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A REPUBLIC OF TEXAS CONSULAR DOCUMENT DATED NEW ORLEANS

A REPUBLIC OF TEXAS CONSULAR DOCUMENT DATED NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 1, 1839, signed by William Bryan, Consul for the Republic of Texas. Bryan, Texas Diplomat, was influential in the formation of the Republic of Texas as one of a group of United States citizens who secretly supported the Texas cause and provided Texas with financial assistance, supplies, and services. On January 14, 1836, he was appointed general agent for Texas in New Orleans. After a few months of providing goods and services to Texas, mostly on credit, he began to worry that Texas and his business would not be able to meet their financial commitments because no cash was coming from the government or Texas commissioners. Unfortunately for him, the Texas government never provided the necessary funds to pay outstanding bills, so Bryan was compelled to borrow cash or use his own capital todelay bill collectors and attempt to maintain good credit. By July 1836, the TX government owed Bryan's firm $77,468, which was later repaid to him in slow moving land scrip.