WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1842
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To Lms SANCHEzl
City of Houston, July 6th 1842.
lVIr. Luis Sanchez :z
lVIY FRIEND- I wish you to go with Col. Scott, and the other commissioners. I send this by lVIr. Stroud,3 and you will go with them as Interpreter to the commission. I will see you paid so soon as we have .money to pay you. Mr. Stroud will pay your expenses on the trip; and you know I always keep my promises to those who serve the government, when I am able to do so. You will only talk such things as are told you to say. I rely upon you, because you are a good man and prudent. You will be wise. Sam Houston. 1 The original letter is the property of Mrs. Esther Carvajal, San Antonio, Texas. Official copies in Papers on Indian Affairs,· and Exec1itive Record Book, No. 40, pp. 109-110, Texas State Library. :?Luis Sanchez was a Mexican-Indian who was also a Texas citizen, and served from 1836 to 1850, from time to time, as an interpreter to the Kechi, the Caddos, the Tawacanas, the Ioni, the Delawares, the Chickasaws, and the Cherokees. He did valuable service for Texas. See E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Jounrnls of the Senate, Re1mblic of Texas, 1886-1845, p. 79, 293. 3 Beden Stroud lived at Stroud's Station on the upper Brazos. This station was a government trading station for trade with the Indians, and for the more important purpose of keeping in touch with the various Indian tribes, in order to keep them on friendly terms with the Texans. Beden Stroud did fine work among the red men for the Texas Government. His brother Ethan Stroud was also active among the Indians, both as a trader and as a pacifier. Bed~:m Stroud was a senator from the district of Milam and Robertson in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Congresses of the Republic. He nearly always wrote his name "B. Stroud," but on more important docu- ments it is signed "Beden Stroud." The name, however, is sometimes found "Binoni Stroud," which signature is an error and never used by the man himself. See E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secl"et Journals of the Senate, Re1niblic of Texas, 1880-1845, pp. 112, 134, 182; also Papers on hldimi Affafrs, Texas State Library; and Houston to Beden Stroud, April 17, 1843. TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 Executive Department, City of Houston, 6th July, 1842. To the Honorable, the House of Representatives: I have the honor to lay before your Honorable Body, in com- pliance with a resolution of the 30th ultimo, estimates of the
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