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North Carolina to the Twenty-first Congress of the United States, and then, again served in his State Assembly. He came to Texas in 1835 and settled at Nacogdoches. He was a member of the Texas Constitutional Con- vention of March, 1836, and took a leading part in the framing of the first Texas Constitution, especially in pushing through the resolution on the land problem. He served as Secretary of the Navy during the ad interim gov- ernment, and later was State Senator for the Red River district. He was murdered at his home near Caddo Lake, on March 2, 1842. See E. W. Winkler (ed.), Sec1·et Journals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 204. The Southwestern Histo1·ical Qua1·te1"ly, XXXI, 60-208, passim. Yoakum, His- iory of Texas, II, 74. The Asbm11 Papers, The University of Texas Library. Dictionary of American Biogravhy, XV, 133-134. 3Retson Morris. Munroe Edwards. See E. C. Barker, "The African Slave Trade in Texas," Texas Historical Qua1·terly, VI, 152-153. Thrall, A Pic- torial History of Texas, 532. G. P. Garrison, Texan Diplomatic Con·espond- cnce, I, 520; II, 178, 915, 916. A Texian (1842), The Life of the Celeb1·ated Monroe Edwards.
To GEORGE PoLLETT 1
Nacogdoches Augt. 22, 1836.
Mr. Pollett Sir You will deliver to the Quarter Master Mr. C. H. Sims any public Horses you may have in your possession By Order of Maj. Genl Sam Houston Comr. in chief Jno K. Allen A. D. Camp [Endorsed]: Official Communication from Genl. Sam. Hous- ton Comr. in Chief Aug. 22, 1836 1 Houston Letters, Domestic Correspondence, Texas State Library. 2 George Pollitt was a citizen of Nacogdoches, Texas, as early as 1826. He was a married man who with his wife Martha and two children (Elizabeth Ann and Edgar) had arrived previous to that date. Elizabeth Ann married Charles H. Sims on August 5, 1835, and Edgar married Mary Wootan on November 3, 1842 (marriage records, Nacogdoches County Records). George Pollitt was very active in the business life of Nacogdoches as a merchant, land trader, and owner of a tan yard. In 1830, he bought the mercantile business house of Thomas F. McKinney, who had opened his business in Nacogdches in 1823, and through 1836 he continued to trans- v.ct a large business. After the Texas Revolution, however, he disposed of all his business enterprises except his tan yard, which he continued to operate (on the west bank of Lanana Creek, adjacent to his residence) until 1840. On August 13, 1840, he sold his home and tan yard to Frost Thorn for the consideration of $3,000 (Deed Records, Nacogdoches County, Vol. G, p. 205). Pollitt was active in public affairs as well as in business, for the records show that he was a member of the ayuntamiento of Nacogdoches, and held
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