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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LA)£AR
of the sincere satisfaction it will afford your friends to see you I sub- scribe myself Your Obdt. Servt. ISAAC HoL~IEs Capt. M. V. ~ ( ' [Ad<;l.ressed :] Gen. M. B. Lamar Macon Georgia
No. 2185. PETITION OF NATHANIEL HOYT
[Galveston? Texas, June 12? 1845] To the Honorable Senate [and] House of Representatives for the Republic of Texas, in Congress assembled: The Petition of Nathaniel Hoyt, respectfully sheweth, That- . He, arrived in Texas, which he adopted as his country, in 1833-and was employed trading and navi- gating about the Gulf of Mexico until the fall of 1834, when he was imprisoned by the ~Iexicans, for defending and rescuing his own prop- erty from thier grasp-By the aid of friends, he effected his escape, after some months imprisonment, and reached New Orleans. · At New Orleans he refitted the schooner [Pennsy J lvania, formerly under his command, fror the] purpose of maintaining the rights of his adopted country under the Constitution of 1824, and in the fall of 1835, he brought 135 Volunteers to Velasco, under the command of Colonel Ward. In the begining of 1836, he brought 112 Volunteers to Velasco, under the command of Colonel, A, Turnner, and subse- quently conveyed to Velasco and Brazoria 27 Volunteers for the army and the pieces of artillery now called the "Twin Sisters." After his arrival at Brazoria,. it being ascertained that the Mexicans were pres[s]ing onward, he took on board his vessel several females and families and returned to Velasco. That-At Velasco, he took on board a quantity of Government stores and munitions of war, and proceeded there,yith to Galveston, where he discharged them ~ml received a Captain's Commission in the Navy of Texas, from President Burnett, with instructions to relinquish the command of the Pensylvania, and hold himself subject to the orders of the Government. That- He and his crew assisted in constructing a Battery on the inner point of Galves[ton Is]land, and that he gave his cannon,-two n[ine] pounders,-with thier appurtenances, for the purpose of arming said Battery. That-in accordance with his instructions, he proceeded to New Or- leans, and gave up the command of his schooner, and reported himself for duty to Commodore Hawkins and the Secretary of the :t>ravy. That no means being at the disposal of the Government to furnish another vessel of war, Petitioner was ordered to act as executive officer of the National war Schooner Brutus, to keep himself in actual service, until the Government could provide the means of placing him in a command adequate to his commission. That-he served in the Brutus until she departed clandestinely for New York, taking away Petitioner's instruments, and all his clothes except those in use. . That-he obtained a three months' leave of absence from Commodore Hawkins, then at Velasco, for the purpose of refurnishing himself with necessaries at New Orleans, whither he proceeded, and was there offered the command of a Privateer, which, th[rough] the mediation
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