The Writings of Sam Houston, Volume II

WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1814-1836

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If you can afford me any information on the subject it will be thankfully received. Sam Houston 1 From the Emil Hurja Collection, Washington, D.C. To P. HAGNER 1 H :Reps 6th feby 1824 Dear Sir Inclosed you will find the claim of Col. Abner Potts. You will please examine it and let me know the result, as soon as convenient Your friend P .· Hagner Esq. S Houston 1 From the Emil Hurja Collection, Washington, D.C.

To J oHN C. CALHOUN 1

House of Rept. U. S., Feb. 15th 1824.

To Hon. John C. Calhoun Sir: We beg leave to recommend to your favorable considera- tion for the office of paymaster in the Army, Adam D. Stewart, Esq.,. Mr. Stewart is an active and enterprising man and from the fair character he sustains as well as from his entire capacity to discharge the duties of such a station, we indulge the hope that he may obtain such a situation.

P. Beecher John Scott Sam Houston W. Fouvard R. K. Call James Allison Geo. Cassedy Path Tanelly

Benjamin Ruggles Andrew Jackson Dan'l P. Cook Andrew Stewart Jo Nance L. Edwards

Jas. Wilson John Tod

John Findlay Sam'l McKean Albert H. Tracy H. Johnson David Barton Vivian Edwards

J. T. Johnson I. Stephenson Geo. Plumer 1 From the collection of Mr. W. A. Philpott, Jr., Dallas, Texas. To JOHN c. CALHOUN 1 Nashville, T., 19th Feb. 1824 Dear Sir: Colonel I. W. Byrn of Florence, Alabama, is an applicant for the appointment of sub-agent to the Chickasaw

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