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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1825-1843
No. 48 LIBERTY COllNTY TO :MIRABEAU E. LAMAR [August l, 1839]
The honorable Mirabeau B. Lamar. President of the Republic of Texas.
We your petitioners of the County of Liberty residing in and around the Coushatta Vilages perseiving your address and re- monstrance against the persons commiting the outrage on said Coushatta Indians were not of the Citizens of Liberty County and those imbraced in your address of the 9th of July. Residing in the neighbourhood of said Indians, did interfear in an humble persuasiYe manner to convince the persons imbodied for the pur- pose of Exterminating said Indians, that the said Indfans had done no harm, but were friendly, and we your petitioners are convinced that mistatements has been m~de to your Excellency, and the nomination of an agent Joseph Lindley is not competant, not umlerstanding any Indian language and himself one of the party wishing to drive said Indians and resides forty miles or thereabout from the nearest Village, and your petitioners wish him and the odium removed, imbraced in said address and F. H. Rankin appointed in his stead as agent, believing as we do, that he is the best Agent and interperter in the Republic, and by this complying with this the praer of your petioners, we will remain as in duty bound Aug. 1st 1839 MARTIN JOHNSON
J. W. W. HALL MAT HUBERT GEO. EWING WM. BUTLER
CHARLES REILY JACOB GARNER
WILLIAM THOMPSON WILLIAM F. BOWEN JAMES A. GARNER JOHN P. CLARK M.D. JAS S. GARNER MICHAEL SECREST WASHINGTON J. KNIGHT
A. CHERRY JR. CHAS. TAYi,OR WM DUGAN SAMUEL BASHAM ROBT. L WILLIAMSON A. GARNER
P . .M. MAXWELL THOS BRADLEY AARON ARMSTRONG WM :'.\1cDONALD J.C. DUNLAP ROBERT H. HIBBITTS E~fANUEL CLEMENS DAVID :iVI. CUMMINS JOHN MCALEXANDER A. P. DAVIS [E'11<forsei/] Petition Liberty County August 1st 183!>.
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