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P.\PERS OF MrnABEAU BuoNA£ARTE LAM.\R
corruruss10ns from each party met about 3 miles above Liberty and entered into 'freaty 38 but before conclndi[n]g the same, they all went up to Padrez's encampment & there with Padraz confirmed the same. Padrez himsilf with the Americans & t\vo or 3 of his own officers pro- ceded to 'l'urtle Bayou, & thence to Anahuac to regulate Bradburn. Bradbnm, fled under an assnmed name to :N'. Orleans.- The day t11e treaty was first made with Bradburn for the release of our prisoners, some fifty of our men lingered in town that night but the next day they all departed save some 4 or 5 who still tarried abont there; this was Bradburr II 's] pretext for violating the treaty, but his real motive was that he·treated only because he was cut off from his supplies, and so soon as the evacuati [o] n placed these again in his reach, he no longer tl1on(gh]t of his faith...- it was only a stratagem to get po·ssession of them. The above-I get from .Judge ITarden at Liberty The Mexican officers were removed from Galveston Island to Lib- erty in the l_atter part of August (26) and placed under the care of Jbdge IIarden-Bringas, Campos & Pedraza were released ,on the 15th April 1837. by an executive order procnred by me some days previous & delivered on the above date- . [Endorsed] Anahuac statement from Judge Harden 15 April 1837
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No. 546
1837 Apr. 18, W.[ILLIAnI] ,JEFFERSON JONES, :MOBILE, [ALABAl\fA] TO :MIRABEAU BfUONAPARTE] LAl\fAR, [IIOUSTO.N? 'l'EXAS] Introducing his brother, J. S. Jones; a· late letter in regard to a draft of Lamar's; his own plans. A. L. S. 2 p.
No. 547
[1837? c. Apr.18'1, U. ~ -LAl\fAR, NECHES RIVER?]. INFORl\IA- TION CONCERNING PIEDRAS & BRADBURN & BEAN 'l'hus Cl\1oses) (Austin) like his namesake.of old, saw a far off the promised Land; but his son Stephen led l1is followers to it- l . . Noland or Nowlan About 1797 or 8 this man obtained a pasport from Giosa, then Govr. of Natches & afterwards Govr of .N. Orleans, to enter this forbidden Territory ITe had penetrated as far as Giosa had permission to allow him to go, when he was ordered by the authority of th'e Country to halt and give an account of the object of his visit; he refused to respect "Printed in The Q1wrterly of the Texas State Historical A.ssociation, VI, 293, from a copy in the Nacogdoches Archives. 35-Llbral'J'.
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