Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. V

23 promised to have sent on to him some two or three hundred dol- lars which is due him for services heretofore rendered as a sort of sub agent or interpreter. He says he has never recvd. the money. He requests me to mention the subject to you and en- quire when & where he may expect to be paid. Shaw & his son and nephew were enrolled some time since by Capt. Grumbles as members of his company by the consent of Coln. Harney but after the company had been mustered into the service of the U. S. They have not been mustered in. Shaw having declined be- ing mustered by Capt. Howe whom he says insulted him. His services are very valuable and should he not be mustered in be- fore the term expires for which his company were enrolled I hope that it may nevertheless be so ordered that they will draw pay when the company is paid off. I think it quite important to secure his services in future.

Postscript appended to Letter from Gov. Henderson to President Nov. 23d 1846

[Endorsed:]

No. 18 LETTER FROM J. PINCKNEY HENDERSON TO W. L. MARCY Executive Office Austin Texas January l0th/47

Sir

Major Nabors returned to this place a few days since from Torrys trading house where he met the friendly Comanche Chiefs & various other Indian Tribes From them he learned that several bands of Indians consisting of the Muscalaros Essi- quitas Senetaka & others amounting in all to over ten thousand souls had lately come into Texas from the West Side of the Rio Grande and scattered along on the head waters of the Colorado River some being not more than seventy or eighty miles from this place Texas does not wish those Indians to remain in the State and I now 1·espectfully call your attention to the subject that the matter may be laid before the President & such steps taken as may be 1·egarded as most expedient to remove them. If they are permitted to remain any time quiet they will soon

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