- Republic of Texas: Poll Lists For 1846
by Marion Day Mullins
This book lists the names and counties of residence of approximately
18,000 Texas taxpayers. Either a white male resident over the age of
twenty-one or a female head of a household, the Texas residents listed
here paid a "poll" tax of one dollar. This list is an especially
valuable resource since federal censuses for Texas didn't begin until
1850. Compiled from the original tax rolls housed in the Texas State
Archives, this 1846 poll list is the closest thing available to a complete
census of the period. As an approximation of the entire adult male population
of the state, the Poll List for 1846 is essentially a reconstructed
census for Texas.
- Austin Colony Pioneers, Including History Of Bastrop, Fayette,
Grimes, Montgomery And Washington Counties, Texas
by Worth Stickley Ray
Settled in the early 1820s, Austin Colony was comprised largely of the
five present day counties of Bastrop, Fayette, Grimes, Montgomery, and
Washington. Here you'll find biographical and genealogical sketches
of the pioneers and early settlers of those counties. Since Washington
County was the "port of entry" to the Austin Colony, much
of the book's focus is on that County. Often, you'll learn the following
information about an individual included in Austin Colony Pioneers:
references to their arrival in Texas, place of settlement, military
experience, career highlights, names of family members, place of residence,
place and date of death, place of origin outside of Austin Colony, and
details of any participation in famous battles such as San Jacinto and
the Alamo.
- Ancestor Lineages of Members: Texas Society/National Society
Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century
by Jeanne Mitchell Jordan Tabb
This compilation of lineages was extracted from the official application
papers of Texas Society members. It consists of an alphabetical list
of the proven ancestors of the National Society Colonial Dames Seventeenth
Century upon whose ancestry Texas Society memberships are based. For
each of the 2,000 individuals included here, you'll find: name(s) of
spouse(s), names of children, names and membership numbers of Society
members linked to that ancestor, and dates and places of birth, marriage,
and death.
- Kentucky Colonization in Texas: A History of the Peters Colony
by Seymour V. Connor
This is the definitive historical and genealogical account of the 1847-48
settlement of the Peter's Colony in Northeast Texas. For each of the
2,000 settlers, you'll learn: name, marital status, occupation, age,
year of migration to Texas, county of settlement, state of birth, and
state from which he migrated.
- Character Certificates in the General Land Office of Texas
by Gifford White
The records that make up this book were assembled from local land office
records after Texas gained its independence from Mexico. Filed in the
General Land Office in Austin, the Character Certificates help to establish
the following information about approximately 5,000 early Texas settlers:
date and place of settlement, place of origin, and names of family members.
- Stephen F. Austin's Register of Families
by Villamae Williams
Under the terms of an 1824 colonization law, Texas settlers such as
Stephen Austin were required to record vital information on every settler
to a new area. Here you'll find vital information on approximately 3,000
Anglo-American settlers of Mexican Texas. This information includes:
name, marital status, place of birth or last residence, and occupation.
Austin and his secretary maintained these records even after a full
Mexican local government was established. The entries continued through
February 1836, less than a week before the signing of the Texas Declaration
of Independence. Prior to their compilation in this book, these records
were accessible only at the General Land Office in Austin.
- A New Land Beckoned: German Immigration To Texas, 1844-1847
by Chester W. Geue and Ethel H. Geue
A compilation of original source material on the settlement of Germans
in Texas from 1844 to 1847, here you will find lists of ships from Germany
and the United States as well as indication of the Germans they brought
to Texas. For each of the more than 4,000 individuals listed, you'll
learn: age, names of accompanying family members, place of residence
in Europe, and dates of departure and arrival.
- New Homes in a New Land: German Immigration to Texas, 1847-1861
by Ethel H. Geue
This work is essentially a compilation of information gleaned from 105
passenger lists of ships that arrived at Galveston between the years
1847 and 1861. For each of the 5,600 individuals listed, you'll learn
age, family, residence in Europe, name of ship, date of departure from
Germany, date of arrival in Texas, and the name of the Texas county
in which the immigrant settled. In addition to the lists of immigrants,
this work includes a brief history of German immigration to Texas as
well as the names and descriptions of some of the Germans who were in
Texas before it was a Republic. New Homes in a New Land is the
sequel to the author's A New Land Beckoned and brings the story
of the German immigration to Texas up to the time of the Civil War.
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