TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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[Endorsed] Petition from
Lampasas County. Frontier Protection Rec'd Aug 8th 1866
No. 71 PETITION FROM WISE, COOKE, MONTAGUE, CLAY, JACK AND YOUNG COUNTIES TO J. W. THROCKMORTON Sherman July 18th 1866. To his Excellency the Govr. of the State of Texas. The Undersigned would most respectfully show. that Indian Depredations are constantly being made upon our West- ern Frontier. and more especially into the counties of Wise, Cooke, Montague, Clay and Jack and Young Counties and indeed down into the heart of those counties, with a boldness never Known before, Committing Murders and Stealing horses and driving of cattle in large numbers and herds. We are apprised the Regular force of the United States are entirely unable to give protection at this time the Frontiers. We therefore most earnestly ask your Excellency to Authorise the raising of a sufficient force to give such protection as is now immediately needed, to serve untill the U.S. can give us full protection by stationing troops at Various posts for that purpose or otherwise, E. G. Marfide John Wainscott Jno Hall Wm Cloud Hurn McDonald J. Coolie Ranny McDonnal Jarold McDonald I. P. ONeill W. L. Fletcher Cassius McDonald I. W. Crawford Geo Y. Bird Isaac Wainscott Joseph Mains Richard Corn John McKey Cas Carter R. F. Scott H. H. Mooney James Jackson Thos. William D. Benett Cashus McDaniel Theodore Ahart H. Forsythe 0. C. Hull G. W. McDonald C. Smith P. P. Harding R. L. Burns G. A. Grayson J. Harding W. T. Waybourn Jas Jennings J. H. Martin James Dennis N. Hawkins T. B. Eerharte James Gibbens Jas Besett Bees Baker
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