Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas. This is your host Ken Wise. Thank you so much for tuning in today. To this

episode recorded and released 186 years after the siege of the alamo. I'm releasing this the week of the

anniversary of the seizure of the alamo and only a couple of days from the

last episode I released and the reason is I wanted to get a couple of days from the last episode I released and the reason is I wanted to get a

couple of episodes out about some Alamo defenders that you may not have heard of

while we're all remembering the Alamo this week.

So today I want to talk about a gentleman named Amos Pollard,

Dr Amos Pollard, actually.

Dr Pollard was born in 1803 in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. He grew up in New Hampshire.

He received a medical degree in 1825 at the Vermont College of Medicine.

He practiced medicine in New York, got married, and had a family.

He appears in Stephen F. Austin's Register of Families as arriving in Texas,

December 23, but alone his family remaining in New York.

Now I need to clear something up.

I just said arriving.

That's the date of the application for his land grant and he had an acquaintance of his make the application for him.

But the application was made December 23, 1833, and the notation is in there not only that he's a physician,

but that his family remained in New York.

Pollard participated in the Battle of Gonzales, the famous Come and Take It battle in October 1835.

And we need to digress for a minute.

There's a little controversy about where Pollard was living at the time.

Many histories list him as a resident of Gonzales.

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