[3737] [ RACUET lo BONNELL]
Nacogdocl1es, July 19, 1836. Sir: Before a meeting of the committee of vigilance and safety, an Indian of the Shawnee tribe, named Spy Buck, present- ed himself, and said lhal he had heard from his uncle that a number of Indians, including the Kichies, Towaccanoes, and Cad. does, killed recenlly, at one time, eight America11s, four or five miles below the old Delaware town, 011 Red river, and one after- wards near that place, and that said Indians arc now watching the road; and that the settlers near the fort at Kiamichi had removed to that place; a11d the the Camanches are lo make a descent along the water-courses as far as the main road; they had heen furnished by the Mexicans, after the fall of San Antonio, with arms and ammunition; that said Indians have left their families at the three forks of the Trinity, and that the friendly Jndians are determined not to fight, which determination '111cy intend to express at a meeting about twenty days hence; that one hundred soldiers and one hundred volunteers had left the fort al Kiamichi, ten days since, in pursuit of the Indians who had killed the men before stated, and have not since been heard from. Henry Raguel, Chairman Lieutenant J. Bonnell. [3738) [BONNELL to GAINES] Nacogdoches, July 19, 1836. Sir: , There was a meeting of the commiltce of safety and vigilance at tliis place this morni11g, in conscyuence of the reporl of a Shawnee Indian who arrived this morning. I was requested to allend the meeting, and below I send you the statement made hy him. His name is "Spy Buck," an Indian well known here by the inhabitants for veracity, and I understand a principal man among his tribe. He slates that leis uncle left Red river ten days ago, and brings information that the Camanche, Whacoe, Towacca11oc, Tow-a-as/1, arid Kichie Indians, have made. peace with each other, and have combined against the whites. J le says they have killed nine men, eight al one lime, and one al another, on Sulphur fork,
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