TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1846-1859 81 and is now prepared to act 'in the most efficient manner. Hoping that you will regard his services as important as I do myself, I will conclude by repeating that I shall be greatly gratified if you can come over at once and muster him in. Cap't Howe Very respectfully Comdg. Your obt. Servt. San Antonio (signed) A. C. HORTON P.S. I understand a white man was killed by the Indians a few days since between this & the San Marcos, and from all that I can learn, I think they are meditating some mischief-I forgot to mention that the distance from here to Cap't Grumbles' camp is so great, and the road so difficult, that the four or six days allowance of forage, which I bel'ieve Col Grooms is only author- ized to issue at one time, will produce great inconvenience, from the necessity of such frequent transportation. I would be glad, therefore, if Col. G. was authorized to issue to this company, at each time, forage etc sufficient to last for two weeks. A. C. H[ORTON] (J. Pinckney Henderson, Executive Record Book, Number 28, Pages 40-41.]
No. 76 LETTER FROM J.P. HENDERSON TOW. L. MARCY Executive Office
Austin Texas January 10th /47
Sir
Major Nabors [Neighbors] returned to this place a few days since from Torreys trading house where he met the friendly Comanche Chiefs and various other Indian Tribes from them he learned that several bands of Ind'ians consisting of the Mescalero Esquien Senetakas [Senecu] and others amounting in all to over two thousand souls had lately come in Texas from the West side of the Rio Grande and scattered along on the head of the Colorado River some being not more than seventy or eighty miles from this place Texas does not wish those Indians to remain in the State and I now respectfully call your attention to the subject that the matter may be laid before the President and such steps taken as may be regarded as most expediant to
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