TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1825-1843
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Directed: Red Bear Chief of the Caddo. [E1ulu1·.~e,I] Creek Chiefs 5th July 1842
Grand Prairie
To July 20t, 1842 Chiefs of Caddo.
No. 111
LETTER FROM ETHEN STROUD, LEONARD WILLIAMS AND JOSEPH DURST TO SAM HOUSTON [September 4, 1843] To his excellency the President Si: In accordance with your inst.ructions of the Sixth of July in reference to a treaty with the hostile tribes on vur frontiers we the commissioners proceeded to the depo on Boggy [Creek?] in the Chickasaw nation, wr.ere we met a letter from the chief of the Caddo requesting Col. Jones to intercede with Texas for peace, we procured an interview with the bearer of Said letter by the assistance of Col. J. and communicating through the bear- er above refered to, we procured an interview with about twenty of the hostile Indians, where both parties agreed to hold a talk and on the fifteenth day afterwards we met four of the principle chiefs with other head men and warriors of four different tribes at a small Caddo village above the Chickasaw nation there entered into and concluded a treaty with Said tribes as you will See by reference to the articles of Said on the 24th day of August 1842, in addition to Said treaty the Said chiefs head men and warriors entered into Stipulations with the commis- sioners to visit with presents the hostile Indians twenty tribes in number and to assemble the said hostile Indians for the pur- pose of meeting the commissioners with the President for the purpose of entering into a treaty at the Waco Village on the Brazos the 25th of Oct. next and then after counceling Stipulat- ing and treating to remove forthwith to their assigned limits This the 4th day of Sept. 1842 ETHEN STROUD LEONARD WILLIAMS JOSEPH DURST
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