TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1825-1843
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No. 209 STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT AGAINST GOVERNMENT [October, 1843] The Republic of Texas Dr. to R H Porter To Supplies furnished the Indians from October 1843 to March 20th 1844. to wit Corn-Beef. Bacon and Meal. $291.50 The foregoing is a correct statement of my account against the Govt after giving all just credit. I presented the original a/c to his Excy. Sam Houston who approved and signed the same. and I left it with him to be audited and prepared for pay- ment, but I am informed he has lost the original account and I am therefore Compelled to make out this statement in order to have the claim against Govt auditt"?d. Witness March 14th 1845J---- H. J. Jarrett. R. H. PORTER
No. 210 STATEMENT OF TRAVIS G. WRIGHT [November 8, 1842]
Republic of Texas Red River County
The statement of Travis G Wright, a citizen of Texas, certifies that he has read a copy of a letter written by P. P. Pitchlynn to the Secretary of War of the United States of the North, in rela- tion to Gaines claim by the Indians upon Red River, and claim- ing the restoration of said ferries taken from them unjustly by Texian citizens, and in relation to the charge he states that the Indians having claimed the use and the right to the ferries, he without hesitation, surrendered to them a ferry that he had establised and kept, and that the Indians are now keeping said ferry, and enjoying the [ ?] thereof, situated at the mouth of the Kiowitia river. And he further states that this is the only demand for a restoration of any ferry or ferries that the Indians have made upon Texian citizens, within his knowledge. And he further states that the above mentioned ferry was established
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