1835 Census, Residents of Texas, PREFACE

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RESIDENTS OF TEXAS, 1782-1836
COPYRIGHT 1984. Transcribed & Reprinted by The TXGenWeb Project with permission
The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, 
801 South Bowie Street, San Antonio, Texas 78205
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 84-080376, ISBN: 0-911317-33-3

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PREFACE

The Translations of Statistical and Census Reports of Texas, 1782-1836, and 
Sources Documenting the Black in Texas, 1603-1803, housed in the University of 
Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, is a derivative work based 
upon seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century Spanish primary historical 
sources and other existing works.

The research project began in 1971 during the administration of Institute of 
Texan Cultures Director R. Henderson Shuffler, now deceased. The original 
intent of the research was to prepare a draft work copy containing information 
to satisfy the basic needs of the Institute of Texan Cultures scholastic 
publication program on the Black in Texas prior to 1836.

The researched documentation suggested a natural division of the work into 
three categories: statistical, census, and general information (general 
manuscript series). Since it was impractical to extract only the information 
concerning persons of Black origin, translation of the complete statistical and 
census reports was accomplished. This material includes demographic, 
statistical and qualitative data on many ethnic groups, and individual families 
can be traced for several generations. It also documents the existence of a 
large number of Blacks among the Spanish and Indian population in Texas long 
before the influx of Anglo Americans colonizers.

The general manuscript series, consisting in large part of translated 
summaries, documents the Black's experience in Texas. The translation of this 
series was not brought to completion. in 1973 the project ended after an 
evaluation of the work revealed that the intended scope had been surpassed and 
that the-work had the potential for a scholarly publication.

To extend the research opportunites of the translated resources# Institute of 
Texan Cultures Executive Director Jack R. Maguire proposed a microfilm 
publication of the work. In accepting the proposed publication of the 
collection, the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation recommended that the present 
organization be retained and that the draft work copy be published with only 
minor editorial revisions. The foundation also recommended that facsimiles of 
the original sources be provided for the statistical and census reports series 
for the convenience of corroborating translations. No facsimiles were provided 
for the general information group.

The microfilm reproduction of the approximately 4,500 pages of this collection 
consists of the followings

Roll 1.     Statistical Reports of Texas, 1783-1820,
            and Census Reports of Texas, 1782-1806
Roll 2.     Census Reports of Texas, 1807-1834
Roll 3.     Census Reports of Texas, 1835, and
            General Manuscript Series, 1603-1803