The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 45, July 1941 - April, 1942 Page: 239
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Jonas Harrison, Legendary and Historical
the Trustees of the rebuilt village of Buffalo Creek. The town
was sufficiently recovered from the war at the third election in
1816, and the Trustees qualified and served; soon after they
were elected by the people of the village. Actually, then, he
was one of the fathers of Buffalo-a founder of a great city;
as long as that great city of 600,000 souls endures his fame is
secure. Upon the organization of the Bank of Niagara soon
after the war, he was one of the directors and so continued
until he left Buffalo. He was a founder and leading member
of the vestry of Saint Paul's Episcopal church. He was also a
Mason of high degree. Finally, he built for himself the finest
house in Buffalo, which remained such for many years, and
even thirty years later, was still a show place because of its
splendid interior.
Alas for human security! The panic of 1819 ruined him. He
was compelled to sell his fine house, and later, all his other
property was sold by the Attorney General of New York and
found insufficient to pay his debts. Imprisonment for debt was
still the law in New York though not strictly enforced. In 1819
he left Buffalo openly on a prospecting trip. His arrival by
ship in Detroit with two valises was the last his family, or
Buffalo, ever heard certainly of him. There were no serious
irregularities in his official accounts. The estate was settled by
his wife, a woman of the highest character.
Texas
This Jonas Harrison research is not the only Texas mystery
where the dangling leads for further research fall all about,
and lead to inaction by their mere superfluity. We know he
entered Texas on December 24, 1820. We know a great deal more.
But first should come documentary evidence. The earliest archive
records of Jonas Harrison, December, 1827, show him in the
full practiced of law. He appears as attorney for Jared Groce
in a lawsuit over the estate of Robert Collier, who was mur-
dered by the Yoakum gang of robbers. In the same month, he
makes a report to Colonel Piedras as one of the judges in the
election for procurador, or elector, of the District of Tenehaw
and Sabine. He signs himself "Acting Comisary of Police of
Tenehaw." During February, 1828, Jonas Harrison is found
Alcalde of Tenehaw, reporting to Colonel Piedras, commanding
officer at Nacogdoches. He has protested the illegal intrusions239
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