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charge of and beged me very hard to say nothing about it as it had been confided to him as a great ecrete I teold him I should inform the town immediately for the citizens lives had been exposed throught the villany of the Auamentoes I had just entered wh~n one Reos rode up and said that :Mr James Power ent him to take them away I staid however and looked over the 4/4 sheeting and saw him take away 3 ps. of about 50 yds each and one ps. I should suppose con- tained about 25 yds, he al o took away a part [of] The corn, and said he would return an[d take] away the ballance- -12 oclock I was arou [sed] by the trampl,ing of horses feet near the house, got up and opened the door when four men came up to the hous and called for whiskey l\irs. Foley who remains in my family having some for sale got up and supplied them after lighting a candle, They were . Victorianna Guards pie Pomuna J\Ialloy a brother of Mrs. Power and an Irishman a Black mith who shewed my house I re- quested Ur. Foley to inform the brother of ~{rs. Power of the sheeting and soon, He said in reply to lr. Foley that bis sister had not au- thorized Reo to take tho e thing 2 th. Walked out early and found the 3 :Mexicans above mentioned taking away the sheeting, There was no corn and I think not so much sheeting a la t night, I think that Reos must have come back and taken away the corn and some more of the sheeting after I saw him in the evening, There has been a good deal o[f] plundering during the day by the 1\fexicans and Indians, Feather beds opened and feathers scattered to the winds, for the purpose of ascertaining if there was any money secreted in them In the morning a party of 7 Rancheros came armed to my house for the purpose of plunder, but seeino- Irs. Foley my brother in law A Horborn and myself all well armed they did not think it best to attempt it and were quite civil - 27th. Took from some Mexicans who encamped in my yard a market which they had robbed from one of the deserted houses, perhaps I had better hav[e) let them have it for they swear vengeance, and-have been informed that they have ,ooen end[eavor]ing to obtain the consent of their leader r 1 ]labapos to rob and murder me which be has refu[sed] some horses have been taken out of the town heavily loaded with plunder this day-March 1st. Recd. information from an undoubted source that my family would be much safer were I ab ent that the Rancheros in consequence of the active part I have taken in the present struggle, are determined to take my life and rob my house my wife is much alarmed and mges me very hard to leave her for a place of safety but if I leave my family I shall go to the ·Army, 1\Iarch 2d. I walked out thi morning [and saw] a man [who wa ] approaching the hou [~e] with great caution, I we11t towards him and called him to me he proved to be a volunteer by name loses, who made his escape from an engagement which took place yesterday about 20 miles beyond San Patricio between the other portions of the small force which composed the party of Col Johnson Grant &c Col Grant commanded and was killed as also fajor Morris and most of the men I took Moses to my house and gave him his breakfast after which I went with him to Goliad, one hors [e] carried our baggage, one alternately riding one after another we arrived at
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