369 intercession, so far as to enable them to look among the cattle for estrays of their own. I asked them when the Indian stock should be ready to move or one day on the road (as they professed to be citizens of Bel- knap) I should request of the Agents and commandant of this escort this permission for them-that I should do so as an officer of the State. Cautiously and had no doubt it would be granted as a matter of right. I also advised them to keep within prudent bounds and to do nothing illegal, to which they all assented. No scout of mine has been on the Reserve, nor will be, as a scout, unless the singular course of Major Neighbors in allowing unescorted Indians to leave the Reserve at pleasure should bring about a state of affairs different from that desired by myself, as well as the State. My men necessarily go frequently to the Agency, on busi- ness, but always along the road and directly to Barnards Store, unless personally known to the Agents. I always send an officer with them. As Baylor has left this section of country and gone to his home in Fayette County and no one is in arms under his auspices, I can conjecture nothing more nor less than that party alluded to were some citizens from near Belknap cow hunting. Fully reciprocating your desires for a peaceable termination to these troubles the main difficulty in which is the refusal of Maj Neighbors to restrain the Indians to the Reservation limits or send a responsible white man with them, even if five to one against me,
I am Sir Your Obedient Servant JNO HENRY BROWN Cap Comdg
To Capt J B Plummer Comdr Brazos Agency
F
Brazos Agency Texas July 29th 1859
Sir:
Capt Plummer handed me a letter written by you yesterday in which you say that "two parties of citizens" have reported to
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