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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
I will Enquire as much as I can and If I find it not a fact that the Cannon at Tinoxticlan is Bursted will send for it. with all dispatch. Majr Gray takes some Powder etc.-We Received a member from Trinity this .morn- •ing to the Council Pettus is a way and we cannot organize sooner than tomorrow though I have assumed the appearances all alone. R R ROYALL [Rubric] • Member of the Council N B I wrote yesterday by Capt Scott. I hope the Powder cannon etc. will soon be on the way from Matagorda
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BARTLETT SIMS TO ROBERT PEEBLES
(Gonzales, October 10, 1835. Wants land reserved.]
P. W. GRAYSON TO AusTIN 1
Camp at Gonzales, October 11, 1835. Quarters of the Council of War-General S. F. Austin-Sir: I am in- structed to inform you that an order was on this day issued by this council calling on the captains of each company to hold an election for a com- mander-in-chief of the volunteer forces of Texas now assembled at this point That election was accordingly held at 4 o'clock P. M. of the present day, and that by the returns to this board of the election held in the dif- erent companies made by the captains thereof, it appears that you have been chosen without opposition commander-in-chief of the volunteer army of Texas now in the field. The members of this ·board take this occasion to congratulate you on the high office to which you have been called. Rely- ing in common with all their fellow-citizens upon the skill and courage with which you will endeavor to conduct the campaign to the desired result, I am with the highest respect your friend and fellow-citizen, P. W. GRAYSON President of the Council. True copy. WILLIAM P. SMITH, Secretary.
AUSTIN'S ORDER BOOK FOR CA:VIPAIGN OF 1835
[Austin's Order Book is published in the Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, XI, 1-55. The dates included in the book are from October 11 to November 24, 1835.]
1 From a printed copy.
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