TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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son made bis escape came in and gave the alarm the citizens raised a party and pursued them but could not overtake them. In the vicinity in which they stoled the horses they killed two men a Mr Scraggs and Vanhook and a Mr Hardy was missing suposed to be killed. The Indians are steeling and prowling about in almost evry diraction My address is Cherokee PO San Saba Texas. Yours in haste WILLIAM B. DA VIS Esc. [sic] Capt. [Endorsed] W. B. Davis San Saba Cheroti:ee PO Feby 15, 1860
No. 7 LETTER FROM T. H. ESPY TO SAM HOUSTON Lampasas Texas Feby
15th, 1860
Genl Sam Houston
Respected Sir. Having just returned from the Brazos north east of this and hearing so much of Indian depredations at the request of some of our citizens I write a / ew of the re-. ports and facts- just occurred. About the 7th 8th and 10th of Feby- The indians attacked the frontier beginning at Paluxy in Erath County where a woman and two children are reported murdered, two young ladies carried off stripved and violated then loosed in the prairie- On the 8th they killed two brothers Monroe from North Carolina lately emigrated Six miles Nor West of Meri- dian in Bosque Co. Same day killed as reported two men split- ting rails on Meridian Creek same county next day shot two Baptist Preachers Griffin and White about 10 miles North of Gatesville who must die their wound being considered fatal and on Sunday one was speechless. In Burnet Co on the North Gabriel on Saturday M. S. Skaggs and Benj Vanhook were murdered. Next day on Fall Creek Llano County attacked and robbed a waggon driven by Newt Jackson of Austin, who escaped by presenting arms bearing [sic] on Nine Indians-
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