Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. II

TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1844-1845

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No. 34 ACCOUNT OF INDIAN BUREAU WITH W. P. RUTLEDGE [May, 1844] Indian Bureau To W. P. Rutledge 1844 To Repq. Gun for Coushatta Indians May Ben-Ash · Dr. $3.00

Washington 22 March 1845.

Received on approved account for Three Dollars of which the above is a copy--- Wm. P. Rutledge [Endorsed] Encd. W. P. Rutledge-22 Mar./45 $3.00

No. 35 STATEMENT OF LUIS SANCHEZ AS TAKEN BY WALTER WINN [May, 1844] That in company with Daniel G. Watson, a white man and John Conner, a Delaware Indian, he left the Settlement in the month of February last, that he was taken ill at Franklin, but con- tinued on to the Anadarko Village (Jose Maria the Chief) about fifty miles above the Council ground on Tehuacana Creek-there he gave up, being two ill to proceed. Conner and Watson, after some days delay left him and went on to the Comanche, telling him when able to travel, he might follow to the Clear Fork of the Brazos-and there remain until their return. About 15 days after, being better, he left for the Keechi village, 200 miles above the Anadarko town, upon the east bank of the river, and 15 or 17 miles from the Clear Fork. While there two Comanche came in. they told him their Chief Pahaencah had lost a son "in the Spanish war, in consequence of which he had killed his horses, destroyed his lodges and taken new skins to the Salt Plains, there to erect new lodges and make a new home. the account he gave of the old woman pleased the Comanche much: they said

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