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To GEORGE W. HocKLEY 1 Executive Department, City of Houston, June 7, 1842. The President presents his compliments to the Secretary of War, and requests him to make out, in appropriate form, appoint- ments for Captain Stevenson/ and others, as may be deemed ex- pedient, which will be delivered, for the time being, in the place of commissions, and until the latter can be duly prepared and forwarded. Captain Stevenson is in town, and will leave in the next boat for Galveston. He will take down such appointments as may be ready, for Capt. Clemens 3 and others. If any difficulty should arise on this subject, call at this office, immediately after dinner. Sam Houston. 1 Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 97. 2 Captain [Robert] Stevenson was born in Tennessee, but came to Texas in 1832. At that time he was married and brought his family with him. At the outbreak of the Texas revolution he joined the volunteer army, a member of Captain George M. Collinsworth's company, and participated in the capture of Goliad, October 9, 1835. He also participated in the Battle of San Jacinto, on which occasion he commanded the company of Captain William W. Hill, who was detained in the camp at Harrisburg on account of illness. After Stevenson had received an honorable discharge, he reenlisted in the Texas army and served from June 4, to September 4, 1836. He removed his family from near Goliad to the Coles settlement, Washington County, and became one of the founders of the town of Inde- pendence. When trouble began again in 1841, and 1842, with the Indians and the Mexicans, he organized one of the volunteer companies for the protection of the frontier. See Comptrolle1·'s Milita,·y Service Reco,·ds, Texas State Library; also, Dixon and Kemp, The Heroes of S<Ln Jacinto, 227. 3 Captain Lewis Clemens [This name is also found spelled Clements and Clemins] was born in Kentucky in 1816, immigrated to Texas in 1835, and on July 9, 1835 enlisted in Captain Philip Coe's company of rangers. His service record shows that he was honorably discharged from the ranging company in February, 1836, that he reenlisted in t.he Texas army and served from March 1, to May 1, 1836. Dixon and Kemp, Heroes of Sa.n Jacinto, 229, list him as having fought at the Battle of San Jacinto. He was a member of the Texas Veteran's Association at the time of his death, at Brenham, in 1892. See ilfoste,· Rolls, Texas General Land Office; also Comptroller's Military Service Rcco,·ds, Texas State Library.
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