Jan. 1 1835 to Sep. 30 1835 - PTR, Vol. 1

Agosto 11. de 1835.= Pedro Elias Bean.= Sr. D. Domino- 0 de Ugartechea Comte. Pral de Beajr.= t- Es copia Bejar 8. de Sete. de 1835.= Uf!artechea.

[611] [FORBES ET AL to JACKSON]

Nacogdoches, Texas, Sept. 11th, 1835

To his Excellency, Andrew Jackson, President of the U. S. Sir: The undersigned commillee of vigilance and safety, for the department of Nacogdoches, feel constrained from the peculiar situation in which they are place, to address you excellency on a subject of grave and serious importance lo the community of which they form a part. During the last spring, two men, one by the name of Archibald Hatchkiss, and empressario, and Benjamin Hawkins, a quarteroom Creek Indian, made a contract with Apothleyahola, and other chiefs of the Creek nation, who were at this place, to procure for them a grant of land, which had been made by the .l\'lexican government to general Felasolo. In consideration of which the Indians were to pay to them the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. An arrangement was made by which they actually received from the Indians at New Orleans the sum of twenty thousand dollars. Hotchkiss and Hawkins then proceeded to New York, to obtain the grant from the agent of general Felasolo, but they failed in the purchase. Since then they have returned to Texas, and Hawkins has recently left this country for the United State, with the avowed and manifest intention of introducing into Texas not less than five thousand Creeks, so soon as it will be possible for them to reach here. The residue of the nation lo join them as soon as they can remove to this country. The undersigned conceiving the whole transaction to be in contravention to the thirty-third article of the treaty of amity and commerce, concluded between the republic of Mexico and the United Stales, on the 5th of April, 1831, in the city of Mexico, have deemed it necessary, most respeclfully, lo solicit of your excellency, that the "incursion" of those Indians may be prevented-a sparse and comparatively defenceless population

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