Papers of Robert Potter (ca. 1800-1841), signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and United States congressman from Texas, contain letters written 1939-1944 concerning Potter's career in the United States Navy and a typed copy of a portion of an undated autobiographical sketch by Harriet (Moore) Page Potter Ames, wife of Robert Potter, vividly describing her life in New Orleans, Louisiana; immigration to Texas and frontier life; and the killing of Robert Potter during the Regulator- Moderator War in east Texas, 1841.
