This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fletcher, Roddy Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8527 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 16 Jun 1900, p. 3 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas An Old Texas Publication A Citizen of Lee County Finds Fragments of Washington County Paper Special To The News Lexington, Tex., 12 Jun – Recently, when County Treasurer Baylis J. Fletcher of this place was packing to move to the county seat, he discovered among some old books that belonged to his grandfather some newspapers fifty-five years old. Major E. Roddy, the grand sire to whom the books belonged, was a native of Spartanburg, S.C. and came to Texas with his family in 1831. He practiced law at San Felipe and at Washington, but afterward settled at Gay Hill, where he resided in Washington county, when these papers were published. One is the National Register, published at Washington, Texas, October 9, 1845. It was cut in pieces and used with paste in rebinding two volumes of “The French Revolution,” by M. Thiers. Mr. Fletcher soaked the cardboard thus made by his grandmother and peeled off the strips of newspaper, making his discovery. The old Texas paper contains the constitution adopted at annexation signed by the delegates, but torn in fragments. ! It also contains a proclamation by President Anson Jones declaring the result of the election on annexation. It nominates on its own hook Sam Houston and Thos. J. Rusk for United States senators, J. Pinckney Henderson for governor and A.C. Horton for lieutenant governor. Of the delegates to the constitutional convention of 1845 the following names are legible: Thos. J. Rusk, Jno. D. Anderson, James Armstrong, Cavite Armstrong, R.E.B. Baylor, James M. Borroughs, B.C. Bagby, John Caldwell, Edward Clark, A.S. Cunningham, Phil McCuney, N.H. Darrell, James Davis, Lemuel D. Evans, G.A. Everts, R.M. Forbes, D. Gage, John Hemphill, J.P. Henderson, A.O.W. Hicks, S. Holland, Wm. L. Hunter, Van R. Irion, Henry J. Jewett, Oliver Jones, H.L. Kenedy, --- M. Lewis, James Love, --- O. Lumpkin, Sam Lusk, A.S. Lipscomb, James S. Mayfield, Alexander McGowan, A. McNeill, J.B. Miller, Francis Moore, Jr., J. Antonio Navarro, W.B. Ochiltree, Isaac Parker, James Power, Emory Rains, H.G. Reynolds, James Scott, --- M. White, George W. Wright, Wm. Cocke Young. The editor’s name does not appear, but the National Register was published at Washington, Tex., every Thursday at $2.50 per annum. The other paper was the “Spartan” of Spartanburg, S.C. and is in fragments, dated October 8, 1845. It contains little that will interest Texans.