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Contains 58 Results:

Envelop containing Danish Passport and Visa, 1840

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection spans from 1840 to 1979 and includes correspondence, legal and government documents, receipts, and newspaper clipping relating to Richard Tuite Hanson and his family. This collection also includes several documents signed by Louisiana Governors Francis T. Nicholls, Louis A. Wiltz, and Samuel D. McEnery, as well as United States Presidents Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison.

Dates: 1840

Copy of civil marriage certificate of Richard T. Hanson Esq. and Miss Barbara Calderwood, Oct. 25, 1853

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Marriage performed by Emilie Tartet, Justice of the Peace, at Mr. Richard Taylor's Plantation in St. Charles Parish. Attached is a receipt, signed C. S. Martin, Clerk of District Court Band, and Recordation of marriage act.

Dates: Oct. 25, 1853

Power of Attorney given by Harry McCall, appointing R.T. Hanson, Mar. 2, 1864

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 3
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Superintendent and Principal Overseer of his plantation in Ascension Parish, La.

Dates: Mar. 2, 1864

Two copies of agreement entered between Dominique Bouligny, and Richard T. Hanson and Bernard Lemann concerning a plantation bought by them from Jacob Lemann, 1870-1877

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 4
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Agreement stipulates all expenses of operation of the plantation to be shared equally, with any profits, after payment of mortgage, also to be shared equally; Hanson, in consideration of having use of the dwelling on the property, to manage the pllantation free of charges. Agreement made from August 3, 1870- January 1, 1877.

Dates: 1870-1877

Itemized bill from R. Fletcher, Aug. 7, 1873

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Donaldsonville, LA., to the Building Committee, Asension Episcopal Church, for building the church. Paid by R. Fletcher.

Dates: Aug. 7, 1873

U.S. Naturalization paper (certified copy) of Richard T. Hanson, Oct. 5, 1876

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Native of Danish West Indies. Signed by H.O. Maher, Judge of the Ascension Parish Court.

Dates: Oct. 5, 1876

Copy of a poem, "Transition", Aug. 6, 1886

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 7
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Written on stationery of Cocke, Denman & Franklin, Attorneys, San Antonio, Bexar Co., Texas. (Probably composed by Thos H. Frankling, member of firm, and suitor of Maggie Hanson)

Dates: Aug. 6, 1886

Receipts for yearly premiums on life insurance policy in names of Barbara and Sarah Hanson, 1870-1880

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection spans from 1840 to 1979 and includes correspondence, legal and government documents, receipts, and newspaper clipping relating to Richard Tuite Hanson and his family. This collection also includes several documents signed by Louisiana Governors Francis T. Nicholls, Louis A. Wiltz, and Samuel D. McEnery, as well as United States Presidents Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison.

Dates: 1870-1880

(a) Receipt for first payment on life insurance (b) Renewal certificates issued by New Orleans Insurance Association, 1875-1890

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 9
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(a) Taken on R.T Hanson Esq. Dated July 12, 1875 (b) New Orleans Insurance Association on Policy #35284 for R.C. Hanson- one for term Nov. 7,1886 to Nov. 7, 1887; other for Nov. 7, 1889 to Nov.7, 1890.

Dates: 1875-1890

Receipts for Municipal Taxes, 1889-1894

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 10
Scope and Contents

In Donaldsonville on property owned by R.T Hanson, Sr. for years

Dates: 1889-1894