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name of \'i"hom are manifested in documt.• ro. 15,-pre ented them- elve . Proceeding now from Bayo Pierre; and after accepting the! kindnc [?] of our Government, manifested their fonde t [ T] de- sire to return to the ancient ettlcment of Nacogdoches, and be gov- erned hy the legitimate anthorities of the country, but, to enable tbem to do o they required a garrison sufficient to defend & protect them from robberies and other outrage. to which they were con- stantly rnbject from the revolntioni ts. Some of them had made the experiment of transferring their re idence even beyond that plaee (Baro Pierre) and had· experienced nothing better than continual extortious & forciblc> ·contribution of that most neceiosarv for their . ubsU<'n~e. If they attempted to resist these injustices:their lins were threatened. and ,vhich they ""f;?re only able tb presen·e by ceeding free use of themselves & their .. To avoid these opresions they were forced to retnm to the new 'panish ettlements, Adais & the 3 plains & to Bayo Pierre. Great & repeated were the npplications of these ancient Spaniards for the object of their olicitnde, as uring me that, without fail, all of them & their families would he transferred to that place (Nacogd .) immediately upon the requisite garrison being e ·tabli bed- I was necessarily obliged to remain in Nacogdoches, until the re- turn of some mule I had sent to a place on the Atoyaque River to bring corn for the troops. I visited the church and beheld with sentiments of deep regret that that Holy Temple had become a ,vork shop for carpenters & mechanicks, a shelter for the brute, & a lodg- ing- place for the salvage. I ordered it to be cleaned & swept out, and a strong fence made around the doors, wl1ich would at least keep out animal , though I knew it would not debar the salvage, nor the heathen foreigner. In order to accelerate my march, as much as possible, to the camp on the Trinity, I ordered lieut. F. Rodrigues, with 45 men, to take charge of all the prisoners & proceed thither, and also Juan Jose Cabasos witn 15 men to accompany him with all the surplus hor es & equipage, remaining myself with the remainder of the division entirely unimbara sed by anything that might retard my march. In order to satisfy myself effectually, whether there was or not, any remaining body of Banditt in the country, I dispatched a courier to the Spani h Vice Conn ul at achitoches, D. Felix Trudeaux, who in return informed me that there was none. Availing myself ·al o of the pre ent opportunity to examine the old residents of the extingui hed town of Nacogdoche on the ubject, I gave order to my 1 t. Aid de Camp, D. Manl. Delgado, to take the declarations upon oath of D. gnacio Ybarba & D. Jo e Lafitt, on this ubject, which proceeding I remit in documt. 1 ro. 18, as also that of Jo ' Doste, Doct. No. 19, the result of which proves that there are 2 or 3 new settlements forming at Point Pecan; and that the pirate Lafitt ifJ still on Galveston J. land. The 1st of these points is confirmed by the declaration of an American, who on the 2nd. inst. incautiou ly arrived at acogdoehes & wa cnptured & secured with the re t of the prisoner . Upon being a ked, throngh an interpreter, from whence he proceeded, he answ red irom Pecan Point, ,vhere he said
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