wa~ compeh·d to live where the courts are holden, my time will expire on the Isl of January 1836. - 1f I had thought of ever being calk•cl upon to preside at a respectable court, at the Lime l was skciting 011 the Ice with my playmates, the time could have been better employed in preparing my mind for the Lask; - you will please present my kindest a ff cclions lo all my relation's particularly lo Aunts, Susan, and Phelps, for whome I have great regard, don! forget lo write. - believe me your Affectionate Brother A. Brigham P.S. You will direct lo me as before, only al Columbia instead of Brazoria - lo Lhe care of Henry Richardson Dept. Marshall N. Orleans and put them into the Posloffice and I shall get them without so much delay. - (Addressed:] Mr. Stephen Howe yr B
Marlborough ~las.sachusells second Parrish
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[HANKS to RUEG]
(James S. Hanks, Alcalde, San Augustine, lo Henry Rueg, Political Chief, Nacogdoches, March 8, 1835, concerning the state militia.]
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[GUTIERREZ to BUTLER]
Palace of the Federal Government, March 9, 1835. The undersigned, Secretary of State and of the Department of Relations, has the honor to communicate to the charge de'affaires of the United States of North America that it is hut this clay he received his note of the 24th February ultimo, in which he is pleased lo reply to that of this Department relative to the emigration that some tribes of Indians of the said States are
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