States postal stamps, 1863-1874, n.d. 22 items.
Folder 8: Carbon of fragment of autobiography of Charles Adolphus Sterne [1924, full typescript available in R. B. Blake Collection v. LXII pp. 333-336]; fragment of religious writing, n.d. 2 items.
Folder 9: Unidentified black & white photograph of small boy and black & white photograph of a woman with same child[?] on a horse, n.d. 2 items.
Folder 10: Crossland family genealogical materials, 1986-1987. 2 items.
In Map Case #4 Seven posters from World War I, 1917-1919, n.d., urging people to buy Liberty Bonds, support the Salvation Army, and conserve food. 7 items.
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