Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. V

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PETITION To his Excellency E. M. Pease, Governor of the State of Texas. We the undersigned, inhabitants of the Frontier Counties of Bosque and McLennan, would respectfully represent, that our settlements have within the last two or three weeks been re- peatedly attacked by several parties or tribes of Wild hostile In- dians, who have Robbed our Houses, killed and stollen our horses, pursued our people and menaced our lifes; compelling us to seek temporary security by abandoning our homes and collecting our families together as our only resource until aid and assistance can be sent for our protection. We therefore earnestly urge upon your Excellency, and upon our Countrymen in general, the great necessity of raising imme- diately, with the greatest despatch, a Company of Texas Rangers formed of experienced volunteers to be maintained for a period of twelve months or as long as the service might require for the purpose of scouring through the adjoining bo1·der country and to hunt out and punish our Savage Enemies, and to drive them off effectually from our exposed settlements. Unless this appeal to your Excellency and our countrymen is promptly responded to, before another moon shall have passed, the fate of our devastated homes and murdered Families may be held up to the world as an awful example of the willful neglect of those in authority whose duty it is to afford protection to the lives and property of ourselves and families. Neills' Creek, Bosque County, April 14th 1854 CC. MCCURRY PRESS BRIANT WILLIAM MCCURRY BLACKBERN REESE WM L. MCCURRY EWEL EVRET JOHN T. SACKER WILLIAM EVRET SAMUEL S. SACKER FRANCIS EVRET ANDREW P. SACKER HARRY EVRET WILLIAM C. SACKER R. EVRET H. M. GANDY OLG CANUTESON H. S. MORGAN OLE PEDRSON ISAAC C. GARY PETER SPANGBURG WM. GARY OLE WEIN G. G. GARY CHARELS GVEFTAD T. B. GoODMAN JAMES RINGNES JOHN H. ROBERTSON CLENG PEERSON JOHN A. THOMAS JASPER N. MABRAY THOMAS F. THOMAS JAS. H. MABRAY

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