Blake, Robert Bruce, papers, 1690-1959, 1969-1970.

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Blake, Robert Bruce, papers, 1690-1959, 1969-1970.

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Transcriptions made by Robert B. Blake (1877-1955), county clerk, of official records and personal papers found in the office of the County Clerk in Nacogdoches, the Nacogdoches Archives in the Texas State Archives, the General Land Office of Texas, and in the University of Texas Archives, concerning the history of Spanish and Mexican Texas.

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