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| | Jacob H. Garner: A Jefferson County Militiaman of the Texas Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | David Garner was elected sheriff of Jefferson County on three occasions, in 1839 (resigned), 1843, and 1845, and served two years, 1839-1840, as Jefferson County's representative in the Texas Congress. |
 | | 11 In 1846, Jacob Garner ran for and was elected district clerk of Jefferson County, and since the principal task of that office was to record the minutes of the quarterly assizes of the district court, he must have considered himself sufficiently qualified to discharge those duties. |
 | | In 1844, the French ambassador to Texas described it as a ramshackle village, consisting of "eight or ten sorry wooden shacks," a rather harsh evaluation by the debonair Parisian, County Dubois de Saligny. |
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