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MUSTER ROLLS OF THE TEXAS REVOLUTION
Muster Rolls
Names V.W. Swearingen
No. 92 93 94 95 96 97
Rank Private ,,
Remarks &c
A.P. Jarvis J.W. Foster E.M. Coxs A.W. Bass W. Hardiman
1 of Ward's men; joined Patton's Co. July 15th
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Made his escape from Fannin's Battle, Mar. 1836 One of Miller's men & with his Company witnessed the massacre at Goliad. One of Miller's men who was present at the same time.
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98
Geo. Butler
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M. Ellerson E .G. Coffman B.H. Smith T. Davis Rufus T. Campbell E. Morris Washington Lockhart
99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114
Creed Taylor E. Williams Temple C. Harris D.T. Dunham Andrew J . Click
Francis M. Weathered Sr.
B. Whitehead
Clark M. Harmon FM. Weathered Jr.
115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122
A.J. Tardy
William Weathered James W. Scott M. H. Alexander Samuel Swearengen
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P.B. Scott
Samuel Chance
E. Patterson
At Fannin's massacre at Goliad and escaped.
HERE ENDS THE LIST & ROLL
Endorsed on the back of the foregoing list: NOTE: The principal part of the men on page Nos. 1 & 2, up to No. 63, and some others were mostly discharged about June 15th, 1836, by Captn. Patton & Genl. Rusk. The remainder were discharged by myself & the Col. of the Regiment. They served out their time in the Army and in the fall of 1836 I discharged the last man, and return- ed home to my family. About the 5th of August, Captn. Patton, ordered by the Genl. took ten men of the Company and proceeded to Columbia on Brazos to take charge of President Santa Anna, which he did. Jesse Benton, Jr. THE STATE OF TEXAS } . · COUNTY OF SAN AUGUSTINE Before me, Richard F. Slaughter, an acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the said County and State, on this day personally appeared Jesse Benton Jr. to me well known, and whose signature is hereto subscribed, who being duly sworn by me, states on oath that the within and foregoing list on the 2 sheets within comprises a true and correct return of the men on the Muster Roll of the Columbia Company in the Army of Texas, in 1836, commanded by William H. Patton of the Brazos. Sworn to & Subscribed before me } on this 21st day of June, A.D. 1836 Jesse Benton Jr. R.F. Slaughter, J.P. Received from the hands of the Governor and filed this 10th September, 1856. James C. Wilson - Commissioner [Rubric)
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