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Richard Fox Brenham

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Richard Fox Brenham

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Auction Date:2011 Nov 17 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Physician (1810–1843) and member of the Texan Santa Fe expedition and the Mier expedition. Upon the failure of the Santa Fe mission in September and October 1841 Brenham and his fellow ‘Santa Fe Pioneers’ were arrested by Mexican authorities and imprisoned in Mexico City. He later joined the Somervell expedition against Mexico. When William Somervell ordered his volunteers to disband and return to Texas despite their success in capturing Laredo, Texas, and Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Brenham joined with others who were unwilling to return home and set out on the Mier expedition. On December 26, 1842, Brenham took part in a rebellion and escape attempt at Salado, on the route from Matamoros toward Mexico City. Though many of the Texans temporarily escaped, Brenham was killed in the fighting, on February 11, 1843. Manuscript DS, signed “Richd. F. Brenham Commissioner,” one lightly-lined page, 7.5 x 5, Austin, June 4, 1841. Receipt for a horse. In part: “Received of R. S. Neighbors, Act[in]g Q[uarter] M[aste]r. One…(Spanish) horse this same being for my own use on Snta Fee [sic] Expedition.” In very good condition, with scattered toning and soiling, old repairs on reverse, and light creasing and wrinkling. A scarce offering from the die-hard Texas patriot. The Robert Davis Collection.