[2261] l GREENWOOD to PRESIDENT or CONVENT ION]
March 7th, 1836 To the president of the Convention for Texas now in Session in Washington Much Honored and Dear Sir being deeply impressed with a sense of the dangers to which this place and the adjoining frontier is Exposed from the Indians who inhabit in great numbers this part of the country (viz) the Ionics, the Cadoes, Anadarchs, the Kickapoos, the Ayish, and the Keecheys and Tawaconies are supposed to be not fare north and frequently through the Country. These all range the woods and now and then steel horses, and with them there has that I know of been as yet no settled principal of action nor of friendship established, which leaves us without any grounds of confidence lo expect any thing more of them than has ever been the practice of the savage when the times and Circumstances afforded a favorable opportunity of venting their Malignant spleen There is now in this place about seventy souls in a Defensless condition but few men and armes most of them late emigrants to the country Twenty five miles from the nearest while setllement and not having their families yet provided for for the present year and almost everry thing to do to provide for the next. Being thus surrounded with danger and difficulty unless some thing is done speedily by the Convention for the protection of our frontier families I think that an abandonment of the place and perhapse of the country will probably be the result. Yours &c. Carrison Greenwood (2262] [HOUSTON to COLLINSWORTH]
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Doctor I-loxies', March 7, 1836.
Dear Sir,
Before I proceed on my way this morning, you will allow me to call your attention, if you please, with that of the committee, to the subject of fortifying '"Live Oak Point," on the bay of Copano. Troops coming from the U. States via New Orleans can sail for that point on armed vessels, with artillery and lumber sufficient
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