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WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1837
At Lamar's request, he later wrote out a detailed account of the efforts to have Austin released from imprisonment in Mexico. In April, 1836, David G. Burnet appointed Grayson attorney general of the government ad interim, and in this position, as Attorney General for Texas, he signed the Treaty of Velasco. In 1838 he became the administration candidate for the presidency, running against Lamar. An unfortunate coincidence -the fact that Grayson had a distant cousin in Kentucky by the name of Peter ,~.r. Grayson, a reprobate who had deserted a family-gave Lamar and his supporters an opportunity to represent the doings of this distant cousin as the conduct of the Peter W. Grayson of Texas. Imbittered and grieved by the untrue and scurrilous attacks that were being made against him, and realizing that because of them his race would probably end in de- feat, Grayson committed suicide on July 9, 1838, at Bean's Station in East Tenness.:!e. Among his papers a statement was found in which Grayson stated that he had suffered from attacks of insanity prior to 1830, but had been well and of sound mind since that time until a few months before his death; he stated that he felt his old malady returning with double its former fury. See the Petc1· W. Grayson Pa.pers, Rosenberg Library, Gal- veston. Horner S. Thrall, A Picto1·ial History of Texas, 546. Wortham, History of Texas, II, 147-150; III, 329-336. Lamar Papers, II, 164, 171- 175, 196-198. William C. Binkley, Official Correspondence of the Texan Revo- lution, I and II, passim. A CERTIFICATE CONCERNING PEYTON S. WYATT'S SERVICES 1 Houston 26 Apl. 1837. This is to certify that Peyton S, Wyatt, 2 a Captajn in the Auxiliary Army of Texas, was mustered_into service on the 27th Decem. 1835, and that his services commenced on the 1st day of December, that he is entitled to settlement accordingly, as that was the day he passed the Sabine, and was entitled to an honor- able discharge on the 15th of March 1836; and to that effect he is hereby honorably discharged, and entitled to all the Bounties
and benefits accruing as such under the Laws. Given under my hand this 26th April, 1837.
Sam Houston, Comd. in Chief. [Endorsed] : #950 $205.50 Peyton S. Wyatt filed 26th April 1837 Examined same day admitted to audit for $205.50 Mili- tary 3 months 15 days 1st Dec 1836 to 26th Apl 1837 No. draft 1280 M draft delivered J. M. Moody 3 Auditor.
1 Compt1-oller's Military Servfr.e Records, Texas State Library. 2 See Houston to Henry Smith, December 26, 1836. 3 See Houston to the Texas Senate, December 20, 1836.
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