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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 1044
1839 Feb. 5, EDWIN WALLER, VELASCO, [TEXAS], TO M[IRABEAUl B [UONAPARTE] LAMAR, HOUSTON, [TEXAS] Application for appointment as government agent under the law for the location of the seat of government. L. S. (by proxy.) 1 p.
No. 1045
1839 !Feb. 6, J. B. LYNCH, CARROLL COUNTY, LOUISIANA, TO M[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, [HOUSTON], TEXAS Personal affairs; inquiry regarding the procedure necessary to adjust his land business in Texas. A. L. S. 3 p.
No. 1046
1839 Feb. 6, J.B. LYNCH, CARROLL COUNTY, LOUISIANA, · TO - TAYLOR, -, TEXAS Personal business connected with the settlement of land claims. A. L. S. 2 p. No.. 1047
1839 Feb. 6, CITIZENS OF FRANKLIN. PE.TITION.
Franklin Robertson County February 6th 1839 At a large and respectable meeting of the Citizens of this place after going through a routine of resolutions &c., &c., It was ordered by . a unanimous voice that the County Clerk Harrison Owen thorough the medium of a letter transmit to your Excellency the true situation of our present distressed condition hoping you in ans- wer to be same may give us at least some advice "\Ve are perhaps fa[r]ther North than any Town in the Republic that of Fort Houston excepted which is suplied with a guard of Two Hundred men We about twenty families in this place have commenced on last summer too late to make a crop we have our provision to haul at least tw@ty five miles and it appears the Indians are determined to take the Our fronteer we have at least twenty Widows in this County and ¾ths. of theiT husbands have been killed by the Indians besides young Men Women and Children tlie Indians were heard on Sonday last about Eight miles North of us had we our provisions at this place we might do much better We however are determined to stay (if possible) until we ascertain whether we get
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