69 the Subject we in duty bound as your fellow citizens will ever pray This is the 12th Jany 1850 SMITH
JAMES SHINARD JOHN TAYLOR (Cow house) JOHN TAYLOR (Lampas JOHN PATE (Cow house WILSON LANBE (Cow house) JOSEPH WHEET
WM B. SMITH JAMES GREEN JOEL D. BLAIR JAMES K. BLAIR SOLOMON BLAIR REACE MORRELL JOHN MORRELL JOHN ROBERTS
JAMES D. WHEET CHARLES CURTIS DANIEL SINCLAIR
WM ROBERTS JAMES CROSS RILEY CROSS JACKSON NEIGHBORS ELIJAH RIKENS JAY CHALK WILLIAM KARNES GEORGE KARNS
JOHN BOWEL E. L. MICHNY PRIOR CHILDERS MELVILLE WILKINSON WILSON WHITE THOMAS TRIMMER BURK MILES L. BRYANT
Petition of Citizens
[Endorsed:]
to Governor Bell, praying protection from
Indians on waters of Brazos January 12th, 1850
No. 52 LETTER FROM GEO. DEAS TOP. H. BELL
Head Quarters, 8th Dept. San Antonio Jan 14th 1850
Governor:
I am instructed by General Brooke to inform you that intel- ligence has been received from Fredericksburg which leaves no doubt that the murders which were committed on the 27th Ul- timo, in the neighborhood of Castroville, were the acts of a party of Wichita Indians. Captain Steele, with his company of 2nd Dragoons is to pro- ceed immediately in the direction which these savages have
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