Andrew Briscoe

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Andrew Briscoe (born November 25, 1810 in Claiborne County , Mississippi , † October 4, 1849 in New Orleans , Louisiana ) was an American trader, officer , politician , lawyer and railroad promoter.

Career

Andrew Briscoe was born in 1810 on his father's Parmenas Briscoe plantation in Claiborne County. Nothing is known about his youth. He made several trips from Mississippi to Texas before settling in Texas, where he was registered as a citizen of Coahuila and Texas in 1833 . With a shipment of goods he then opened a shop in Anahuac ( Chambers County ) in 1835 . Briscoe opposed the irregular collection of customs duties by the Mexican authorities in Anahuac. He put Consequently there at a mass meeting and later in Harrisburg , which is a part of today Houston ( Texas is), each a protest before. When he was caught trying to trade in duty unpaid with DeWitt Clinton Harris (1814–1861), both he and Harris were arrested by Mexican officials. Both were only released when William Travis arrived with a company of 25 men on June 29, 1835 to remove the Mexican commander Antonio Tenorio in Anahuac from his post. In July Briscoe wrote a letter to the editor of the Brazoria Texas Republican to justify the action. In August he received a congratulatory letter from Travis. Briscoe took part as captain of the Liberty Volunteers in the battle at Concepción and served under Benjamin R. Milam in the siege of Bexar . In the following years Briscoe and Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano de Zavala y Sáenz were elected by their community as delegates for the Convention of 1836 in Washington , where they both co-signed the Declaration of Independence from Texas . Briscoe did not stay until the end of the meeting because military tasks prevented him from doing so. At the Battle of San Jacinto he was captain in command of Company A of the regular infantry .

Sam Houston named Briscoe Chief Justice of Harrisburg in 1836 . When his tenure ended in 1839, Briscoe began trading cattle and advocated railroad construction. In 1839 he planned a railway line from Harrisburg to Brazos River . When the project was abandoned in 1840, about two miles of the link had been leveled and laid with sleepers. In the same year an article "California Railroad" appeared in a newspaper, where he presented a complete plan for the construction of a railway line from Harrisburg to San Diego over Richmond , Prairieville , Austin and El Paso . In 1841 he secured a charter from the Republic of Texas for the Harrisburg Railroad and Trading Company, of which he was president. Briscoe moved with his family to New Orleans, Louisiana, in the spring of 1849, where he pursued banking and brokerage business until his death that same year. He was survived by his wife Mary Jane Harris Briscoe (1819-1903) and four children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DeWitt Clinton Harris on the Texas State Historical Association website
  2. ↑ Antonio Tenorio on the Texas State Historical Association website
  3. ^ Thrapp, Dan L .: Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: PZ , University of Nebraska Press, 1991, ISBN 9780803294202 , p. 1439
  4. ↑ Benjamin Rush Milan on the Texas State Historical Association website
  5. ^ Mary Jane Harris Briscoe in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved April 23, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Briscoe, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American trader, officer, politician, lawyer, and railroad promoter
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Claiborne County , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1849
Place of death New Orleans , Louisiana