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Virginia and the Independence of Texas 281
tial aid was Thomas Jefferson Chambers who agreed to loan
$10,000 of the funds necessary for the purpose of recruiting a
force in the United States. and to recruit the force himself. This
he did in a highly successful manner, sending a large force of men
and quantities of war materials to Texas.1
Horatio Chriesman, the chief surveyor of Austin's colony dur-
ing its entire existence, was a native of Virginia, though going to
Texas from Missouri in 1822.2 Among those under sentence
of death at Tampico December 14, 1835, was a Virginian, William
H. Mackay, aged twenty.3 According to the Virginia Herald,
September 24, 1836, about thirty young men from Petersburg
went to Norfolk with the intention of embarking for Texas. No
doubt the companies which went from other southern states to
Texas contained Virginians, though mention of this fact does not
occur in the records.
Mason, of Virginia, on July 4, 1836, reported in the House front
the committee on foreign affairs in favor of recognizing the inde-
pendence of Texas as soon as satisfactory information was received
that Texas had in successful operation a civil government.4
Rumors of a renewed invasion of Texas by the Mexicans ap-
peared from time to time in the Virginia newspapers.5
Of those who never lost faith in Texas and in her future was
Branch T. Archer, already alluded to. On Tuesday evening, April
12, he addressed a crowded assemblage in Richmond, at the capi-
tol, on the affairs of Texas.6 Dr. Archer resembled Stephen F.
Austin in, his enthusiasm for the Texan cause, and upon a second
visit to Richmond the following year declared Mexico was in
greater danger from Texas, than Texas was from Mexico.7
1See Barker, "The Texas Revolutionary Army," in THE QUARTERLY, IX,
235, 240. In this connection, it may be noted that two Virginians, William
F. Gray and James MecCulloch, subscribed $10,000 each of the first loan
of $200,000 raised by Texas commissioners to the United States; of the
second loan, William F. Ritchie subscribed $8500, Howard F. Thornton
$1000, and Jeremiah Morton, $3000. Barker, "The Finances of the Texas
Revolution," in Political Science Quarterly, XIX, 630.
THE QUARTERLY, VI, 236. Brown, History of Texas, I, 116, note, wrongly
gives the date 1823.
"New Orleans Bee, December 25, 1835.
'Reports of Committees, 24 Cong., 1 sess., III, No. 854.
"See Virginia Herald, July 9, 16, 20, 1836; August 17, 1836.
O'ichmond Whig, April 15, 1836.
'Richmond Enquirer, August 29, 1837. Cf. the suggestion made by Justice
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