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until you returned me the paper I gave you, and Mills gave counter instructions to J Baker &c- A k him what has been done with Clokey- Austin et. al. Something has been collected of Sweeny by h.im-I will draw for it- when I know how much it i -
As ever
your friend Travis
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[A-ddrc ed] Henry Smith Esqr.- Columbia on Bra oria.
Letter of Mr. Travi San Felippe June 9th. 1835
No. 203
1835 June 22, JOHN W. MOORE, WILLI.AM: B [ARRET] TRAVIS, A D OTHERS, S FELIPE DE AUSTl1, [TEXAS]3 8 Agreement "to rendezvou at Lynches on San Jacinto on Saturday next armed and equiped" for an expedition to disarm "the military of Anahuac.'' Copy. 2 p. No. 204 [1835' June 27-July 21], ACCOU T OF THE CAPTURE OF A AHUAC A D EJECTIO . OF TENORIO BY MOORE, TRAVIS, ETC. 39 Remarks · - I left Sanfelipe de Austin on _the 23rd. of June 1835 & returned to thi place (Harrisburgh) with the foregoing 40 & on my arrival a num- ber of the citizens a signed it some of them went to anahuac & others remained at home (we chat·tered the Soop Ohio owned by Capt David Harris & furnished provisions &c and left this place armed and equiped for the expedition on the 27th. of June ;r. John W. Moore left about 4 o'clock P M -kept under way all night the yawl boat ahead & 2 left Sweeps or oars on the Sloop, arrived at Lynchburgh next morning whare we ware cooly treated by him, forris & others came on board - He remained but a short time at the above place from whence we proceded down the Bay. About 9 oclock '\Ve came too at Clappers point where we proceeded to hold an election for officers, result of the Election Wm. B. Travi Capt. Ritson Morris 1 Lieut. Ash- more Edwards 2 Lieut. Capt. Appointed John W Moore. Orderly Sergt. We then weighted anchor and proced towards Anuac hove in sight about 4 oclock P l\I, see a sail boat off upposed to be maned by Mexicans Capt Travis then ordered John W Moor to proceed with the- '"Printed in The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, IV, 199. ..Anonymous. ••A copy of no. 203 [?].
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