. ' .
l
[1642] [STROTHER DEPOSITION]
Consulate of the U.S. A., Matamoras, Mexico.
Jimmerson Strother, a citizen of the United States of America and a resident of the State of Mississippi, being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, deposes and says: That on the 13th day of November last past, he set sail on board the American schooner Hannah Elizabeth, from the port of New Orleans, bound for the port of Matagorda, Texas; that on the 18th day of the same month, the said vessel stranded on the bar in attempting to enter Matagorda bay, in which unfortunate condition she was. fire into by the Mexican armed schooner General Bravo, and boarded by about hventy armed soldiers under the command of two officers, who forcibly took him, (this deponent,) together with others belonging to the wreck, on board the Bravo, where he was chained down in the hold of that vessel until her arrival off this port of Matamoras on the 2d instant, when he was landed at the Brazos de Santiago, and placed under a guard of soldier~, until he was liberated on the 24th instant, by order of the commandant of this place, after having been subjected to a rigid confinement of thirty-six days. And this deponent further says that he was, at the time of his capture, a passenger on board the Hannah Elizabeth, had no interest in her cargo, nor was he a soldier in the actual service of an enemy to the Mexican Government. And further this deponent saith not. Jimmerson Strother. Sworn lo and subscribed before me, this 28th day of December, 1835. D. W. Smith, U.S. A. Consulate of the U.S. A., Matamoras, Mexico. I Daniel W. Smith, consul of the United States of America , at this port of Matamoras, do hereby certify and attest that the preceding affidavit _is, ~ true_ and faithful copy of the original act registered in my office m register B, fols. 102, J 03. In testimony whereof, J have hereunto subscribed my
I •
' i I I I 1 !'
I
356
:-1
I
! I , I I I
Powered by FlippingBook