Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. V

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JOSIAH GRIFFIN F. F. BLOODWORTH WM. H. JONES RICHARD SIMPSON

D. M. MABRAY Jo. K. WELTON L. H. SCRUTCHFIELD T. E. CHESHER

Petition from Bosque & McLennan County

[Endorsed]

PETITION

To His Excellency 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 repeat- edly attacked by several parties or tribes of wild hostile Indians who have robbed our houses, killed and stolen our Cattle and Horses, purused our people, and otherwise menaced our lives, com- pelling us to seek temporary safety 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 our Countrymen in general, the great necessity of raising immedi- ately with the utmost despatch a Company of Texas Rangers formed of experienced volunteers, to be maintained for a few months or so long as the service may require, for the purpose of patrolling and hunting our border country, of punishing our Sav- age enemies and driving them effectually away from the limits of our exposed and unprotected settlements. Unless this appeal to your Excellency and our Countrymen in general is promptly responded to, before another moon shall have passed, the fate of our devastated homes and murdered families may be held up as an awful example of the willful neg- lect of those in authority whose imperative duty it is to afford protection to the lives and property of ourselves and families. Neills' Creek, Bosque County April 15th 1854. CHAS. B. UNDERHILL J. K. MELTON

MALACHI W. CORBELL JOHN M. CORBELL ISAC RICHARDSON THOMAS MORIS RICHARD GRIFFIN

DAVID McFADDEN WYATT McFADDEN J. T. WATER LEARD DAVIS M. AKINS BENJ. F. STEPHENS

JOHN ROADS JOHN REYWE SPENSER GRIFFIN

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