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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
move to Texas. Mrs. Long and her sister Calvert now all moved to this County. They left in the Spring, probably in l\farch, l\lr. Cal- vert had preceded them with his negroes - to the Nache where they made a' crop of corn, Mrs. Long went to Grosses on the Brazos, where she spent the summer there; returned to the nache, and from there to San Fillippe. She reached San Fillippe deer. 1825. Con- tinued San Fillippe till March 1832 when she removed to Brazoria, where she has remained ever since, save a few months when: forced to retreat to Galveston during the l\llexican 'invasion in April 1836- When she landed in San Fillippe she was not in possession of 100$ worth of proprty - she had labored under every privation & is now wealthy[ 1]- She gave Rankin another horse, and recovered her spoons and other articles left with him five years after she departed from Sanjacinto- · During her stay at Bexar, Don Manuel Etudra & wife would have her Longs child christened by the Catholics. Dressing the child in splendid style & giving 4 dols to the girl Kian to carry the child to the Church, they all went; made a great feast & frolick, several hundred dollars were scattered among the poor in the church, & those who could not attend, had the Bala.w, this may not be the right word that is their pa-rt of the distribution money, sent to them. When long after the same child died in Mississippi, on hearing of it at .San Antonio, mass was held for it. Such was the high regard.in which Mrs. Long was held by the Mexicans. . . One faithful dog, that guarded the door of l\Irs. Long's door when she was alone at Bolivar, accompanied her up to Rankin's - he was nearly famished for water and when he got to a stream, drank until it killed him. Benjamin R. l\Iilam. He sail 'd with Trespelacios from Bolivar. Long came on afterward via Labhia, Antonio l\l'onterry. They all roomed together, Jn E Austin with them, in Mexico. Long was killed. l\Iilam sus- pected T'respelacios having some agency in it, he looking on Long as a rival for the chief command of Texas; no satisfactory evidence of this charge however. Trespelacios was appointed Govr. Genl. of Texas. On, his arrival at San Antonio he sent for l\Irs. Long. One of his letters was delivered to l\Irs. Long as she was at the Brazos on her jorney to Bexar; delivered by "\Ym. Hall. In that letter Tres- pelacios speaks of conspiracis against his life by Americans who wish the appointment he recd. of Govr. Texas. Milam & John Austin w~s probably alluded to as the Americans. l\Iilam told l\Irs. Long that he and John Austin and others had conspired against the life of Trespelacios; they followed on after T'respelacios; they the con- spirators were to meet at Saltillo; there some of the party betrayed the matter, and they were all taken back to l\foxico as prisoners. l\Iilam & Austin & all of them'remained inGarserated; after Iterbede was dethroned they were released, and conveyed to Norfolk in Vir- ginia. :Milam ~n his way from Norfolk heard of l\Irs. Long's being in Alexandria· he went immediately to see her; accompanied her on a 'visit to her' sister's ·in Mississippi. "\Vithout going to Texas, he sailed from N 0. to Vera Criz thence to Mexico. Austin & Milam parted' in Norfolk Austin came on to Texas.
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