John R. and Jane Harris papers 1814-1869 (Bulk: 1829-1850)

Harris, John, 1798-1849

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Briscoe, Parmenas, 1839-1906

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Parmenas Briscoe, the eldest son of Mary Jane Harris Briscoe and Andrew Briscoe, was born in 1839 in Houston, Texas. Parmenas served in Company 1, 2nd Battalion of the Infantry of Waul's Texas Legion during the Civil War. He ran a sawmill, worked briefly as an agent with Houston East and West Texas Rail Road, and clerked in the Harris County Clerk's office. As the eldest male in the family, Parmenas handled the legal and financial transactions for his immediate and extended family. He died in hi...

Briscoe, Mary Jane Harris, 1819-1903

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Mary Jane Harris was born August 17, 1819, to John Richardson and Jane Birdsall Harris. She married Andrew Briscoe in 1837 in Texas. After Andrew's death in 1849, Mary Jane and her 4 children moved to her father-in-law's plantation in Mississippi. In 1852 she returned to Texas. She was a charter member of the Ladies' Reading Club, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and the Texas State Historical Association. She was active in the Texas Veterans Association. Mary Jane Harris Briscoe died Mar...

Harris, John R., 1790-1829

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John Richardson Harris was born on October 22, 1790, in Cayuga, New York, the son of John Harris and Mary Richardson. On May 13, 1813, he married Jane Birdsall, the daughter of Lewis Birdsall and Patience Lee. They had four children. After meeting Moses Austin, John R. Harris decided to go to Texas in 1824, leaving his family in New York. He gained title to over 4,000 acres of land within present day Harris County. With the help of Francis W. Johnson, he laid out the town of Harrisburg, Texas, a...

Harris, Lewis Birdsall, 1816-1893

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Lewis Birdsall Harris was born in Waterloo, New York on July 1, 1816, the third child of John R. Harris and Jane Birdsall. When his mother left New York for Texas in 1833, he remained at the home of his grandparents until the spring of 1836. Although he arrived in Texas on April 21, he quickly joined the Texian Army. Harris later held government positions as a clerk for both Andrew Briscoe and DeWitt Clinton Harris and served in the military including participating in the Somervell Expedition. O...

Birdsall, Maurice Lee, 1794-1847

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Van Tuyl, Eliza Birdsall, 1799-1869

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Harris, Jane, 1791-1869

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Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836

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Stephen F. Austin, son of Moses Austin, initiated the Anglo-American colonization of Texas by assuming ownership of a land grant given to his father by the Spanish government in 1821. From the description of Austin, Stephen F., papers, 1819-1821. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 20430891 Stephen Fuller Austin was born on November 3, 1793 in Virginia to Maria and Moses Austin. He was educated in Connecticut and at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kent...