TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916 129 for the Kaw tribe or J. H. Leavenworth of Fort Zarah Should you order her Conveyed to Texas I will See that She has every- thing necessary for the trip Yours Respectfully J. HAMMOND Post Master Council Grove, Kansas [Endorsed] Council Grove, Kansas Dec l0th/1866 J. Hammond statements as to
Mrs. Sarah J. Roberts Indian captive, living now with him etc. Dec. 28 Wrote to him that Mrs. R.'s friends had been notified, & if they failed to send for her I would give him instructions
No. 93A LETTER FROM J.B. DEVENPORT TO HON. W. B. KNOX Bandera, Bandera Co. Texas Dec. 22nd. 1866.
Hon. Wm. B. Knox Sir,
I take the liberty to trespass upon your val- uable time to solicit your assistance & advice under the follow- ing circumstances- Some time in last March a neighboring child -a boy of about 13 years of age- was taken by the Indians close by his home & carried off into captivity- Nothing was heard of him till lately when I received a letter from a friend of mine in Eagle Pass-James Moseley- informing me that the boy is in the hands of Kickapoo or Lipan who are encamped in the vicinity of Santa Rosa, Mexico, about 80 miles from Eagle Pass- Some Mexicans who were in the Indian camp saw the boy & talked with him- they informed my friend that he could
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