WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1843
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TO ASA BRIGHAM, TREASURER 1
·washington, Texas, April 10th, 1843.
Republic of Texas Dr. To forty days' service as Commissioner to treat with the Frontier Indians, in the fall and winter of 1842, at $ 5 per day ----------------------------------------- ____ _____________________________ ... -------$20 0. 00 Cr. By amt. paid Porter for board of self and son 25.00 To John S. Black,
$ 175.00
Approved
Sam Houston [Rubric] Executive Department, ·washington, Apr. 10th, 1843.
To Maj. Asa Brigham, Treasurer &c. Sir- Pay the above amount of one hundred and seventy five dollars to John S. Black out of the funds in your hands to my . credit for the protection of the frontier, and hold this as a voucher for settlement. Sam Houston [Rubric]. 1 Financial Papers, 1842-1843, Texas State Library. For John S. Black, see Houston to Indian Commissioners, March 29, 1843.
TO ASA BRIGHAM, TREASURER 1
April 12, 1843.
Republic of Texas Dr. To money expended in service of the Republic in visiting and bringing in frontier Indians to Council, in 1842____ $150.00 Approved Sam Houston [Rubric] Executive Department, Washington, April 14th, 1843. To Maj. A. Brigham, Treasurer &c. T'o Jesse Chism/ Sir- Pay the above amount of one hundred and fifty dollars to Jesse C~ism, [Chisholm] out of the funds in your hands to my credit for protection of the frontier, & hold this as a voucher. Sam Houston [Rubric] 1 Financial Papers, 1842-1843, Texas State Library. :?Jesse Chisholm (also found spelled Chism, Chisum), the son of a. Scotch father a11d Cherokee Indian mother, was born in Tennessee .in 1806. In about 1829 he moved to the western part of Arkansas and lived there for a short time, then he moved to the Indian Territory, now the state of Okla- homa, and established himself near Fort Gibson. There he became a cele- brated guide, scout, plainsman, hunter and trader; but perhaps his greatest contribution to the world was in the capacity of peacemaker. He had known Sam Houston as a boy in Tennessee, and in 1829, when Houston's family
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