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WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1843
Winkler (ed.), Sec1·et Journals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1836-1845, pp. 230, 308. 2 The Torrey Brothers. John Henry Brown, India.n Tf' ars and Pionee,·s of Texas, 94-95, says: "There were four ·of the Torrey brothers, all from Ashford, Connecticut, the younger following the elder to Texas from 1835 to 1840. David was the head of the Torrey Trading House. He was the third son in order of death, being killed by the Indians on the Brazos frontier, about the time of annexation. James, a gallant young man, kindly re- membered for his social and soldierly virtues, was among the number who drew black beans at the hacienda ·of Salado, Mexico, and were shot to death by the order of Santa Anna, on March 25, 1843. Thomas, the companion of Joseph C. Eldridge to the ,vild tribes in 1843, was a worthy brother to such men as David and James. He was a Santa Fe prisoner in 1841-1842, marched twelve hundred miles, from Santa Fe to Mexico City, and was there imprisoned with his fellows. He passed the Council of Payhayuca, but sickened and died at Bird's Fort in 1843 (See Ibid., 93-100). John F. Torrey, the only living one of the four brothers in 1850, built and operated cotton and woolen factories at New Braunfels. In his declining years he moved to Hood County, where he lived on his farm on Comanche Peak." See also, Homer S. Thrall, A Pictorial History of Tcxcis, 626.
To ASA BRIGHAM, TREASURERt
Falls of Brazos, April 4, 1843
$66.62 Sixty days after date you will pay to Robert H. Porter, or 62 order Sixty-Six and 100 dollars in Exchequer Bills for supplies furnished the Indian commissioners as per account rendered.
G. W. Terrell )
) Commissioners
J. P. Black )
Sam Houston [Rubric] Executive Department, Washington, May 4, 1843
APPROVED:
To Major A. Brigham, Treasurer, Sir - Pay the above amount of Sixty-Six Dollars and Sixty two cents to Robert H. Porter, or order out of funds in your hands to my credit for Indian Purposes, and retain this as a voucher for settlement Sam Houston [Rubric]
1Pripers on Indian Affairs, Texas State Library.
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