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of tlie Prairies Peace be with ~'OU may ~-ou Jin: long and be happy Your Brother To Capt Roasting Ear [T. G. WESTERN] Delaware Chief at the Trading House on the Brazos !Endorsed] To) Washington ) ) Jany. 25, 1845 Roasting Ear, Delaware Chief No. 137 LETTER FROM THOMAS G. WESTERN TO ROASTING EAR Washington January 26. 1845- My Brother Information has just been received here that Some Delaware are within in the Settlements around on Boggy in violation of law and disturbing the peace of the inhabitants-It appears that they find some bad white men to sell them whiskey -they get drunk and alarm the women and children of the citizens-A short time since when a great lady a Daughter of Mr. John Durst was on a visit to a neighbor, those Delaware went to the house where she was and behaved in an outrageous manner-and frightened the wom~n so much that they had to leave the house and run off for safety such conduct can be no longer tolerated-it must be stopped, it is your duty as their captain to prevent it you must take measures to keep your men out of the Settlement they must not return there-you know the law-no Indian is permitted to pass below the line of Trading houses, if you do not keep them out we shall have to do it and keep them in their place there are plenty of hunting grounds .above the line and they must hunt there- last year a Delaware named "Black Snake" stole a horse from the whites in Mont- gomery and it is said another horse was stolen by them, this is calculated to make trouble, which I should regret to see-The Delaware are good people and we are friends and brothers- but when there young men drink whiskey they act foolish- The only [way] to prevent this is not to allow them to come
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