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Orleans where I arrived after an uncommon long passage of seven-
teen days, having taken a very bad cold. I was very sick for about
three weeks. When I got better, I started for the city of Natchez
about three hundred miles up the Mississippi. There I stopped a
week and then started for Cincinnati, Ohio. From there to Felicity,
Ohio, where I am now living and enjoying good health.
Dear Brother, I should like to hear from you as soon as possible,
as I shall start in about a month for Texas, and should the Lord
spare me my life through the war, I shall make Texas my home.
Please direct your letter to me in the care of Byrd Lowder, Mata-
gorda,4 Texas.
Hillsboro, Ohio, March 26, 1837
I now take my pen to inform you that I am in Hillsboro, Ohio,
Highland County, working at my business and cannot return to
Texas as soon as I mentioned in my other letter.
I have traveled a good deal over the United States but never have
found a place like Texas. It is a healthy, rich, and beautiful country.
It is the flower garden of the world. When I return, I shall make it
my home. But I am not so fortunate as some. As I was returning
from Texas to New Orleans, I was taken sick, and my money being
nearly exhausted, not being able to work, I was obliged to part with
all my titles and claims in Texas which amounted to three thousand
one hundred and eighty-two acres of land and cost me nine months'
hard usage. It would have been a fortune to me could I have held
it a short while. I was offered three hundred dollars for it in Texas
and was obliged to sell it in New Orleans for sixty-five dollars.
In 1838 and 1839, Goodman traveled across country through
Ohio and Pennsylvania to New York seeking his father who had
left New York in 1832.
New York, November 11, 1839
Not having heard from you for some time, I wrote to Oliver Tuthill
for information where I might find you, but I did not receive an
answer in time to come and see you, for I had paid my passage to
private in my company and as such has discharged his duties to this date in an
honorable and soldier-like manner and is now at his own request discharged.
Signed; Benjamin G. Gillen, Capt.
E. Morehouse
Col. Ist Regt.
Camp Coleto
August 21st, 1836
'Matagorda, then the most important port in Texas, was on the east bank and
at the mouth of the Colorado River with a population of about five hundred.
Chester Newell, History of the Revolution in Texas (New York, 1838).355
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