219
WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1842
They settled at San Antonio and began to prosper. When General Vasquez marched into San Antonio in 1842, Maverick took his family to the Brazos, where they remained· for several years; but he himself returned to San Antonio, where in September, when General Woll captured the city and took many prominent citizens prisoners, Maverick was among the number of the captured. He was carried to Castle Perote on the road from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico, where with ball and chain on his feet he was made to labor on the streets and on other public works. He was held a prisoner at hard labor until 1843, when, through the influence of General Waddy Thompson, he was released. While confined in a Mexican prison he had been elected a member of the Seventh Texas Congress, and was subsequently reelected to the Eighth Congress. He was one of the c_ommissioners who served with Captain John C. Hays in opening up an overland route from San Antonio to El Paso. He was a member of the Convention of 1845, which framed the state constitution preparatory to the entrance of Texas into the United States, and afterwards served as a member of the Texas State Legislature. He was a member of the Secession Convention in 1861, and was one of the commissioners appointed by that body to negotiate a sunender of the United States troops under the command of General Twiggs at San Antonio. With this duty well performed, Maverick retired to private. life and to the conduct of a successful business which he had built up in San Antonio. When he died in 1870, he left a large family to survive him. A county created from Kinney County in 1856, was named in his honor as a signer of the Declaration of Texas Independence. See Mary A. Maverick, Memoirs (1921); Samuel A. Maverick's Memoirs (MS.), The University of Texas Library; Frederick C. Chabot, Geneal.ogies of Early San Antonio Families, 276-281; Z. T. Fulmore, The History and Geography of Texas as Told in County Names, 60; Sam Houston Dixon, Men "Who 11'/ade Texas Free, 265- 271; Homer S. Thrall, A Pictorial History of Texas, 588. William C. Binkley (ed.), Official Correspondence of the Texan Revolution, I, 395, 467. ORDERS TO THE COMPTROLLER CONCERNING JAMES P. McKINNEY'S DRAFT, DECEMBER 2, 1842 1 Let a draft be issued on the Collector at Galveston for the amount of the deficit between the amount received and par funds, or so as to arrange it equitably. The draft is to be par. 2nd Dec. 1842. SAM HOUSTON. [ ·written below Houston's Order] : The draft referred to ,vas issued on the 23rd June, one month anterior to the passage of the Law discriminating between funds to be received at the Custom House. Mr. McKinney therefore is in the same situation with others who held Exchequer Bills at the date of the passage of the Law of the 23rd July. The draft has been returned as paid by
Powered by FlippingBook