The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Volume II

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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY

J. N. l\I. Thomson John Craddock W. D. Thomson John Beal [Addressed] To his Excellency ·M. B. Lamar

[Endorsed]

Petition Citizens of Milam

President of the Republic of Texas.

County April 9. '39

City of Houston -

Ko. 1186

1839 Apr. 9, DAVID L. WOOD, HOUSTON, [TEXAS], TO M [IRA- BEAU] B[ONAPARTE] LAMAR, [HOUSTON, TEXAS]

Application for a government clerkship. A. N. S. 2 p.

No. 1187

1839 Apr. 10, JO [HJ X :l\IILTON, NEW ORLEANS, [LOUISIAi\A], TO l\IIRABEAU B[UONAPARTE] LAl\IAR, HOUSTON, ['I'EXAS]

Introducing Alexander l\IcKenzie. A. L. S. 1 p.

No. 1188

1839 Apr. 10, A. S. JOHNSTON TO THE BOWL, [CHEROKEE NATION]

,var Department

Houston 10th April 1839

To

Bowls Chief of the Cherokees in Texas.

Brigr. Genl Douglass has communicated to this Depart- ment for the information of the President the result of your con- ference with the chiefs of parts of tribes of United States indians & others who have participated in acts of hostility against the inhab- itants of this commonwealth-You state that a sincere desire has been evinced by them to resume peaceful relations, with the fron- tier Settlements-Recent devellopements go to show incontestably that the Cherokees or a portion, the Delaware Shawanees, Kicapoos, Caddoes, "\Vacoes, Tiwankonees, Bedies, Kechies had (about the time you were with them) entered into a compact with Cordova to-carry on the vVar as soon as he should return with supplies from Mata- moras- The assertion that Cordova had endeavered to agitate & encite in council & had been driven off, we have a right to infer was _a collusive agreement to gain time and to conceal the object of his

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