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WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1829
1829
[SEAL]
THE COMMISSION OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH WRIGHT 1
STATE OF TENNESSEE TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS--GREET- INGS: KNOW YE, That reposing special trust arid confidence in the patriotism, valor, conduct and fidelity of JOSEPH WRIGHT of the county of Wilson, We do commission him Captain in the 72d Regiment of the Militia of this State: and we do authorize and empower him to execute and fulful the duties of Captain in the said R€giment, agreeably to law, and the Rules and Directions of Military Discipline; To have and to hold the rank and command of Captain in the said Regiment, during good behaviour, with all the powers, privileges, and emoluments thereto of right appertaining. And the said Joseph Wright is hereby required to obey his superior officers' lawful orders and commands, and all officers and privates under his command are to be obedient to him as aforesaid. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, We have caused the Great Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed. Witness, SAM HOUSTON, Esquire, our GOVERNOR and Com- mander in Chief, at Nashville, the 9th day of February in the fifty-third year of our Independence, and in the year 1829. BY THE GOVERNOR, SAM HOUSTON [Rubric] Daniel Graham, Secretary of State. 1 Original document in possession of Mrs. L. E. Shelby, a granddaughter of Joseph Wright. :?Joseph Wright (December 10, 1798-December 4, 1898), the son of Lemuel and Charity (Rix) Wright, was born in Nash County, North Carolina. His parents moved to middle Tennessee in 1800, where he was reared and Inter studied and practiced medicine, at and near Columbia, :Maury County. He married Rachel Hamilton, the daughter of William and Margaret (Hugeley) Hamilton. Their children were Robert P. Wright, and Louisa and Frances, twins (Mrs. George Walling, Senior, and l\:lrs. F. M. Gibson). In 1852 Dr. Wright and his family moved to Texas settling in Travis County, about two and one-half miles northeast of Austin. After his removal to TC"xns Dr. Wright retired from the active practice of medicine and devoted himseH to farming and surveying. He had engaged in the latter profession earliei in life, having assisted in surveying the site of the town of Tallahassee, Florida, and while living near Austin he is said to have run the lines of the
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