WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1824-1857
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Whatever my destiny is, yours shall be the same, so far as I may be able to make it glorious, prosperous, or happy. If you can come down and see me within four or five days, I will be happy to see you, as I will wish to set out, ere long by way of Tennessee, and Arkansas, and reach there with the least delay possible. If I should see you here, I will make you acquainted with the extent of my hopes and expectations!! Write to me if you can't come down, but come if you can- Do nothing in violation of your parents' wishes in order to gratify me. But if we should live, our wealth must be boundless. My most cordial and friendly regards to your father. Truly your friend, Sam Houston. C. F. M. Noland, Esq. 2 [Addressed on envelop]: From Govr. Houston to Chas. F. M. Noland, Aldee, Virginia. 1 Berkley Papers, Alderman Library, University of Virginia; also micro- film in The University of Texas Library. ~Among the letters of the Prentiss-Houston correspondence; Library of The University of Texas; also see Volume I, pp. 197-266, passim; this annotator understood the name of this young man "Noland," to be John T. Noland. It see!11s clear, however, from this letter, that his name was Charles F. M. Noland, and that he Jived at Aldee, not Richmond, Virginia. There was a William Noland listed among the stockholders of the Galves- ton Bay and Texas Land Company which was organized to exploit the empresario land grants to Burnet, Vehlein, and Zavala. He was the father of th<:? addressee of this Jetter. See Robert T. Thompson, Colonel James Neilson, etc., 69. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1940, and Charles F. M. Noland to William Noland, May 11, 1829, and October 14, 1832, Berkley Papers, Alderman Library, University of Vir- ginia. Lewis Berkley, from whose papers this letter comes, was also a stockholder in the Company.
To LEWIS C. FERGusoN 1
Camp West of Brazos, 3rd Apl. 1836. I hereby bind myself to make title to one league of land, to Lewis C. Ferguson, in consideration that he will act agreeably to my directions, and render to the army, all the aid in his power, as an Engineer, and officer of the Steam Boat "Yellow Stone." And I do bind myself not to call on him to take arms in behalf of Texas, but will allow him to remain under the flag of the U. States, and its protection. The title [is] to be made when the
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