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HENRY MILLARD, FORGOTTEN TEXIAN
siana, had sold Letitia Inge to Joseph Pulsifer, who in turn resold her to
Millard's oldest son, thirteen-year-old Frederick Sipe Millard. According
to the deed, she was to have "free use of her own time to labor or follow
any honest employment to support herself that she chose," as long as she
paid Frederick Millard $12 yearly.71 Millard's name was never mentioned,
and in the meantime, he had seen to the welfare of his dependents.
Millard nearly got his longed-for military action in the spring of 1841,
when, in keeping with his expansionist policy, President Lamar decided to
send the Santa Fe Expedition to occupy the Territory of New Mexico. It
was a fiasco, ill-conceived and ill-planned from the beginning, but the Grand
Lodge of Texas saw it as an opportunity to charter a new Masonic Lodge
in Santa Fe. Millard, at the time serving as secretary of the Grand Lodge,
was listed as a member of the Expedition, and would certainly have been
a logical choice to convey the charter to Santa Fe.72
When the Expedition left from Austin on June 21, however, Millard
was not with it. Doubtless he planned to go, but in all probability, his well-
documented impatience with inefficiency caused him to abandon the whole
project in disgust. When the Expedition was captured that November, the
Mexican authorities sought in vain "the foreigner Enrique Millard,...whom
the Supreme Government has especially recommended," probably because
he had wanted to hang Santa Anna at San Jacinto. A letter from Millard
to Huling, dated Beaumont, December 15, 1841, firmly establishes his
presence in Southeast Texas during the time the survivors of the Expedi-
tion were languishing in captivity.73
By the spring of 1841, Texians' attention had turned once again to
politics, where Houston and David Burnet were preparing to square off in
the upcoming election. Millard's friendship with Houston, as well as his
hatred of Burnet, made his enthusiastic espousal of Houston's campaign
a foregone conclusion. From Austin, he wrote Huling that support for
Houston "appears to be the order of the day....Burnet," he concluded
7lIbid., Vol. D, pp. 125-126.
72James David Carter, Masonry in Texas: Background, History, and Influence to 1846 (Waco:
Committee on Masonic Education and Service for the Grand Lodge of Texas A.F. & A.M.),
Tyrrell Historical Library, Beaumont, Texas.
73Herbert E. Bolton, Transcripts of Documents concerning the Santa Fe Expedition, Trans-
lated by H. Bailey Carroll, Vol. II, 58, 80, Barker Texas History Center. Noel M. Loomis, The
Texan-Santa Fe Pioneers (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press), p. 268.Nov. 19851
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