[Autograph letter, signed, laced...
A remarkable letter by a pro-slavery Northerner who emigrated to Texas in 1837, shortly after the Revolution, and settled in Independence, located in Washington County, in southeast Texas. Independence, founded in 1835, is about 80 miles northwest of Houston. Edward Wyllis Taylor (1814–1886), born in Sunderland, Massachusetts, was a self-exiled.....