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that it would have afforded me much pleasure to have conferred such an appointment upon you had your application been filed in time. I had not the slightest apprehension that you desired it, or in fact, that you would have accepted the position, hence my selec- tion and appointment at so early a date. Please accept my thanks for the yoeman service you rendered me in the last Campaign, as also an assurance of my renewed and continued friendship. Thine Truly Sam Houston. 1 Governors' Lette1·s, Texas State Library. Thomas Lewellyn, son of Isaac and Mary (Watts) Lewellyn, was born and educated in Maury County, Tennessee. In 1848 he married Emily Rob- inson, also of Maury County. In 1849 they came to Texas, and settled on a farm, and in time they owned almost a thousand acres of well developed farm and ranch lands, and it is said that after 1849, they never owed a debt of even five dollars. They had nine children, five of whom lived to maturity. In 1861, Thomas Lewellyn enlisted in Company A, of the 26th Missis- sippi Regiment, Colonel Reynolds commanding: He was captured and was held prisoner for seven months, but was exchanged at Vicksburg. In 1864 he was with the Army of Virginia and remained with that army until, a short time before Lee's sunender, he was given a furlough and came home. This is said to have been the last furlough General Lee ever signed. After the war, Lewellyn returned to his farm in Hill County and bought more land, and erected a handsome farm home near the town of Wood- bury. See Lewis Publishing Company, A Memorial and E,iogtaphical His- tory of Johmon and Hill Counties, Texas, p. 664.
To FRANCIS M. WHITE 1 Executive Department, February 7, 1860.
Hon. F. M. White, Commissioner of the General Land Office Sir, Satisfactory .evidence having been presented to me that the Southern Pacific Railroad Company have completed Twenty- five miles of road, and in other respects complied with their charter, and the general Railroad law of the State, you will issue to said Company patents to the land to which they are entitled-to wit: Sixteen sections of land pr. mile in the manner prescribed by law. Sam Houston.
1 Exec1ttive Reco,·ds, 1859-1860, p. 14, Texas State Library. See Houston to White, January 30, 1860.
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