The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Volume I

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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LA;-.t,\R

No. 236

1835 Oct. 4, DOl\IINGO DE UGARTECIIEA, REX.AR, fTEXAS] TO STEPHE F[ULLER] AUSTI1, [SA FELIPE DE AUSTIN! TE AS] 68 Answering Austin's letter of [Sept.] 15; hope of good results from A.ustin 's counsels to the disaffected colonists; a review of recent events, noting especially the ejection of Tenorio, the procedure of land peculators after the clo e of the State Legislature, his own con- ciliatory action and demand for "the delinquents [Travis, etc.]," the late trouble over the Gonzale -cannon and his own plan to send troops to ·enforce its surrender, and bis attituqe, personal and official, toward the Texans. Copy. 4 p. Engli h version. TO. 237 1835 Oct. 6, J. H. MOORE ".1'0 [\V. D. C.] HALL A D OTHERS Head Quuters ) 10 0 'clock at bi ht Gonzales October '6, 1835 ) Col. Ugarterchea with 500 troops and 3 pieces of cannon Started from San Antonio for this place ·he is expe'Cted to arrive here to- morrow. We now have a few more than 400 troops-You will please to hasten your March .and join us as Soon as you possibly can.- to Capt. Hall -and ) Yr . Respty others ,vho .are marching ) John I-1. Moore to Gonzales ) Col. Comat.

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[1835 Oct. 6], VOLUNTEER ARl\fY OF TEXAS, [G01 ZALES, . TEXAS] Resolution adopted at a meeting of "-the captains of the several companies." Copy. · 1 p: 89 • In no. 2178, p. 5 No. 239 1835 Oct. 7, VOLU TEER ARMY OF TEXAS. BOARD OF WAR, [GO ZALES, TEXAS]7° Resolution. Copy. 1 p. In no. 2178,, p. 5. "'Copy. To be printed In the Austin Papers from which Lamar bor- rowed it. "Printed by Bryan, G. M., in .A. Oomprehen ive Htstory of Texas, I, G38. '"Printed by Bryan, G. M., in .A. Comprehensive History of Texas, I, 539. JC-Library.

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