The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 9, July 1905 - April, 1906 Page: 286
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286 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
that time and in case of any interference on the part of the united
States to enforce the laws she has declared her determination to
secede we expect stormy times in the United States. perhaps civil
war which God avert
Your brother Micheal Williamson died a few weeks ago and Col
Peacock has taken home his widow & children
With great respect I remain
your friend
Asa Hoxey
TrjOMAS J. PILGRIM.-A letter recently received from Judge W.
S. Fly, of San Antonio, contains some valuable items concerning
the life of Thomas J. Pilgrim, 'a well-known pioneer of Texas.
Since they are of general interest, -and for the purpose of record-
ing them, permission to publish these facts has been secured from
Judge Fly. They are printed here as excerpts from the letter:-
"Thomas J. Pilgrim was born in Connecticut in 1807, and in
the fall of 1828, he left New York on a vessel, which was tempest-
tossed, and which, after the passengers had suffered greatly from
lack of food and water, landed at Matagorda, 'Texas. He made
his way from that place to the headquarters of Stephen F. Austin's
Colony at San Felipe, on the Brazos river. There it was that he
organized the Sunday School of which he writes in the article re-
ferred to [in A Texas Scrap Book, 69-76]. He learned the Span-
ish language, and for a long time acted as interpreter and trans-
lator for Austin's colony. He was very frail and delicate and was
not a participant in the battles of 1836. After that war he settled
at Gonzales, where lie married Sarah J. Bennet, the daughter of
Major Valentine Bennet, who was in Houston's army at San Ja-
cinto 'and who was a member of the Santa F6 expedition. He is
mentioned a number of times in Kendall's account of that expedi-
tion.
"In 1846 or 1847, Mr. Pilgrim organized a union Sunday school
at Gonzales, of which he was superintendent until his death on Oc-
tober 29, 1877, with the exception of the time he spent in Austin,
from 1871 to 1874. He was buried in the old cemetery at Gon-
zales, and although feeble efforts, at times, have been made to erect
a monument to his memory nothing has been done.
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