TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
watch the moon and "ken our horn "-resting in the day- If we are not in time for the main battle, we may pick up a '' chunk of a fight" with a straggling party - If this reaches you by the 8th or 10th of Jany, will ·you be kind enough to send me at Nacogdoches $300 of my pay-I owe it, for my summer's expenses- by some safe hand- Your friend H McLeod [Written in margin of first page of document] I can scarcely regret the death of the murdered men, they were killed by only an equal number, and never fired a gun- Every body above here is fated- [Written on back of document] You see by the address of this letter, I have not forgotten late events- Yrs H
[Endorsed] H McLeod
[Addressed]
Clarksville Jan 12th
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Nacogdoches 20 Dec 38 Reed 21 Feb 1839
His Excellency Genl Mirabeau. B. Lamar President Rep of Texas
City of Houston
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Texas
No. 944
1838 Dec. 21, T. TAYLOR TOM. B. LAMAR, [HOUSTON]
Philadelphia Deer 21. 1838
His Excellency M. B Lamar Esqr
Sir, From Ignorance of the proper Functionary, and at the same time knowing that your Excellency feels a deep solicitude in attending to any thing, that will advance the intrest of your young and rising Republic. I therefore feel the less diffidence in troubling you with this communication. I have a newly invented machine for making Brick which has cost me con- siderable in money and time, and as yet reapt no advantage from it, it being finished, and the patent secured. It is a Very valuable improvement in many respects, and particularly so for a new coun- try. As it will with about a 2 Horse power save the daily labour of about thirty hands and make a Vastly superior article, both as it regards beauty and durabily, by being pressed solid, and the surface as if polished. My object in troubling your Excellency is to learn, throug[h] the legitimate channel, what Encouragement I would meet with, If I would introduce it into Texas. I am Old with a large family and slender means and could ,not afford any risk. and at the same time, the improvement would be a matter of very great importance to Every permanent Citizen of Texas, as I would presume Every person looks forward to the day when they
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