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and cattle and stealing our corn Feasting themselves upon the products of our Labor. We Your petitioners have heretofore implored of your Excellency for some protection We have prayed to the Com- manding Officer of the United States in the District for aid Yet our suplication has not been heeded and we are left to suffer in our property while our lives and the lives of our wives and children are every moment in danger from the Merciless Sav- ages who are continually hovering around us and among us shooting our stock etc etc. Your petitioners prays that Your Excellency would forth with cause a company of Rangers to be raised and that Your Excellency station them in the Canon de Uvalde Pass or at some place where they could most Effectually protect our settlements We your petitioners most sincerely and humbly pray for said company JOHN DAVENPORT JOHN M DAVENPORT LEWIS LEE F. C. HILBURN EMERY GIBBONS JOHN M. McCORMICK JOHN M. FENLEY JOEL D FENLEY L. C. KELLEY AARON ANGLIN HENRY H. ROBINSON
WILLIAM TOKE A. JOHNSON RICHARD REILY HUBERT WEYNAND JACOB LAUTER MARRELLI A. TUNGBECKER JOSEPH FINGER JOSE RODRIGUEZ [Illeg.] RODRIGUEZ A GARTEISER JOSEPH SANCHES T. M. WINFF' PHILIPPI KARNER JOSEPH RIBNER
RICHARD M WARE GIDEON THOMPSON JOHN H. RICHARDSON JOHN BEARMORE R. C. MILLER WILSON OBRYANT WILLIAM L SHORES FELIPE GARCIA C. W. KINCHELOE ROBERT KINCHELOE G. W. PATTERSON JOHN C PATTERSON N. M. C. PATTERSON WILLIAM PEPPERS
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