Sam Houston was a bodyguard to Gen. George Washington and was one of the first residents of Searsport, Maine. He is depicted in the painting Washington Crossing the Delaware, and his cutlass and chest are on display at the Penobscot Marine Museum. Year of birth missing Year of death missing 18th-century American people Continental Army soldiers People of Maine in the American Revolution Bodyguards People from Searsport, Maine George Washington

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Sam Houston was a bodyguard to Gen. George Washington and was one of the first residents of Searsport, Maine. He is depicted in the painting Washington Crossing the Delaware, and his cutlass and chest are on display at the Penobscot Marine Museum.

Notable quotes

“Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. it ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.”
— As quoted in the Sam Houston Memorial Museum.
“Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.”
— As quoted in the Sam Houston Memorial Museum.
“All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.”
— As quoted in the Sam Houston Memorial Museum.
“Whatever is calculated to weaken or impair the strength of Union, whether originating at the North or the South, whether arising from the incendiary violence of abolitionists, or from the coalition of nullifiers, will never meet with my unqualified approval.”
— As quoted in Sam Houston (2004), by James Haley, University of Oklahoma Press