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46 THE TEXAS GULF HISTORICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
Owing to some losses,...and the increased difficulty they have ex-
perienced in collecting the sums due to said Firm, he finds it im-
possible to discharge the obligations he has contracted... he prays
that this Honourable Court may direct that a meeting of all his
creditors may be called.. .so that he may submit to their investiga-
tion, a full statement of his affairs, and surrender to them all his
property.... 26
On Millard's behalf, the attorney asked that Millard be released from
all debts, both individual or as co-partner of Millard & Co. The opposing
attorney agreed to the terms of the petition, but granted no discharge. A
list of Millard's assets was attached to the notarial document; they were
very few. He had divested himself of as many as he could. In May of 1834
he had sold the slaves Letitia Inge and Philip Evans to his brother Alfred,
who had already taken them to Thibodauxville.27He had already sent the
store inventory to Texas with Huling and Pulsifer. The last item on the list
was a note from Thomas Huling to Millard, listed as "Thos. B. Huling and
Co., Texas note for H. Millard: $2,000.''28 Millard had managed to salvage
some of his capital, after all - by placing it out of reach of his creditors,
in the hands of his new partner in Mexican Texas.
The New Orleans court was eventually to order that, because of the
failure of "the House of H. Millard & Co.," the remaining property of
Samuel Mason would be sold by the Register of Wills for cash.29 Obviously
no criminal, Millard was, like so many men of his place and time, a victim
of bad luck and unstable economic conditions, and like so many of them,
he turned his eyes westward, hung a "Gone to Texas" sign on his door,
and sailed down the Mississippi and across the Gulf of Mexico to make a
new life for himself.
26Records of Charles DeArmas, Notary Public, September 2, 1835, Notarial Archives, New
Orleans City Hall.
27Galveston County Deed Records, Vol. F, p. 87.
28Records of Charles DeArmas, September 2, 1835, Notarial Archives, New Orleans City Hall.
29Record of the Court of Probate, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 21, 1836, New Orleans
Public Library.[Vol. XXI, No. I
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