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With feelings of deep regard for the usefulness and pros- perity of the society and the young gentlemen, its members, I am, Sir, with most respectful salutations, Your obt. servt., Sam Houston [Rubric] 1 "Houston's Private Executive Record Book," pp. 416-417, courtesy of Mr. Franklin Williams. =Nathaniel Macon (December 17, 1757-June 29, 1837) soldier, politician, statesman, planter, was educated at Princeton College, served in the Revolutionary War, was a member of the North Carolina Senate from 1780-1785; was elected to the Second United States Congress and served until December, 1815; in 1815 was elected to the United States Senate and served through 1828, when he resigned because of ill health. He was president ~f the North Carolina State Constitutional Convention in 1835 and was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of Van Buren and Johnson, 1836. He died at his plantation home on Buck's Creek, \Varren County, .North Carolina, and is buried there in his family burial ground. See Dictiona1-y of America.n Biography, XII, 157-159; W. E. Dodd, The Place of Nathaniel Mac.on in Southern Histo1-y, also, Life of Nathaniel Macon; Ame1·ican Historical Review, ·July, 1902.
To MRS. CAROLINE L. SCOTTt Washington, Texas, December 5th, 1843.
To Mrs. Caroline L. Scott: My dear Madam,
Your letter of the 6th of October is at hand; but burthened as I am by official business I cannot now do more than merely advise you of its receipt, and the direction I have given to the requests it contains. I have deemed it best to refer them to some gentleman resi- dent in Houston (the residence of your lamented husband at the time of his death,) with a request from me that he would cor- respond with you. With this view I have addressed, and en- closed your letter to Colonel J. B. I. Hadley of that place; a gentleman of philanthropic dispositions, which will, I am quite sure, lead him to afford you all the information in his power concerning the estate of your late husband in Texas. He is probably acquainted with the true state of his affairs. With my best wishes for the prosperity and happiness of yourself and family, I am, my dear Madam, your obt. servt., Sam Houston [Rubric] 111 Houston's Private Executive Record Book," p. 417, courtesy of Mr. Franklin Williams.
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