Austin, August 14, 1862.

 

Dear Capt.

                        Enclosed you will find an order from Gen. Van Dorn which lept out of the packet on Tuesday. You will discover it is full endorsement of my course up to the time. If there is any thing extant indicative of a charge against me from that officer it has never been shown.

 

            Major Pyron and others may misrepresent me but I am going to trouble them to prove their allegations. I have done my duty. I may not have acted in accordance with the views of certain office-seeking gentry but I am confident I did all my power to promote the interests of the country, and I am sure the patriot will thank me if the others abuse me.

                                                                                   

Your friend

John S. Ford

 

Capt. Adams

2^nd Reg. T.M.R.                                                          

San Antonio, Tex.

 

 

San Antonio Aug 19^th 1862

 

Capt Adams

            Dr Sir

                        I have reenveloped the letter from Col Ford to you

you will please show them to the men—yours—P. Hardeman

 

 

State of Texas

County of Travis         Before me the undersigned authority personally appeared Jno S Ford and Henry P Brewster to me well known who being sworn depose and say that they were acquainted with Augustus Williams in his life time and are acquainted with Robt H Williams and that they were generally known and reported as brothers and according to the best of our knowledge & belief they depose to the said fact.

Sworn to and subscribed

before me this 15^th day of

April AD 1854 Witness my                                        John S. Ford

                        hand & seal of Office                         H P Brewster

                        at Austin this 15^th

                        day April AD 1854

                        Ja^s T D[?]

                                    Notary Public Travis Co

                                                           

Received payment in full

April 15^th 1854

Rob^t H. Williams

 

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5489 [?]           Williams, Augustus

 

 

State of Texas

County of Cameron    Personally appeared before the undersigned authority John S. Ford, to me well known, who after being sworn, says:

            I have known Nathan Mitchell since the year 1844. The fact of his having been in the service of Texas in 1836, and in the battle of San Jacinto, is notoriously known and has been recognized and acknowledged in my presence by John M. Swisher and others who served at the same time, and the said Nathan Mitchell now in Brownsville, Cameron county, Texas, is the identical person so recognized and acknowledged, and I believe his claim for a pension under the laws of the State of Texas is just and well founded.

                                                                                                           

John S. Ford

 

Sworn to and

subscribed before

me this the 6^th day

of June, 1874.

            R. B. Foster

            ClkDistCtCamCoty

 

 

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...payment to the Company in full.

                        Signed John Ford,

                                    Commissary Gen^l

I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original now on file in this office

                                                                                                           

A L McCoy

C.C. QM Dept.

 

 

Republic of Texas

                        To John S. Ford Assistant Surgeon Texas Militia                  Dr.

Pay for myself from 6 August to 28 August 1838      22 days            $30      $22.00

Pay for a Servant      6 "               28   "          "          22        "          8            [blot].86

"          " 2 Horses     6 "               28   "          "          22        "          16              11.72

Pay      " Clothing     6 "               28   "          "          22        "            2.50         1.82

" Subsist for myself  6                 28   "          "          22        " Ration per day 88 at 30

                                                                                                                          17.60

" for Subs fr svt        6 "               28   "          "          22        22.30                   4.40

                                                                                                                        $63.40

 

Received August 8^th 1839 of B. B. Sturges Paymaster 5 Army Sixty three & 40/100 dollars in full of the above account.                                     

John S. Ford

Asst. Surgeon

1^st Regt 3^rd Brig T.M.

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