WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1836
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My pleasure, or the orders which may come to you from said Department- To provide for Post. Apportion Prisoners.-Will give instructions to Quarter Master to make proposals for pro- VIs1ons, cattle and other needful things.- Secret. Will ap- prehend any prisoners suspected of endeavoring to escape. Sam Houston [ Rubric ] [ Endorsed] : To I. N. Moreland appointed to the Command of the Post of Galveston. 1 Executive Letter Book No. 1, 128, Texas State Library. 2 Isaac N. Moreland was born in Georgia. He came to Texas in the fall of l834, established himeslf at Anahuac, but soon removed to Liberty (Texas Histo1·ical Quarterly, IV, 196), where he served as secretary to the ayuntamiento (Texas Rcrmblican, August 8, 1835). He joined the Texas Army in October, 1835, and served throughout the revolution. At the Battle of San Jacinto he commanded a company of artillery (Com.ptroller's Mili- ta111 Se1·vfr.e Records, Texas State Library). He was a lawyer of consid- erable ability, and in 1839 was made chief justice of Harris County, a position he held at the time of his death, June 9, 1842 (Telegraph and Texas Registe1·, June 15, 1842). For further information, see Wortham, Histo111 of Texas, III, 307. Rusk, Letters (:MSS), The University of Texas Library. Dixon and Kemp, Heroes of San Jacinto, 75.
To THOMAS TOBY AND BROTHER 1
Executive Department, Columbia, 1st Novr. 1836.
Messrs T. Toby & Brother Gent. You will find enclosed a letter addressed to Hon!. James Collingsworth, which I desire to have sent to him at Washington, D. C. with all despatch. The Cabinet is fully formed and consists of Stephen F. Austin: Secty of State, H. Smith 2 Secty of Treasury, Thomas J. Rusk: Secty of War, S. Rhodes Fisher 2 Secty of Navy & James Collinsworth 2 Attorney General. You will correspond with the Secretary of State in future as your duties will come more immediately under his supervision, and when occasion may require it with other heads of Depart- ments. If anything transpires which you choose to make known to me immediately I hope you will not withhold it. I shall be pleased at all times to hear from you and to receive all public intelligence which you shall think proper to send. And in my turn I will take the liberty to .address my correspondence to you for transmission as heretofore.
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