Collin Chronicles, Volume 10, Number 2, Winter 1989-1990 Page: 3 of 29
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PENDLETON FAMI LY RECORDS
JOHN PENDLETON LETTERS
Collin County, June the 3d 1859
Dear Brother Thos. HORTON I sit down this evening to drop you a few lines to
let you know that we are all well and well pleased with the country hoping
these few lines will find you and family enjoying the same like blessings. I
would have written to you before but did not know where to direct my letter
until I reed a letter from James DUNCAN which informed me you was in the Cove.
I will try to give you a description of Collin Co. As far as I have seen for
beauty and soil it cannot be beat on earth. The Prairies lies high and just
rolling enough to drain the water off between the branches of the Sabine. The
Prairies is about 1/2 mile wide and on the branches timber enough to answer
the demands of the country. These branches run up to the divide between the
Sabine and Trinity rivers and some of them is from 1/2 mile to 50 miles in
length. These Prairies are covered with grass that looks like a wheat field
with numerous heards of cattle and deer and sometimes can be seen twenty in a
gang. The Prairies at this season of the year is over spread with flowers of
every tint and hue. The land is all taken up in Collin Co. but a plenty for
sale. I know of three four hundred acre tracts it is said can be had for
$2.00 per acre one half timber and the other half Prairie land and a great
many other tracts that can be had for $2.50 per acre. If you intend to move
to this country the sooner you come the better it will be for you as land is
rising very fast. There is a 330 acre tract joining me that has got a good
double house orchard and about 45 acres in cultivation that can be had for
$3000.00. I think this will be a great season for people to move to Texas as
there was plenty of wheat made and a good looking chance for corn. If I was
young and back in Virginia and knew what I now know about Texas I could not be
kept there. I would beg my passage to Texas. My opinion is that Collin Co.
is a great deal healthier place than the Rye Cove. The water does not lie on
the ground and the springs and wells is not fed by stagnated water. There is
allways a pleasant air stiring on the Prairies though very sultry in the
timber. Our wheat harvest is over and the people is generally done laying by
their corn and better looking corn I never saw grow out of the ground.
Please tell Mr. Robert F. DORTON that he could do much better in this country
than in Va. as good Wagon making can do well here. I will now bring my letter
to a close as I want to write a few line to Brother Harry CARTER. Please
write as soon as this comes to hand and let me know how you are getting along.
To Thos. HORTON
(signed) John PENDLETON
Collin County, Texas, June the 3d 1859
Dear Brother and Sister in Christ. I take this opportunity to drop you a few
lines to let you know that we are all well and well satisfied with the country
hoping these few lines may find you enjoying the same like blessings. I have
had better health since I left Va. for the same length of time than I have had
for many years. I should like very much to see you once more in the flesh but
I never expect to see you until the Judgment of the great day but hope in God
to see you in that better world where parting will be no more. I have often
thought of you and drempt of seeing you. O how glad I was. I often think of
being at your house and seeing old Harry smile when I slept in and the many
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Collin County Genealogical Society. Collin Chronicles, Volume 10, Number 2, Winter 1989-1990, periodical, 1990; Plano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth10801/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.