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men, he joined the Army of the Republic of the Rio Grande at San Patricio (Brown, II, 173-174). After the termination of that unsuccessful campaign, he returned to Texas, and was elected captain in the Somervell campaign of 1842. When Somervell abandoned the idea of invading Mexico, a group of his officers and men refused to follow him back to the interior of Texas, and reorganized themselves to carry out the original plan. Fisher was elected to command them and thus became the head of the Mier Expedition. He was severely wounded at Mier, was made a prisoner, and with his com- panions, was carried to Mexico. He was released from prison in 1843. He died at his home in Jackson County in 1845. See Yoakum, History of Texas, II, 114, 290, 371; also Thrall, .A Pictorial History of Tex<ts, 539. Also see Dixon and Kemp, Heroes of San Jacinto, 253. William C. Binkley, Official Correspondence of the Texan Revolution, I, 39, 239, 477, 499-500. 3 Bartlett D. McClure was a member of the Gonzales Committee of Safety in 1835 (Brown, I, 290), and was appointed Chief Justice of Gonzales County on December 20, 1836. See E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Journals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1836-1845, 34. ELECTION PROCLAMATION FOR COLORADO COUNTY, MARCH 11, 1837 1 Be it known that I, Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas do by virtue of the power in me vested hereby order and direct that the 17th day of April next, there shall be an election held in the County of Colorado for a Representative in Congress, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Hon- orable J. G. Robertson 2 And it is hereby further ordered that the Hon William Meni- fee,3 Chief Justice of the County of Colorado, be and he is hereby commanded to hold said election for a Representative in Con- gress on the day above named And he the said William Menifee is hereby directed and com- manded to appoint the Judges and clerks for each precinct who shall be qualified by him or some other Justice of the Peace for said County The returns from each precinct is to be made by the Judges thereof to the said William Menifee within four days after the election Done at Columbia this eleventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven and of the Independence of Texas the second Sam Houston J. Pinckney Henderson, Secy of State 1P-roclamation of the Presidtnts, Republic of Texas; also, Documents wider tlte Great Seal, Record Book, 37, 8-9, Texas State Library. zNo further biographical data have been found concerning J. G. Robertson. swilliam Menifee, or Menefee (correct spelling) was born March 28, 1796, in the State of Tennessee, and was educated for the law. In 1827 he moved
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