The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 69, July 1965 - April, 1966 Page: 381
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is a petition by some of our acquaintances to your Excellency pray-
ing the exercise of your influence with Pres. Santa Anna in behalf
of our brother. We wish to show that we solicit nothing improper
or discreditable, and if it can add additional weight I will state that
they are highly respectable and influential.2'
Permit me to offer assurances of my high respect and consideration
and believe me
Yours res.
H. Y. Smith
President Jackson
Hermitage
Tennessee
Joseph F. Smith was born in Fulton County, Kentucky, in
18o8 and moved to Texas in 1837 to go into a business partner-
ship with his uncle, Henry Smith. On the Mier Expedition he
served in Company E under Captain Charles K. Reese. After
his release from Perote, he settled on Aransas Bay and founded
the town of St. Mary's. A violent secessionist, Joseph F. Smith
expatriated himself to Mexico after the fall of the Confederacy
and lived on his ranch at Tuxpan. He died in 1878.25
St. Clairsville, Ohio,
February 4th, 1844
General Andrew Jackson
Late President of the United States
Dear Sir
My friend and neighbor, Mrs. Sarah Jane Morrison, has
showed me a letter addressed to you, earnestly intreating your kind
offices and influence in procuring the release of Mr. Thomas S. Smith
her only brother, now confined as a prisoner in the Fortress of Perote
in Mexico. Mr. Smith visited Texas to settle up the estate of a de-
ceased brother in that country, and in an unfortunate moment con-
sented to unite with the Texians in a military enterprise against the
Republic of Mexico. He was taken a prisoner at Mier and has ever
since been detained in confinement. Mrs. Morrison and her friends
have done everything in their power to procure his release, but all
their exertions have proved unavailing. A few days since, she read
in the newspapers the correspondence between our Minister in Mexico
and General Santa Anna, from which she discovered that the General
"'The Arkansas petition carries sixteen signatures, and an accompanying state-
ment is signed by four men of Shelbyville, Tennessee.
""Men of Mier," L. W. Kemp Collection (Archives, University of Texas Library).381
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