TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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No. 15 PETITION FROM CITIZENS OF SAN SABA COUNTY TO SAM HOUSTON Feb. 29, '60 To his Excellency Sam Houston Governer .of the State of Texas The undersigned citizens of San Saba County, would most respectfully represent to your Excellency that although the India!!s have at various times during the past three years have been depredating upon the Citizens of this ·County. Yet they have never been here in so great numbrs, nor have they manifested such a hostile desposition nor have they been near so bold in committing depredations as they have been within the last two ,.veeks. That about the 15th February 1860 a party of ten Indians attacked a Mr Jackson near the head of Fall Creek in this county and compelled him to leave his waggon from which they took two guns and about two hun- dred dollars worth of ready made clothing and merely saved himself by escaping into a thicket. That about the same time in Lampasas County near the east line of this County, a party of five Indians chased B. A. Neigh- bors for some distance and on the 25th February on the waters •Of Wallace Creek about 12 miles from the Town of San Saba, a party of five Indians chased Mr. James L. Baxer and Jacob Moore near a mile shooting arrows at them continually, and on the 27th February on Richland Creek about (10) Ten miles above the Town of San Saba a party of three Indians made an attack upon Mr Henry Wood and W. D. C. Wood both citizens of San Saba County, near the House of the former whilst they were hunting oxen & chased them into the yard or near the yard of the former and killing the latter who received six arrow shots, five of them mortal, that the foregoing is but a part of the depredations which the Indians are continually committing upon this part of the frontier, that horses are taken and carried of[f] by them almost every day that there is no security for life or property so long as the present state of affairs continue. We would respectfully request your Excellency to grant us the privilege of raising a minute company of Twenty· men to range in this county and that the same may be mustered into service immediately and r.espectfully recommend William Thax-
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