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No. 215
LETTER FROM CAPTAIN JOHN WILLIAMS TO H. R. RUNNELS
San Saba Texas
Jany 4th 1859 Your Excelency H. R. Runnels Dear Sir
Since my Last I have Kept my command amounting to about 75 men Divided into five Squads or parties of about Equal numbers and plased so as to embrace and cover the Country from the old Mission or Stone fort on the San Saba to the Belknap Road on Pecan bayou, a partie of Indians came down and Stole some Horses from the Dawson Settlement and [ ?] Lieutenant Mc- Millin whose report accompanies this letter followed and Suck- seeded in getting back the Horses or nearly all and killed two Indians the Skalp of which I send you by 1st Lieutenant Cowan according to premise I allso send you a Shield a broken bow & case with the arrows and case of one of the Killed Indians. 2nd Lieutenant S. P. Cowan has allso followed a trail from Pecan bayou to the Brasos River as near there to whose report I refer you for perticulers from signs and the best information I believe there is some Indians in the County, but they are hard to Ketch and Having to furnish ourselves with every thing we have but a midling chance Dear Sir the necessetys of the case I hope will justify the means used the cries of the women and Children on this frontier for protection ought to be attended to and must be if we spend all we have in trying to protect the Frontier it is but ruin and if we have it it is the same dire nessiety compels me to the course I am pursuing and I would be proud to have you advise and will act under it if it is possible and this frontier be protected for further perticulars I refer you 1st Lieutenant D. C. Cowan who is the bearer of this.
Most Respectfully Yours his JOHN X
WILLIAMS Capt
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