TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1846-18~9
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No. 148 LETTER FROM W. E. JONES TOE. M. PEASE
Austin 22 Sept 1855
His Exy Govr. Pease,
In accordance with your request made while I was here in July, I now attempt to give you a statement of such depredations as have been committed on that portion of the frontier in which I reside, all of which I think may be relied on as substantially true. On t.he 30 August a party of Indians were trailed by a party of Capt. Callahan's Company up the Guadalupe River and overtaken about thirty miles above the San Antonio and Fred- ericksburg Road-Two Indians were wounded and all their horses S-ix in number taken-Among other articles taken from this party was a shirt, apparently suited to a boy 12 or 14 years of age, with holes through as if made by a lance, or arrow.- On 7th Septr another party of Callahan's Company following a trail between the Guadalupe and Medina overtook a party of Indians-One was killed on the spot-one severely wounded and four horses taken- Both of the above statements were received from persons present and acting in each affair. I think that perhaps both have already been noticed in the newspapers. On 31st August, near Smithson's Valley, 16 miles from New Braunfels, four Indians were discovered coming into that Set- tlerr,cnt-Mr Smithson with two or three others pursued on the trail and found the Indians in a ravine roasting a beef they had killed-They made their escape, leaving their horses, bows, arrows & butcher knives-Some of this party were afterwards seen in the mountains two or three times by persons in the neighborhood- On the same day, 31st August, two Indians rode up in front of the residence of Mr. John S. Hodges on Curry's Creek, about 8 O'clock in the morning & drove off four head of horses-not more than 150 yards from the house & in open view of the whole family who were in the gallery of the house-Mr Hodges & Mr Newton accompanied by a negro man immediately gave chase on foot--after following about two miles through a rough & bushy country they came in sight of the Indians, seven in number, with about 20 head of horses herded in a prairie-they
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