The
Boon’s Lick Times published the article below on September 2, 1843. The first two columns are about the charges Republic of Texas President Sam Houston brought against Commodore Moore after the flag-raising expedition to Cozumel.
The third column is about Captain George D. Boylan, who was also on the 1837 expedition and in command of the schooner of war
Brutus. Boylen was George Fisher’s Masonic Lodge brother in Galveston, Texas. Boylan was scheming to get free land on Cozumel for his men and himself. Nothing ever came of it.
The
Port Gibson Herald, of Port Gibson Mississippi printed the article below on August 24, 1843. Port Gibson is the town where George Fisher’s ex-wife and children lived. Fisher was one of the partners in Sam Houston’s company that was formed in Galveston with the goal of buying Cozumel. Fisher is also the one who went to Cozumel to place the survey markers in preparation for the company’s purchase of the island. Fisher divorced his wife through a special bill in the Texas Legislature, obtained by calling in favors. In 1831, Fisher had been in charge of Mexican Customs in Anahuac in the Mexican province of Texas, before he switched sides and joined Austin in the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe, prior to the Texas declaration of independence. After 1836, Fisher became a Major in the Texan Army. He has a fantastic life story, which I tell in my book.
The New York Herald printed the following article on August 25, 1843.
