Cumings family papers, 1824-1926.

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Cumings family papers, 1824-1926.

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Correspondence, legal documents, financial documents, maps, personal papers, printed material, photographs, and artifacts, relating chiefly to Samuel A. Cumings (1827-1885), a businessman living near Bellville, Tex., but also relating to other family members, particularly his children. Much of the material pertains to family lands in Austin and Brazoria counties and to lengthy legal battles over rights to the property. Financial documents relate to routine business and personal transactions and include memorandum books, ledgers, daybooks, and account books, most of them kept by Samuel A. Cumings, and the earliest of which predate his return to Texas as an adult in 1847. Maps include both ms. and printed items, the most significant of which is a ms. map of Texas, apparently by Stephen F. Austin, which is similar to those done by Austin in preparation for the publication of his 1830 map and which includes a delineation of colonies and notes in the hand of Austin's secretary, Samuel May Williams. Also includes a small amount of material relating to the Stickney family, including a family Bible, letters, drawings, printed material, and photographs.

5.5 linear ft.

Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library

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Cumings family.

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Residents of Austin County, Tex. From the description of Cumings family papers, 1824-1926. (Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library). WorldCat record id: 70950038 ...

Cummings family.

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Cumings, Samuel A. (Samuel Anthony), 1827-1885

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Williams, Samuel May, 1795-1858

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Stickney family.

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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...