R.B. Blake collection, 1528-1941.

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R.B. Blake collection, 1528-1941.

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Typed transcripts and translations made by Blake of official records and personal papers found in the Office of the County Clerk in Nacogdoches, in the Nacogdoches Archives, in the General Land Office of Texas, and in the University of Texas Archives (including the Bexar Archives). Included in the collection are legal papers, census records, jury verdicts, promissory notes, summonses, election returns, bills of sale for slaves, civil and criminal proceedings, and genealogical and historical material on East Texas subjects.

93 v.

Stephen F. Austin State University, East Texas Research Center

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Blake, Robert Bruce, 1877-1955

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Robert Bruce Blake (1877-1955) was born in Moscow, Texas. He owned and published a newspaper, "Newsboy", in Jasper, Texas. In 1925 Blake and his family moved to Nacogdoches, where he became county clerk. Blake was deeply interested in the history of Spanish and Mexican Texas, and spent the years between 1925 and his death in 1955, compiling translations and transcriptions of government and family papers that document that time and area. From the description of Blake, Robert Bruce, pa...