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R.C. Patton Letter, February 7, 1872
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| Title | R.C. Patton Letter, February 7, 1872 |
| Subject | Correspondence
Cotton
Shipping
Commerce
Railroads
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| Description | Letter: R. C. Patton, Sabine Pass, to Charles W. Hurt, Melrose, re: shipping at Sabine Pass & Prospects of railroad, with envelope, 7 Feb. 1872. |
| Location of Record | A5, Box1, Folder5 |
| Biographical Note | Lyne Taliaferro (Tol) Barret, pioneer oilman, was born at Appomattox, Virginia, on November 7, 1832. His family moved to Texas in 1842, first to San Augustine County, and then to the Barret plantation at Melrose. Barret began his career as a clerk and by 1862 had become a partner in the mercantile firm Hardeman Brothers and Barret. He first became interested in the oil industry before the Civil War and contracted with Lucy W. Skillern to lease 279 acres near Oil Springs in 1859, but the war stopped his preparations. From about 1863 to 1865 he served as captain of the Quartermaster Corps, Confederate States of America, for the Nacogdoches district. After the war, Barret, Benjamin P. Hollingsworth, Charles A. Hamilton, John T. Flint, and John B. Earle organized the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company. Drilling began at Oil Springs during the summer of 1866 and resulted in the first producing oil well in the state. Due to the low price of oil and the political unrest caused by Reconstruction, t |
| Scope and Content Note | The Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers contain correspondences, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914). |
| Repository | ETRC |
| K-12 Lesson Plan | (http://tides.sfasu.edu/Teachers/Tides/docs/LessonPlans/Elementary/socialPlans/railroad4.html ) |
| Transcript | Sabine Pass Feb 7th 1872
Mr Chas W. Hurt
Melrose
Dear Friend
I have been informed by Miss Mollie Moore that you were put at Melrose, and, had you been a brother I do not think the intelligence would have Conveyed any more Joy to me for I have always looked upon you as an Elder brother. I would be verry (sic) glad to See you, and I am in hopes I can get off Soon on business, and if I do I will mix a great deal of pleasure in it by Coming up to See you. We have quite a lively little place here, two of the Morgan Ships are now in port, and every Wharf crowded with Cotton besides. We have Some prospects of a Rail Road a Company of Surveyors arrived here last night from St Louis, and went to work this morning from what I can learn their intented (sic) Route goes through Angelina and Nacogdoches. Now Charley I Know it is against your religion to write but if you Knew how anxious I am to See that old familiar fist, I think you would deviate for once hoping you may
I am as Ever Your Friend R C Patton |
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