Robert Bruce Blake papers
Scope and Contents
Ninety-seven volumes of this material consist of typewritten transcriptions made by Blake (1877-1955) of official records and personal papers found in the Office of the County Clerk in Nacogdoches, in the Nacogdoches Archives located in the Texas State Archives, in the General Land Office of Texas, and in The University of Texas Archives, much of the material having been translated from the Spanish by Blake and others. The purpose of the enterprise, to which Blake devoted a major part of his life, was to prepare a definitive documentary history of that portion of Spanish and Mexican Texas bordered by the present city of San Antonio on the west and by Nacogdoches on the east. Types of material transcribed include letters, literary productions, legal papers, financial papers, census records, subpoenas, jury verdicts, receipts, petitions, account papers, warrants, promissory notes, affidavits, powers of attorney, summonses, election returns, bills of slave sales, commissions, general bills of sale, resolutions, orders, civil-suit proceedings, criminal proceedings, marriage contracts, lists of jurors, grand-jury venires, proclamations, bonds, minutes, writs, certificates, field notes, broadsides, maps, and muster rolls. A calendar has been prepared for these volumes.
Other materials include personal papers of Blake (correspondence, speeches, literary productions, financial records, notes, certificates, memorabilia, and miscellaneous), various documents used by Blake as historical sources for his productions (land records, transcripts of archival materials, biographical files, letters, historical accounts, diaries, military and civil government documents, newspaper clippings, and others, many of them photostatic copies of transcripts), and papers related to his career as a county clerk and court reporter (1914-1955) in Nacogdoches (1925-1942) and Austin (1943-1955), which include typed transcripts of court cases and instructions to juries.
Dates
- Creation: 1690 - 1959
- Creation: 1969 - 1970
Creator
- Blake, Robert Bruce, 1877-1955 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
There are no use restrictions on this collection. Publisher is responsible for complying with copyright law.
Extent
21.42 Linear Feet : manuscript, typescript, printed
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Ninety-seven volumes of this material consist of typewritten transcriptions made by Blake (1877-1955) of official records and personal papers found in the Office of the County Clerk in Nacogdoches, in the Nacogdoches Archives located in the Texas State Archives, in the General Land Office of Texas, and in The University of Texas Archives, much of the material having been translated from the Spanish by Blake and others.
Subject
- DeWitt Clinton Lodge No. 29 (Jasper) (Organization)
- Gonzales Volunteers (undifferentiated) (Organization)
- Milam Lodge No. 2 (Nacogdoches) (Organization)
- Mission San Francisco de la Espada (San Antonio, Tex.) (Organization)
- Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo (San Antonio, Tex.) (Organization)
- Mission San Juan Capistrano (San Antonio, Tex.) (Organization)
- Nacogdoches University (Nacogdoches, Tex.) (Organization)
- New Birmingham Development Company (Organization)
- Nuestra Senora de la Purisma Concepcion de Acuna Mission (Organization)
- Premier Royalty Company (Organization)
- San Augustin de Ahumada, Presidio of (Organization)
- San Fernando Cathedral (San Antonio, Tex.) (Organization)
- San Javier Mission (Tucson, Arizona) (Organization)
- Santa Rosa del Alcazar, Mission of (Organization)
- Santa Rosa del Alcazar, Presidio of (Organization)
- Crain (Family) (Family)
- Hamilton (Family) (Family)
- Blake, Robert Bruce, 1877-1955 (Person)
- Ford, John Salmon (Person)
- Taylor, Charles S. (Charles Stanfield), 1808-1865 (Person)
- Horton, Alexander, 1810-1894 (Person)
- Grant, James, 1793-1836 (Person)
- Elguézabal, Juan Bautista, 1741-1805 (Person)
- Edwards, Haden, 1771-1849 (Person)
- Houston, Sam, 1793-1863. (Person)
- Raguet, Henry, 1796-1877 (Person)
- Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836 (Person)
- Bean, Peter Ellis, 1783-1846 (Person)
- Cordero y Bustamante, Manuel Antonio (Person)
- Logan, William G. (Person)
- McKinney, Thomas Freeman, 1801-1873 (Person)
- Músquiz, Ramón approximately 1797- (Person)
- Sublett, Philip Allen, 1802-1850 (Person)
- Thorn, Frost, 1793-1854 (Person)
- Allen, Augustus Chapman (Person)
- Allen, John Kirby (Person)
- Arnold, Hayden S. (Person)
- Bastrop, Baron Felipe Enrique Neri de (Person)
- Benton, Thomas Hart (Person)
- Blair, John (Person)
- Cabello, Domingo (Person)
- Carter, Carrie B. (Person)
- Cavallero de Croix, _____ (Person)
- Chambers, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1865 (Person)
- Coy, Antonio (Person)
- Crockett, George L. (Person)
- De Solis, Gaspar Jose (Person)
- Dill, James (Person)
- Ferris, Warren Angus (Person)
- Friend, Llerena, 1903-1995 (Person)
- Goyens, William (Person)
- Hall, G. Martel (Person)
- Hancock, Edward (Person)
- Hardin, Augustine Blackburn (Person)
- Hertz, Hyman (Person)
- Hixson, J. S. (Person)
- Hotchkiss, Archibald, 1794-1882 (Person)
- Huston, Almanzon (Person)
- Ibarvo, Gil Antonio (Person)
- Irion, Robert A. (Robert Anderson), 1804-1861 (Person)
- Lee, Isaac (Person)
- Lloyd, Elijah (Person)
- Madero, Jose Francisco (Person)
- Magee, John (Person)
- Mayfield, J. E. (Person)
- Menard, Michel Branamour (Person)
- Moore, R. Woods (Person)
- Muñoz, Manuel (Person)
- Nava, Pedro de (Person)
- Pollitt, George (Person)
- Priest, Mimagan (Person)
- Quin, Michael (Person)
- Quirk, Edmund (Person)
- Ripperdá, Juan María Vicencio, Barón de, -1780 (Person)
- Roberts, John S. (Person)
- Rose, Louis (Person)
- Rueg, Henry (Person)
- Salcedo, Manuel Maria de (Person)
- Salcedo y Salcedo, Nemesio, 1754-1814? (Person)
- Sanchez, Jose Maria (Person)
- Sims, Charles H. (Person)
- Spradley, Dunk (Person)
- Sterne, Nicolas Adolphus (Person)
- Townsend, H. J. (Person)
- Padilla, Juan Antonio,, ....-1839 (Person)
- Status
- Ready To Publish
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History Repository
2300 Red River Street
Austin TX 78712
