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ones. Do these tribes justice- keep liquor from them, and we will have no trouble. Sam Houston 1Exccutit1e Record Book, No. 40, pp. 78-79, Texas State Library. ~George W. Adams was a merchant at Houston. On November 20, 1839, President Lamar appointed him a Notary Public of Harrisburg County. See E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret. Joumals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1886-1845, 140, 143. To CAPTAIN EPHRAIM McLA1N 1 Executive Department, City of Houston, April 20, 1842. To Captain E. McLain : 2 Sir- Before it will be possible for a campaign to open against the enemy, it is important that two companies should range upon the frontier as a corps of observation. Having great confidence in you, I hope that you will succeed in raising a company of fifty six men, or over that number. Congress placed no means at my disposal to accomplish my wishes relative to frontier defence. For the salvation of Texas, I do hope that as many of the young men as can, ( under one hundred), will volunteer under you for six months. Previous to the end of that period they may look for very important action. With confidence in your capacity, integrity, and wisdom, I render you assurances of my friendship. Sam Houston. 1Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 83, Texas State Library. 2 Ephriam McLain was born in Christian County, Kentucky, in 1816. As a young boy he went to Indiana, thence to Missouri, and from there to Texas with a herd of horses in 1836, arriving shortly after the battle of San Jacinto. He first engaged in trading at Velasco but in 1840 he was in command of a company of Texas Rangers, and fought Indians near the site of Corpus Christi. He participated in the Mier Expedition in 1842, and at the beginning of the Mexican War was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the First Texas Infantry, Albert Sidney Johnston being the colonel. This company was mustered in for only six months and at the expiration of that time it was discharged. When gold was discovered in California, McLain was one of the early gold panners; he remained in California until 1857, at which time he returned to Texas and made his home in Galveston. He took no active part in the Civil War, and after the close of that war, engaged in the new industry of beef packing. He never married, and died at Galveston, October, 1895, at the age of seventy-nine years. See Ben Stuart, Texas Fighters and Frontie1· Rangers (MS.), The University of Texas Library.
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