Ann Cavitt received the following communication from the General Land
Office of the Republic of Texas, then at Houston:
To Mrs. Ann Cavitt
General Land Office
Houston Oct 24-1837
LaMar Upper Colony Texas
By the 6th Section of the act entitled "An act supplementary to an act
establishing a General Land Office etc; it is made the duty of all
Empresarios, Commissioners, Alcaldes, or other persons to deliver over
to the General Land Offices all titles, books, surveys, papers,
documents or other things in their possession or charge belonging to the
Republic or which by this act is made public property and so
contemplated to be delivered over as aforesaid, which shall be delivered
over as aforesaid on application in person of said Commissioner or to
his order in writing.
Therefore in discharge of my official duty I require you to hand over to
Mr. Robert Henry all titles, books, papers, documents, etc, etc, as
contemplated in the act above aluded to.
Be particular to make out a schedule of all the documents so handed over
and enclose same in a letter to me, after having taken a copy of said
schedule which Mr. Robert Henry will sign as a receipt to you.
Your immediate compliance is earnestly solicited. Yours very
respectfully
John P. Borden, Comm. Gen. Land Office
Republic of Texas
County of Milam
Oct., 1837
Received of Ann Cavitt, a Record Book, bound, of the Nashville Colony,
containing the surveys made under the authority of Felix Robertson. A
list of titles issued by the Commissionor William H. Steele, as also a
list of colonists made since the passage of the organic law for which I
hereby, by powers granted and delegated by the Commissioner General of
the Land Offices John P. Bordon, Esq. dated 25th day of October, 1837 to
me, to do for the safety of the said Ann Cavitt give this receipt in
duplicates which is contemplated as a schedule referred to in said
instructions.
Signed Robert Henry, specially authorized by the Commissioner General to
receive the same.
In 500 B.C. Lao-Tzu wrote, "The reality of the building does not consist
in the four walls and the roof but in the space within to be lived in."
In the same sense the home is not the exterior appearance but the spirit
moving among the members of the household for the mutual good and
enjoyment of all and each. Such seemed to be the native gifts of young,
widowed Ann Cavett Cavitt. The competent and forceful little woman, now
called, as the custom was, the Widow Cavitt, never faltered. With the
direction and management of her people and children as her burden she
proceeded with accuracy and certain mind to her work as she saw it
before her.
Ann came of a family which had never approved of slavery. Some of her
brothers and sisters moved north so they would not seem to be at outs
with their Alabama way of life, for their teaching was for each man's
freedom in God's will. Ann thought of her people, the Negroes Andrew had
entrusted his business and management to under his direction, as her
responsibility to lead, to direct, to protect in mutual cooperation for
the best results for the community.
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The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched.
It must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
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