Dexter

DEXTER, PETER BARTELLE (17991876). Peter Bartelle Dexter, soldier and civil servant, was born in Geneva, Ontario County, New York, on November 13, 1799. He moved from Tennessee to Texas in 1834. In 1835 he was elected secretary to the Consultation at San Felipe and later that year was elected secretary to the provisional government . On November 7, 1835, he became one of the signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence . When William B. Travis 's final call for help went out from the Alamo , the citizens of San Felipe elected Joseph Baker to chair a meeting to determine their response. Baker appointed Moseley Baker, John A. Wharton, Alexander Somervell, qqv Dexter, and eight other men to draft a resolution. At the meeting on February 27, 1836, the committee reported that the colonists "must read and act in the same moment or Texas is lost."