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This county will vote about 500. . . . You will not lose over 50, possibly 75. . . . So now you are in possession of all my news. You will now go on with all your skill and appliances, and you know what licks, and where to give and how to give them. I may remain here until the last of this month, unless business should require me at home. . . . I hope we are pretty well through exciting matters; but should it be otherwise, we must meet... Sam Houston Doctor Anson Jones. [Note, 1853. It will be seen from Gen. Houston's letters and other documents that he was absent from the seat of Government nearly all the year 1844 and much of 1843, during most of which time I administered all branches of the Government. A. J.] 'Anson Jones, Memoranda and Official Correspondence, Republic of Texas, 268-269. ~Richardson Scurry {November 11, 1811-April 9, 1862), son of a Scotch father and a Huguenot French mother, was born at Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee. From his father he inherited a remarkable memory, and from his mother, a reflective, philosophical mind. He re- ceived good educational advantages in his native state. After he had finished his academic studies he studied law in the office of his kinsman, Judge Josephus Guild. Admitted to the bar he began the practice of his profession at Gallatin; but just then the Texas revolution began, and he decided to go to Texas. He enlisted in the Texas army on March 10, 1836, and was elected sergeant on March 20 {See Couiptroller's Milita?if Service Reco,·ds, Texas State Library). On April 14, he was transferred to the artillery service, in which branch of the army he served untn he was honorably discharged, October 4, 1836. On December 19, of the same year, he was appointed district attorney for the First Judicial District, the appointment being confirmed by the Senate on the same day {See E. W. Winkler {ed.), Secret Jour·nals of the Senate, Rep1iblic of Texas, 1896-1845, 33). He served as secretary of the Senate during the First Congress. In 1840, Congress elected him judge of the Sixth Judicial District (Ibid., 174). He soon 1·esigned this position to become district attorney for the Fifth Judicial District. He served as representative from San Augustine County in the Seventh and Eighth Congresses of the Republic {November 14, 1842-February 5, 1844), and in 1850 he was elected a member of the Thirty-second United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1851, to March 3, 1853. His first Texas residence was at San Augustine, where he became a member of the law firm of Henderson and Rusk. While a resident of San Augustine he joined a company of volunteer Indian fighters commanded by General Thomas J. Rusk, and took part in all the Indian wars of 1838 to 1842. While serving in the Texas Congress at Washington, he met Miss Evantha Foster, a cousin of Mrs. William H'. Wharton, and in 1845, they were married. Soon after the annexation of Texas to the United States,
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