TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916 15 hard to catch when they find a bunch of horses they take what suits them and kill at least a part of the balance that does not suit them, we have nothing to feed what horses we have left on and the grass is not yet moore than sufficient for them to subsist on. on the evening of the 19th the Indians attacked a young man in my neighbourhood one of them shot through his hat with a gun of some sort. he narrowly escaped in fact if something more is not done for us we are ruined for under existing circumstances we can not plant our crops. If a post could have authority to go out after them we could keep them of[f] the balance while they worked.
Yours Respectfully JOHN WILLIAMS
[Endorsed] John Williams Cherokee Creek
San Saba Co Texas Feby 20th 1860.
No. 12 LETTER FROM J. H. CONNER TO SAM HOUSTON Camp Cave San Saba County February 20th, 1860
To
His Excellency
Sam Houston
Governor of the State
Sir: I have the honor to re- port to your Excellency; that I am at present encamped near a water hole between the Colorado River and Brady's Creek a tributary of the San Saba, and about twenty five miles NW of the town of San Saba and about 6 miles from the extreme settlement on this portion of the frontier: Fifteen miles this side of the city of Austin I dispatched 1st Lieut Washington Hammett with fifteen men, to scout in the direction of Fort Mason and on the tributaries of the Llano, a copy of his report is herewith filed, marked "A" some twenty miles below the town of San Saba I started with a detachment of men to select an eligible location for a Camp north of San Saba Town,-
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