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on to the Trinity whre he got provisions & prepared for further advance i.nto the Coutry- 18th August 1812 the 4 men of :McGee drove back San Brannon- just one year there after the Am.ericns were defeated at Madino-- fo 1806 Wilkerson & Herrero, had agreed that the land between the Oro Horyo and the Sabine should be neutral ground & not to be occupied by either party. The Spaniards complied, but the Ameri- cans, in violation of the understanding, trespa ed upon the nutral gro.und, and formin(P a strong party, \\·ould plunder the Spaniards or Guarchpins in their trading at r'acogdoches. The Spanish Con- sul at .1 • orlean complained to the Govt. of the US ,vhich ordered the commandnt of the post at 1 ratchitoches to drive them off. McGee a Lieutenant at the post was depuJ;ed to this ta k, which he did with great ri(Por and sevirity, lashing many of them & burning their · houses. He was by nature a tyrant- Whel1 Gutaris was sent as an agent to raise assistance in the US. 1\Ionshack came_ with him; he stopped at Natchitoches whilst Gutaris went on to Washingtou- 1\laoshack remaining behind on the nutral ground for a short time when he was bribed by. the Socado, Herrera, Marcu [s] and others to abandon the cause, which he did; but he no sooner returned to St Antonio than he ·was seized by these very men and beheaded- . Shortly after his leavig the Neutral ground, l\IcGee was orded to drive off the intruders-he did so & had just finished his task as Gutaris returned from Washington City- Gutaris now offered him, that if he. would resign his Leutenancy in the US. army, he :;hould be commis- sioned a Colonel in the l\Iexican Service. IIe accepted the offer; and ralling about 60 men, drove back San Brannan as has been tated- 1 . McGee on entering into service found that many of the men whom he had drive1! 9fl_th reut1·al ground were now marshelled under his conuriand, and as he had been very tyranical in the execution of his task ot_expelling_tJ1em; he expected to be a as inatcd by them; the'y were never fully reconciled to him; and though he died of the Con- sumption at Labihia, it is believed by . omc that he was poisoned in revenge of his severe treatmnt to the [ ) 8 whom he had 1 abused- lt. Sa.ml. Kcmpe1: was said to be a good officer; after the ~fedena crape he went to the US; was with Jack on at N.O. and died shortly after- wards with the mea els in [18) 15. He was from Obio-35 year of arre --cluing the war Reuben Ross from Virginia about 30 in the wnr. He was of fair character; brave &c. Some years after he obtained n Colonization grant on the Red River; as he wa on hi way from the Interior he wa murdered by his 1\Texican ervt. Young was a New Yorker; an officer in the Us service during the war with G. Britain-joined l\Iina- Gutaris was a good Patriot
Hunter was suppo cd to have been cnt on by the Dritis Govt. as an •The original contains the word "Intruders" with a line drawn through
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