Cherokee settlement, and is well acquainted with them; that there is no doubt of their hostile intentions, and that they expect to he joined by other tribes; that Bowles, the chief, advised him to move away, and he did so, leaving his property behind, and only saving his family, from a conviction of their danger; that Bowles told him that large bodies of Indians and Mexicans were crossing the Trinity at Cenmanabel crossing, about·a hundred miles west-by-north of this plac~, and that the number of Indians was estimated at from 1,400 to 1,700, and that they gave him this advice, as they said they did not wish to hurt him, and that he should give the same advice to all his neighbors. Taken in the presence of the committee. Henry Raguet, Chairman. The deposition of M. B. Menard, taken before the committee of vigilance and safety, at Nacogdoches, on the 11th of April, 1836: who states, that by request of the authorities of the country, he has visited the Shawnees, Delaware, and Kickapoo tribes of Indians, residing about seventy-five miles north of this place; that he held a talk with the chiefs of said tribes, who gave him an assurance of their friendly disposition, and that they had been visited by Bowles, the Cherokee chief, to induce them to take up arms against the Americans, and they had refused to comply with his solicitations; and that Bowles told them that the Cherokees meant speedily to fall on the Americans, and that they were inducing other tribes to join them. M. B. Menard. Taken in presence of the committee. Henry Raguel, Chairman. The committee of vigilance and safety certify that the above-named gentlemen are individuals of the first respectability, in whose statements we place implicit confidence.
F. Thorn, D. A. Hoffman, Henry Raguet, J. Roberts.
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