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No. 77 LETTER FROM G. W. TODD TO J. W. THROCKMORTON Mason, Mason Co Texas August 27th 1966.
To his Excellency the Governor.--
1 can only hope you will pardon me for giving you a partial and brief acount of the awful affairs on the frontier The Indians made a recent raid on the head of the ~an Saba, killed Wm McDougal, wounded a Miss Schellenberger, drove off from five to six thousand head of Cattle, and all the horses in the vicinity. They were not less than 150 Indians the third day afterwards 51 men started in persuit but have re- turned without effecting any good, I went up to follow them but was too late, My object in writing this is to impress on your mind that the people of the frontier must have help and if the General Government wont give it the State must, or the frontier will be broken up, I have already apprised you of my misfortune i.e. the death of my wife and the Capture of my daughter by the Indians My dear child is still if living a captive among them, with others, and as I am poor and I suppose those who are like sufferers with me are poor too, I would suggest the propriety of having money set apart by the Legislature to reclaim all captives among them, Could money be appropriated for a better or holier purpose, you may not remember me, but I know you, I saw you last in Deer 1853 when you, "Bill" Bour- land and others were in the Legislature and had taken lodgings in a small house near the Capital. The Bourlands know me and are my friends--
I am Most Resepectfully Your Obt Servt. GEO W. TODD
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The murder of McDougal and wounding of Miss Schellen- berger reported in Official Report of County Judge of Menard County G. W. Todd Sept 8/66
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