JACKSON, THOMAS R. (?-1840). Thomas R. Jackson, soldier and attorney, registered for a headright in Benjamin R. Milam's^qv colony, now part of Rusk County, in March 1835. The General Council^qv appointed him quartermaster of cavalry in Sam Houston's^qv army. During the battle of San Jacinto,^qv although an officer in the regular army, Jackson was attached to Capt. Moseley Baker's^qv Company D of Col. Edward Burleson's^qv First Regiment, Texas Volunteers, and fought as a private. In December 1836 he applied for a passport to return to the United States. After the Texas Revolution^qv he practiced law in Bastrop, where he died in 1840. William Cannon was appointed administrator of his estate.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Muster Rolls of the Texas Revolution (Austin, 1986). Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker, eds., The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863 (8 vols., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1938-43; rpt., Austin and New York: Pemberton Press, 1970).

Thomas W. Cutrer