WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1838
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20, 1836, President Houston nominated him the first chief justice of Nacogdoches County, the Senate confirming the nomination on the same day. In 1839, Lamar nominated him district attorney, but the nomination was rejected by the Senate. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he gave five sons to the Confederate army, one of whom, William, never returned. He died at his home in San Augustine in 1865. See George L. Crocket, Two Centuries in East Texas, 98, 100. E. W. Winkler (ed.), Stcret Jounzals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1886-1845, 113-114, 136, 143-144. S. H. Dixon, Men Who 1lfode Texas Free, 203-207. E. W. Winkler (ed.), Jounials of the Secession Conve,ntion, 413. Birth and death dates from tombstone, San Augustine (courtesy of R. B. Blake, Nacogdoches, Texas). ~Shelby Corzine. See Houston Proclaims an election for San Augustine District, March 11, 1837. 5 James Wells was born in North Carolina, in 1817. He served in the Texas army from March 15, to October 2, 1836, and was a member of Captain Henry Karnes's company of scouts. After the revolution, James Wells located at Houston. On July 30, 1836, he married Mary Jane Earle. He died in November, 1840, and is buried in a cemetery of Houston. See Comptroller's Milita:ry Service Reco1·ds, Texas State Library. Dixon and _Kemp, He,·oes of, San Jacinto, 322. 0 Alexander A. Horton. See Alexander A. Horton's discharge, January 30, 1837. •John G. Love was one of the early settlers of San Augustine; he was one of the primary judges of the district, and in 1835, was given the par- ticular duty of enrolling the volunteers who passed through San Augustine. In this position he enrolled several companies from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia. In 1837, Houston nominated him as the customs collector· of Gaines Ferry on the Sabine, and the nomination was confirmed. See Crocket, Two Cent11ries in East Texas, 124, 178, 186. Gammel, Laws of Ttxas, I, 542. E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Journals of the Senate, Republ·ic of Texas, 1886-1845, 54-55. 8 R. C. Doom was a collector of customs on the Sabine. 0 See Houston to D. C. Barrett, January 2, 1836. 10 Asa Brigham. See Houston to the Senate, December 20, 1836. 11 Kelsey Douglas. See Houston's Appointment of Indian Commissioners, November 12, 1836. 12 General Memucan Hunt. See Appointment of Commissioners to the United States, December 31, 1836.
October, 1838 To HENRY RAGUET 1
Sublets Octr 8th 1838.
My Dear Colonel In arranging my business for departure to Houston I discovered that some papers deposited either in a trunk or bundle at your House, are necessary in the arrangement of my business. I therefore request of you if you please to have the goodness to brake open the trunk & with all the papers con- tained in it, I wish you to send the bundle which is tied up to me.
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