[2284) (PIERSON to ACTING GOVERNOR]
Milam March 9th 1836
To his Excellency the acting governor of Texas Dr Sir
I hereby accept the appointment of aidecamp for the jurisdiction and shall forth with proceed to the organization of the militia the first class will rendezvous at this place on the 19th inst ready for march as soon as the necessary arms ammunition provision &c-can be procured, which I shall be compelled to procure from below from the situation of this country I take the liberty of suggesting the propriety of my ordering the troops from this section against the indians it is here stated that mexicans have been seen among the indians and from their movements it is believed an attack from that quarter is intended on the whites ere long this suggestion I make and shall await the advice of your Excellency on the subject your Excellency is not perhaps apprised that the people here are thinly settled and in an entirely defenceless situation Respectfully yr obt servt J. G. W. Pierson Aicldecamp
[2285) [BROOKS to BROOKS]
Fort Defiance, Goliad, Texas, ;\'larch 10, 1836.
.My dear Father:-
1 wrote to Mother and to l\ilary Ann a few days since; but, as the route over which the Government's courier, who carried the letters, must have passed has been infested by advanced parties of the enemy, it is possible they have been intercepted; and, as an officer will be sent lo Matagorda lo morrow, l have concluded Lo write again. Copano, al the head of the Aransasso Bav, where we debarked, and landed our stores, munitions, and artfllery. After a days march, we pitched our tents at the :\lission of R<'fu~io. in :\Ir. Power's grant, and remained for a few da~•!'-, in onh·r to mab·
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