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Should you not have succeeded in making up your company, I have no doubt it can be filled up readily in San Antonio and Castroville, when it is known that a portion of the Company is to be employed in their vicinity, and this too I presume ,vill facilitate your obtaining the necessary supplies. Please let me hear of your movements as often as practicable. Yours with respect EM PEASE [E. M. Pease, Executive Record Book, Number 35, Pages 310-311.J
No. 140
NEWSPAPER ITEM CONCERNING INDIAN DEPREDATIONS [August 6, 1855]
Indian Depredations. Statement.
On the 16th of July, 1855, a party of citizens from Goliad and Karnes counties, Texas, went in pursuit of Indians, who had stolen horses the previous night, from Thomas Lott and Barton Peck, at their residences, above the town of Goliad, south of the San Antonio River. The trail was very plain, and became enlarged by additions from above. The route went. be- tween the heads of the Escondido and Piedra--crossed the Atas- cosa near the mouth of the Torillo--the Frio, a little above the road from San Antonio to Laredo--the Nueces about twenty miles above Fort Ewell-the Rio Grande near the large Spring and Double Hills about halfway between Laredo and Eagle Pass. The party went to Laredo, and there learned that the Lipan tribe, for some time, had been concentrated and established in Mexico, a few miles from the point at which the trail crossed the Rio Grande-and that the number of the tribe was about three hundred; who had about fifteen hundred horses. Many peculiar signs satisfied all the pursuers (some of them familiar with such matters,) that the thieves were certainly Indians. And all the circumstances concur with many other facts, for- merly published, in fixing on these Lipan, many of the recent outrages between the Rio Grande and San Antonio Rivers.
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