Tannehill, Jesse C., Papers 1832-1867

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Tannehill, Jesse C., Papers 1832-1867

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Composed of a typescript of correspondence, legal and financial documents, and poems, the Jesse C. Tannehill Papers, 1832-1867, chronicle Tannehill’s experiences as a landowner in Bastrop and Travis counties, Texas.

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Tannehill, W. P.

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Tannehill, Jesse C., 1797-1863

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Born in Kentucky, Jesse Cornelius Tannehill (1797-1863), moved with his wife, Jane Richardson, and two children from Tennessee to Matagorda County, Texas, in 1827. A year later, the family relocated to Bastrop County where they lived in a tent comprised of buffalo hides and pinewood until the town of Bastrop was established. As one of the first landowners in Bastrop, Tannehill was appointed judge in 1831. In 1836, the family fled to Huntsville, and eventually La Grange, after repeat...