WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1844
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To JAMES H. RAYMONDl To J. F. Brown
Dr.
Republic of Texas
For One Horse furnished for use of the Commission to Mexico - Specie - July 29, 1844 Approved--
$100.00
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Sam Houston [Rubric]
J as. H. Raymond,!? Acting Treasurer Sir, You will pay to J. F. Brown the amount of the above account of one hundred dollars in specie, out of the fund for pay and Expenses of Commissioners to Mexico. Sam Houston [Rubric] Treasurers Office, July 29th, 1844. Received of Jas. H. Raymond, Actg. Treasurer, One hundred dollars in Specie-on account of a Horse purchased by Genl. Sam Houston-for use of the Commission to Mexico. J. F. Brown. 1 Financici.l Papc1·s, 1843-1844, Texas State Library. 'J.ames Hervey Raymond (June 30, 1817-October 30, 1897), son of William R. and Mary {Kellogg) Raymond, was born •in Granville, New York. At the age of fifteen the boy ran away from home and went to Cin- cinnati, where he found employment as a clerk in a store. He remained in that position until 1836, then returned to New York and clerked in a store until the late summer of 1839, when he decided to go to Texas. He started immediately, but stopped off at Natchez, Mississippi, for a few months. He landed at Galveston on July 12, 1840, and from there went on to Houston. At Houston he met a group of surveyors who told him that he would probably be able to find employment at Franklin, Robertson County, where a band of surveyors were preparing to make surveys on the upper Brazos. He walked all the way from Houston to Franklin, and was employed as deputy surveyor to go with the outfit of surveyors up the Brazos; but an Indian raid on the Robertson County district prevented the proposed expedition, so in October, 1840, he went with George W. Hill, at the time a member of the Texas Congress, to Austin. Backed by Hill's influence, he w.as made Journal Clerk ot the House of Representatives, and in April, 1841, President Lamar appointed him Acting Treasurer. In November the Fifth Texas Congress appointed him Clerk of the House, and he r'etained that position until Texas became a state of the United States in 1846. In the meantime, in 1842, Raymond participated with the Texas militia in resisting the
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