WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1836
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T'o THOMAS TOBY AND BROTHER 1 Executive Department, Columbia 26th Oct. 1836
Messrs. T. Toby & Brother Gentlemen, I enclose you letters addressed to Capt. Brown' and Capt Hurd. 3 You will please forward them to your Sub- Agent at New York unless you are aware that those Gentlemen have changed their position since our last advices. It is very desirable to have our little Naval force once more at home, and to confer with the officers in command prior to the adoption of new measures, or the formation of new plans. Sam Houston President. 1 Executive Letter Book No. 1, 127, Texas State Library. 2 Cnptain Jeremiah Brown, Commander of the war schooner Invincible. See Houston's Message to the People, March 31, 1836. 3 William A. Hurd, captain of the schooner Brutus. See Gammel, Laws of Texas, I, 890-892; also, TexaR Historical Quarterly, XII, 165-203, and 1.III, 86-127, for an account of the Texas Navy.
TO THE TEXAS SENATE 1 Executive Department, Columbia, 27 Oct. 1836.
To the Honorable The Senate Gentlemen: The nomination of an Attorney General was in- advertently omitted in my Special Message to you of yesterday. James Collinsworth 2 Esq. was intended to be included in that communication, as nominated to that high Office; and you will be pleased to consider my remarks of that date, as equally applicable to him. Sam Houston 1 Secret Journals of the Senate of the Republic of Texas, 1836-1845, 16. 2 James Collinsworth. See Houston to James Collinsworth, March 13, 1836.
To THOMAS TOBY AND BROTHER 1 Executive Department, Columbia 27th Oct 1836.
Messrs. T. Toby & Bros Gentlemen, You will find in the packages addressed to you from time to time letters addressed to different individuals , residing in different parts of the United States. T'hese I request may be forwarded to their destination without delay, and all letters &c which may be intended for Texas be sent to this place
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